SGI Offers New Generation in Visualization Solutions

By DE Editors

SGI (Sunnyvale, CA) launched its first entry in the Virtu solutions family, a new generation of SGI visualization systems. The SGI Virtu VN200 is designed to power the performance visualization needs of today’s HPC and commercial business users.

The Virtu VN200 solution brings a new level of productivity, flexibility, power, and accuracy to engineers, scientists, and creative professionals, says the company. It accelerates the adoption of visualization within environments that must process today’s large data sets. The Virtu VN200 solution, combined with patented SGI intellectual property, empowers users to analyze visual models in a centralized environment and then view their simulations anywhere.

Results can be viewed locally, or delivered seamlessly to any geographic location and virtually any device. Individual users have access to compute power that can process large data sets with increased accuracy, while teams can view and manipulate models in real-time — powering true, real-time collaboration.

SGI visualization technology has been developed, enhanced, and field-proven in more than 700 HPC visualization environments.

The SGI Virtu VN200 integrates hardware, software, and services into a high-density, highly scalable visualization solution specifically designed for performance graphics environments. The new solution is designed to add visualization capabilities to the full line of SGI Altix, Altix XE, and Altix ICE systems.

Factory-integrated and available as a modular cluster node, the Virtu VN200 features the latest generation of NVIDIA Quadro FX visual computing technology. SGI and NVIDIA are collaborating on visualization technologies to power SGI advanced visualization capabilities for use in future SGI Virtu family solutions.

SGI Virtu VN200 can either be integrated into a compute cluster environment or as part of custom visualization systems and consulting services provided by SGI Professional Services.

Priced from $10,575, SGI’s Virtu VN200 node is available with two Intel Xeon E5420 processors, 8GB of memory, and an NVIDIA Quadro FX5600 GPU.

For information, visit SGI Virtu VN200.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.