To cover the ongoing Athens Olympic Games, Danish Broadcasting purchased a broadcast system from Silicon Graphics.
This allows its sports and news teams to work with a smaller clone extension of the complete digital workflow environment they use in Copenhagen. Danish Broadcasting whose newsroom of tomorrow was designed by SGI to meet its specifications for a digital workflow regardless of location, conceived the idea of a “digital TV station in a box” last October as it began preparations for Olympics coverage.
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The aerodynamics team accelerated its work with computational fluid dynamics (CFD), advanced visualization, and scale-model wind-tunnel development to augment traditional full-scale wind-tunnel and on-track testing. This combination of processes has since become the standard for DaimlerChrysler race programs and commercial cars…..
This time, the development team used Computational Dynamics’ Star-CD software to conduct several multi-car simulations. Star-CD generated smaller model sizes and allowed for testing in steady-state mode, which provided faster solutions than in transient mode. The simulations ran on Silicon Graphics Origin 2000 supercomputers over 24 hours using eight CPUs.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI), a global leader in high-performance computing, storage and advanced visualization has announced original software developer (OSD) distribution agreements with ICIDO (say: I see I do), and VirCinity. These two are the first in a new OSD visualization software initiative from SGI that enables independent software vendors (ISVs) to focus on innovation and product differentiation instead of the details of scene graphs and volume visualization. OSDs will now be able to build SGI’s cross-platform OpenGL Performer(TM) and OpenGL Volumizer(TM) application programming interfaces (APIs) into their applications and distribute them as a complete solution on systems running the IRIX(R), Linux(R) and Windows(R) operating systems.
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MONTREAL, Aug. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Discreet, a division of Autodesk, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADSK) today announced powerful new versions of its real-time compositing and visual effects systems, inferno(R) 6, flame(R) 9 and flint(R) 9, for feature film and television post-production and graphics.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) and Voltaire today announced at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, (Booth 381) that University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute has selected SGI(R) Altix(R) 350 with Voltaire industry-leading interconnect solutions for its mid-range technical computing system. The university selected SGI Altix 350 server nodes and Voltaire ISR 9024 InfiniBand switch routers to build 64-bit scalable Linux(R) OS-based clusters.
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