The Wildcat VPUs are the industry's first graphics processors that are programmable from high-order surfaces through to anti-aliased framebuffer pixels with highly efficient SIMD scalar processor arrays replacing hardwired logic and inflexible register-combiners at critical sections in a highly optimized
graphics pipeline. This programmability enables acceleration of non-traditional algorithms such as wavelet-based decompression, ray-tracing engines and RenderMan-like photo-realistic renderers.
With the ability to scale from four to 32 CPUs and drive up to eight full
graphics pipelines and eight simultaneous graphics users, the SGI Onyx 3400 is designed to meet the most demanding and changing needs of customers such as the U.S.
Oxygen VX1's highly optimized
graphics pipeline can also accept and process up to 11 million polygons per second.
Number Nine's graphics card uses a dual
graphics pipeline and dedicated digital path from the graphics card to the display, delivering superior image quality and consistency for smooth video-conferencing, full-screen MPEG video, professional applications or game development.
Silicon Graphics Prism systems scale to 16
graphics pipelines and 512 processors.
By directly connecting FGPAs to global shared memory in Silicon Graphics Prism, RASC allows application developers to program to the best of three building blocks offered by processors,
graphics pipelines, and FPGAs.
Scaling up to 16
graphics pipelines and 512 processors, the Silicon Graphics Prism family offers many times the visualization capability of any currently available computing system.