Acer Chooses Evans & Sutherland Graphics Accelerators For NT Workstations.SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 2, 1999-- E&S Lightning 1200(TM) and E&S Tornado tornado, dark, funnel-shaped cloud containing violently rotating air that develops below a heavy cumulonimbus cloud mass and extends toward the earth. The funnel twists about, rises and falls, and where it reaches the earth causes great destruction. 3000(TM) Earning International Reputation with OEMs Evans & Sutherland (E&S(R)) (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :ESCC ESCC Eastern Shore Community College ESCC East Sussex County Council ESCC Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma ESCC Enhanced Serial Communication(s) Controller ESCC Electrically Self-Calibrating Cavity ) today announced that Acer Acer trees of the family Aceraceae. Acer rubrum ingestion of wilted or dries leaves of this tree causes acute hemolytic anemia characterized by red urine, jaundice, anemia and methemoglobinemia in horses. Computer GmbH, one of the world`s top ten PC manufacturers, will install E&S graphic accelerator boards An add-in board that replaces the existing CPU with a higher performance CPU. See graphics accelerator. in its recently launched AcerProStation 7000 and AcerProStation 5000 workstations. Currently available in Europe, the Intel(R)Pentium(R) III-based AcerProStation workstation line is designed to meet the needs of engineering design professionals. "To create complex 3D-models requires the best in 3D graphics board technology, which we have found with Evans & Sutherland's REALimage technology," said Mirco Krebs, workstations product manager for Acer. "E&S has the industry reputation and quality products that are important to our demanding customers." The "combination of the Acer workstations with E&S REALimage graphics acceleration technology is a win-win for both Acer and Evans & Sutherland," said Pratish Shah, E&S Workstation Graphics director of marketing. "We are confident that the success of AcerProStation 7000 and AcerProStation 5000 workstations in Europe will expand E&S's relationship with Acer in the future." Currently available in Europe only, the AcerProStation 5000 and 7000 workstations support both the E&S Lightning 1200 and the E&S Tornado 3000 graphics accelerators 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. . Lightning 1200 is offered as a standard feature on the 5000 model with the E&S Tornado 3000 as an option. Tornado 3000 is standard on the 7000 workstation with Lightning 1200 available as an option. In a recent review conducted by Germany's 3D Live Magazine, the AcerProStation 7000 with E&S Tornado 3000 was awarded six stars, the publication's top rating. E&S Tornado 3000 for High Performance The combination of the E&S Tornado 3000 graphics board and the dual-processing AcerProStation 7000 workstation provides design engineers with the high performance needed to easily create complex 3D-models using CAD/CAM CAD/CAM in full computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing. Integration of design and manufacturing into a system under direct control of digital computers. , visualization, and animation software packages. The E&S Tornado 3000, the company's most powerful graphics board, is based on E&S's REALimage(R) 3000 technology. REALimage technology provides advanced graphics features needed by Acer's workstation customers: --Extra texture memory Memory on the display adapter used to hold the texture maps. See texture mapping. --Up to five million primitives per second --Support for sustained pixel fill rates of 100 Megapixels per second for both bilinear bi·lin·e·ar adj. Linear with respect to each of two variables or positions. Used of functions or equations. Adj. 1. bilinear - linear with respect to each of two variables or positions and trilinear tri·lin·e·ar adj. Relating to, having, or bounded by three lines. textured polygons --Dual screen support --E&S Dynamicgeometry(TM) software drivers, which fully exploit the Intel(R)Pentium(R) III processors' Streaming SIMD extensions (architecture) Streaming SIMD Extensions - (SSE) Intel Corporation's floating point SIMD extention of their Pentium microprocessor architecture. SSE was formerly know as KNI (Katmai New Instructions). It was introduced with the Pentium III. Intel Pentium III. ipoem. E&S Lightning 1200 for Cost-Effective Performance Acer selected the E&S Lightning 1200 graphics board for its AcerProStation 5000 and its AcerProstation 7000 workstations for its powerful, yet cost-effective OpenGL acceleration performance for mid-range 2D and 3D applications. Key benefits to design engineers include: --Up to 4 million triangles per second --Support for sustained textured pixel fill rates of 70 Megapixels per second --E&S Dynamicgeometry software drivers, which fully exploit Intel(R)Pentium(R) III processors' Streaming SIMD extensions About The Acer Group Established in 1976, Acer is the world's third-largest PC manufacturer, offering a broad selection of industry-leading high-end servers, multimedia PCs, notebooks, computer peripherals, components and semiconductors. The Acer Group employs more than 28,000 people in 120 enterprises spanning 37 countries worldwide, supporting dealers and distributors in over 100 countries. The Acer Group's revenue in 1998 was US$6.7 billion. For more information about the Acer Group, please visit our website at http://www.acer.com. About Evans & Sutherland Evans & Sutherland develops and manufactures hardware and software to produce highly realistic 3D images. E&S business units deliver high-quality visual systems for simulation and training in defense and commercial applications, graphics systems for high-performance workstations, and related applications throughout the world. Through its acquisition of San Jose-based AccelGraphics in June 1998, E&S expanded its workstation graphics offerings to include board-level products. Visit the E&S web page at www.es.com. E&S is a registered trademark, and E&S Tornado 3000, E&S Lightning 1200, and DYNAMICgeometry are trademarks of Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation Salt Lake City, Utah For ships of the United States Navy of the same name, see . Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake, or its initials, S.L.C. . All other trade names or marks are the properties of their respective owners. |
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