Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Silicon Graphics Inc. announced that it will ship a new Intel Itanium-based Linux workstation that it claimed to be the most powerful of its kind in the world.
The new SGI Prism will cost $30,000 and be available on November 8, the company said. The powerful system is expected to be used by the scientific, medical and energy communities.
The goal of the new machine was to create an affordable means of providing high performance. SGI's Prism is available in full and half-rack configurations, and it can currently support up to sixteen 1.6 gigahertz Itanium processors and four ATI Technologies Inc.'s FireGL graphics cards.
Eventually the Prism will be able to handle up to 512 Itanium processors and 16 graphics cards, according to the company. Each of the graphics cards handles resolutions up to 3820 by 2480 pixels.
By: DocMemory
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