AccelGraphics Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Company announce certification of the HP Vectra XU PC with the AG300 3D Graphics Accelerator for Pro/ENGINEER.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 17, 1995--AccelGraphics Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Company Wednesday announced certification by Parametric Technology Corp. of the AG300 Graphics Accelerator A display adapter that performs a specialized set of graphics functions to render an image on screen. Today, all display adapters provide basic rendering functions in hardware, but many have graphics processing units (GPUs) that are sophisticated computers. for the HP Vectra XU PC family of personal computers for use in the 3D mechanical CAD marketplace with Pro/ENGINEER running under Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. . The HP Vectra PC/AG300 combination is available immediately through HP resellers. In addition, HP and AccelGraphics will be launching a series of joint marketing activities including advertising and technical reseller recruitment initiatives. Jeffrey Schnabel, product manger manger cattle trough which served as crib for Christ. [N.T.: Luke 2:7] See : Nativity for desktop personal computers at HP stated, "HP's Vectra XU PC is becoming the most widely accepted high-end desktop PC for corporate customers. The AG300 accelerator card, combined with the HP Vectra XU, provides an excellent solution for the design automation segments of this market. We're setting a new standard for price-performance in the high-end desktop marketplace, making it possible for our CAD focused resellers to provide a low-cost, integrated workstation-class 3D graphics solution for designers and engineers." Resellers who carry HP's Vectra XU line of PCs and the AG300 3D graphics accelerator will be able to offer an integrated solution to their customers for easy access to the highest performance solution in the industry for 3D OpenGL-based applications, such as Pro/ENGINEER, running under Windows NT. "As always, Rand Technologies strives to bring the `Best in Class' products to the mechanical, engineering and manufacturing markets. We believe that the combination of the HP Vectra PC and the AccelGraphics AG300 3D graphics accelerator are in fact that `Best of Class' combination," said Joe Oswald, director of computer systems, at Rand Technologies. "Users are amazed a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. at both the raw performance and price-performance that they get from this NT based combination. This combination is very competitive with significantly more expensive UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). solutions -- and for a 64 MB, 1GB system at less than $8,000, we are finding that corporations worldwide are finding that this type of high-performance, cost-effective platform is a very compelling reason for migrating from UNIX to NT on the PC," said Greg Milliken, vice president of marketing for AccelGraphics. "The availability of increasingly more powerful Windows NT systems from key system vendors like Hewlett-Packard, coupled with 3D OpenGL graphics accelerators like the AG300 from AccelGraphics, delivers an aggressive price-performance platform for Pro/ENGINEER customers," said Olimpio DeMarco, manager of strategic relations for Parametric Technology Corp. The AG300's powerful graphics processor is capable of up to 205K Gouraud shaded triangles per second and up to 1 million 3D vectors per second. Furthermore, the AG300's innovative architecture allows performance to scale with the power of the main CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. , directly leveraging the industry-leading performance of the Intel Pentium processor. Faster processors deliver proportionately faster graphics performance, lengthening lengthening (lengkˑ·the·ning), n the use of various massage or muscle energy techniques to relax and stretch muscle and connective tissue. the useful life of the AG300 and providing investment protection in the rapidly changing computer industry. "The advent of powerful 3D, OpenGL graphics accelerators from AccelGraphics coupled with the high-performance Hewlett-Packard Vectra XU 5/90 Pentium-based system will enable most traditional workstation users to enjoy significantly lower costs of ownership while improving their productivity. This combination of products clearly demonstrates that the Intel Architecture is ready for workstation users," stated Richard Bowles, director of workstation market development at Intel. The AG300 is designed to take advantage of high-speed processors like Intel's Pentium and maturing PC operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , such as Windows NT, as well as standard graphics Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), such as OpenGL. In addition to providing optimized support for powerful 3D mechanical design applications like Pro/ENGINEER, the AG300's accelerated drivers for Windows NT provide support for thousands of popular applications like word processors and spreadsheets. The AG300 from AccelGraphics paves the way for a family of graphics accelerators targeted at professional 3D markets. Its highly optimized 3D pipeline provides affordable, high-performance graphics using the growing OpenGL standard supported by Microsoft Corp., initially with Windows NT, but growing with the support of OpenGL in Windows 95 later this year. About the Companies AccelGraphics Inc. AccelGraphics Inc. develops, manufactures and markets high-performance three-dimensional (3D) graphics and image processing image processing Set of computational techniques for analyzing, enhancing, compressing, and reconstructing images. Its main components are importing, in which an image is captured through scanning or digital photography; analysis and manipulation of the image, accomplished accelerators for computer-aided design computer-aided design (CAD) or computer-aided design and drafting (CADD), form of automation that helps designers prepare drawings, specifications, parts lists, and other design-related elements using special graphics- and calculations-intensive and engineering and other technical markets. Sales distribution is managed through select VARs, OEMs and technical distributors with expertise in these target markets. AccelGraphics' 3D graphics accelerators enable technical professionals to visualize 3D data such as designs and models of mechanical parts and assemblies quickly and interactively, thereby dramatically enhancing user productivity when using 3D applications. The ActionGraphics line of higher-performance 3D graphics accelerators deliver high-end workstation graphics performance on platforms supporting the standard, high-bandwidth PCI bus PCI bus - Peripheral Component Interconnect . Supported systems include those based on Intel Corp.'s Pentium processor, as well as other RISC processors RISC processor [Reduced Instruction Set Computer], computer arithmetic-logic unit that uses a minimal instruction set, emphasizing the instructions used most often and optimizing them for the fastest possible execution. like DEC's Alpha AXP The brand name Digital gave to its first family of Alpha-based computers. In 1998, Digital was acquired by Compaq. See Alpha. , MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) The execution speed of a computer. For example, .5 MIPS is 500,000 instructions per second; 100 MIPS is a hundred million instructions per second. , and PowerPC. AccelGraphics Inc. is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and can be reached at 800/444-5699. Hewlett-Packard Company Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global manufacturer of computing, communications and measurement products and services recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 98,200 employees and had revenue of $25 billion in its 1994 fiscal year. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: AccelGraphics, ActionGraphics and AG300 are trademarks of AccelGraphics Inc. All other trademarks, service marks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective companies. CONTACT: AccelGraphics Inc. Greg Milliken, 408/467-5021 or 800/444-5699 |
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