DID YOU KNOW?
*Of the 15 major automotive companies worldwide, all are relying on SGITM high-performance computing and visualization solutions to help them meet today's global market challenges. Visit: SGI Manufacturing-Automotive site
*48% of the X-ray computed tomography scanners and 33% of the magnetic resonance imaging scanners around the world are controlled by SGITM workstations.
*Professor Stephen Hawking (Cambridge University) is using a 64-CPU Silicon Graphics® Onyx2® system to model the history of the universe, from the first fractions of a second after the Big Bang right through to the present day, some 10 billion years later.
* A Silicon Graphics® Onyx2® computer drives the new C6 Virtual Reality System at Iowa State University, perhaps the most advanced six-sided, three-dimensional, full-immersion, synthetic wireless environment in the world.
*EMBRAER, a Brazilian airplane manufacturer, is using an SGITM Reality CenterTM facility to shorten the time it takes to develop a new airplane from five years to less than 38 months, a 37% reduction.
*SGITM technology drives the world's first full-scale virtual reality air traffic control tower, which is used for safety training and airport planning.
*Defender Team New Zealand and challenger Team Prada competed for the America's Cup 2000 title using SGITM solutions for both boat design and flow visualizations.
*The Weather Channel's forecasting system includes two SGITM OriginTM 2000 servers and 35 Silicon Graphics O2® workstations running Weather Services International WxPro software. The Weather Channel has the ability to provide a local forecast to 10,000 different locations by putting a modified O2 server in some 10,000 different cable head ends scattered throughout the country.
*SGITM technology provides Denver's gigantic new Pepsi Center sports complex with unprecedented broadcast-quality video and e-commerce applications.
*The State of Texas used an SGI high-performance server to uncover $97 million in healthcare fraud.
*The world's largest petroleum reservoir simulation system ever installed, commissioned by the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, is powered by an SGITM OriginTM 2000 server.
*SGITM technology powers the world's largest real-time, immersive, three-dimensional, intergalactic ride at the Hayden Planetarium.
*SGI technology supports Travelocity.com, one of the most popular one-stop travel sites on the Internet.
SGI servers are being used to handle U.S. Census 2000 data.
*Hong Kong's largest-selling Chinese-language newspaper, Apple Daily, uses SGI technology for both its printed and its Web versions.
*The virtual first-down line seen during the SuperBowl was created with SGI technology. |
