Advanced Visual Systems delivers high-performance multidimensional visualization packages for Sun's UltraSPARC workstations.MENLO PARK Menlo Park. 1 Residential city (1990 pop. 28,040), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1874. Electronic equipment and aerospace products are manufactured in the city. Menlo College and a Stanford Univ. research institute are there. 2 Uninc. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 7, 1995--Advanced Visual Systems, (AVS (Audio Video Coding Standard) A video compression technique developed by Chinese companies and supported by the Chinese government. Expected to provide better compression than MPEG-2, AVS was created to avoid paying royalties to the MPEG licensors, which are outside ) Inc. today raised the performance bar for multidimensional visualization applications by porting AVS/Express and AVS visualization software to Sun Microsystems' new Sun Ultra 1 workstation. By running AVS and AVS/Express on Sun's new high-end workstation, users can achieve on average two to three times the interactive 2D and 3D graphics and geometric rendering performance than on previous Sun platforms. AVS and AVS/Express the leading platform-independent 3D visualization application software are visual programming environments that enable engineers, scientists and business professionals to analyze, manipulate and display large volumes of complex data. As part of porting the software to Sun's new platform, AVS specifically engineered the software to take full advantage of the new UltraSPARC CPU's advanced graphics engine. This new hardware and software combination brings the highest possible multidimensional visualization performance for applications like financial analysis, medical imaging, oil & gas exploration and geographic information systems (GIS). "By delivering AVS multidimensional visualization software on Sun's new workstation, the levels of application performance and functionality are raised to new, unprecedented heights," said Ian Reid Ian Reid is a name shared by several people:
Advanced visualization products explained AVS and AVS/Express provide several features designed for technical and visual data mining database interfaces, advanced business graphics and the ability to integrate AVS/Express displays into existing and new applications. This software is available immediately. Pricing for AVS begins at $6,500. AVS/Express is $25,000 for the first license, with additional licenses priced at $6,000. Advanced Visual Systems Inc., headquartered in Waltham, Mass., is the leading developer of visual intelligence software, interactive multidimensional visualization applications and development tools that transform large amounts of complex data into visual information. Advanced Visual Systems' visual intelligence products deliver insight and competitive advantage to customers in markets such as telecommunications, financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , medical imaging, sales & marketing, aerospace, government research, science & technology, manufacturing and business geographic information systems (GIS) markets. With annual revenues of $6 billion, Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , Inc., provides solutions that enable customers to build and maintain open network computing See ONC. Open Network Computing - (ONC) Sun's network protocols. environments. Widely recognized as a proponent of open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced , the company is involved in the design, manufacture and sale of products, technologies and services for commercial and technical computing. Sun's SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill workstations, multiprocessing servers, SPARC microprocessors, Solaris operating software and ISO-certified service organization each rank No. 1 in the 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). industry. Founded in 1982, Sun is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., and employs more than 14,000 people worldwide. CONTACT: Ian Reid Advanced Visual Systems, Inc. 617-890-4300 E-mail:ianr@avs.com or Glen M. Zimmerman Beaupre & Co. Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most , Inc. 603-436-6690 E-mail: gzimmer@beaupre.com |
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