The Silicon Graphics 4D/240GTX superworkstation

Author

Akeley, Kurt

Author_Institution

Silicon Graphics Comput. Syst., Mountain View, CA, USA

Volume

9

Issue

4

fYear

1989

fDate

7/1/1989 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

71

Lastpage

83

Abstract

A class of machines known both as superworkstations and graphics supercomputers has become available. These workstations provide computing performance previously available only on supercomputers and graphics performance at levels never before available. The author presents a model that differentiates graphics architectures on the basis of graphics computation partitioning and places superworkstation architectures within the framework. He then presents the reasoning that resulted in the architecture of the Silicon Graphics 4D/240GTX superworkstation. The architecture and performance of the 4D/240GTX are discussed.<>

Keywords

computer evaluation; computer graphic equipment; computer graphics; mainframes; parallel architectures; workstations; Silicon Graphics 4D/240GTX superworkstation; computing performance; graphics architectures; graphics computation partitioning; graphics performance; graphics supercomputers; superworkstation architectures; Central Processing Unit; Computer architecture; Computer graphics; Displays; Hardware; Monitoring; Pixel; Silicon; Supercomputers; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0272-1716

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/38.31466

Filename

31466