Ciprico Leads With Fibre Channel Expertise at Siggraph 99.MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--August 5, 1999-- Ciprico Inc. (Nasdaq:CPCI See CompactPCI. ) today announced that the focus will be on Fibre Channel technology for digital storage solutions in the Ciprico booth (No. 529) as well as in the booths of key industry partners at the Siggraph 99 Exhibition in the Los Angeles Convention Center The Los Angeles Convention Center (abbreviated LACC) is a convention center in downtown Los Angeles. The LACC hosts annual events such as the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show, and was best known to video games fans as host to E3 until its cessation in 2006. , Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , California, August 10-12. Ciprico was the first to provide a Fibre Channel RAID storage solution industry-wide and now offers a wide range of Fibre Channel JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) A group of hard disks in a computer that are not set up as any type of RAID configuration. They are just a bunch of disks. JBOD - Just a Bunch Of Disks and RAID storage solutions, including the recently-announced FibreSTORE RAID System. Now Ciprico is also the first to offer disk arrays with 50 GB drives, setting a new standard in cost per MB for large-capacity, high-bandwidth digital storage solutions (see "Ciprico First With New High-Performance, High-Capacity Drive Options," August 5, 1999). "Our FibreSTORE Family of Disk Arrays are complete end-to-end Fibre Channel storage solutions," said Robert H. Kill, Ciprico President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "They are next generation technology and reflect the best of everything we've learned about Fibre Channel, bandwidth, performance and value." Ciprico's new FibreSTORE RAID System couples high-bandwidth disk access technology with an on-board cache to deliver continuous, sustainable data rates. This creates the bandwidth to fully-support today's Gigabit interface rates, as well as tomorrow's higher-speed Fibre Channel extensions. "And like our ground-breaking 7000 RAID Series and our FibreSTORE JBOD disk array," said Kill, "the new FibreSTORE RAID System supports all of the Fibre Channel fabric A Fibre Channel fabric (or Fibre Channel switched fabric, FC-SW) is a switched fabric of Fibre Channel devices enabled by a Fibre Channel switch. Fabrics are normally subdivided by Fibre Channel zoning. Each fabric has a name server and provides other services. topologies required by the emerging SAN technologies. We've also taken steps to make the installation process smoother for our customers by pre-configuring our systems in capacities up into the terabytes to work right out of the box." Ciprico's Siggraph '99 booth and demos Siggraph attendees will see Ciprico 7000 Series and FibreSTORE Fibre Channel high-bandwidth storage solutions delivering booth demonstrations for multiple computing platforms. One area will show high sustained bandwidth for real-time playback of uncompressed film resolution, using Ciprico's FibreSTORE JBOD Disk Arrays on an SGI Onyx The SGI Onyx is a series of visualisation systems designed and manufactured by SGI, introduced in 1993 and offered in two models, deskside and rackmount. The Onyx's basic system architecture is based on the SGI Challenge servers, but with the notable inclusion of graphics hardware. 2 platform with film content created with Interactive Effects' Piranha piranha: see characin. piranha or caribe Any of several species of deep-bodied, carnivorous fishes in the genus Serrasalmus (family Characidae), abundant in rivers of eastern and central South America and noted for voracity. editing and compositing software. In another area, Ciprico's 7000 Fibre Channel RAID disk arrays will team up with SGI's Onyx 2 in a powerful storage solution for a mission-critical Geospatial visual mapping application. A FibreSTORE RAID configuration will provide the ultimate performance in SAN workflow productivity as the central shared storage in a multi-platform, heterogeneous 3D and composite effects demonstration. The SAN will use Mountain Gate's CentraVision high-speed file-sharing software and include a mix of SGI's IRIX A Unix-based operating system from SGI that is used in its computer systems from desktop to supercomputer. It is an enhanced version of Unix System V Release 4. IRIX integrates the X Window system with OpenGL, creating the first real time 3D X environment. and NT workstations. Cinesite (Europe) Ltd. is providing advance content from Animal Farm, a Hallmark Entertainment and Turner Network Television Turner Network Television, usually referred to as TNT, is an American cable TV network created by media mogul Ted Turner and currently owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner. production to be released in late 1999. When completed, Animal Farm will have at least 300 animated digital effects Synthetic sounds and animations created in the digital domain. Reverberation, morphing and transitions between video frames are examples. See digital video effects. shots of entirely computer-generated animals. Ciprico's Siggraph 99 partners Siggraph is attended by professionals from all over the world that are interested in seeing the latest technological innovations in computer graphics and creative techniques. Among Ciprico's partners at Siggraph are Cintel Inc., Interactive Effects, SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. , SynaPix and Trimension. Cintel Inc. (booth No. 1755) -- Cintel Inc. will be showing how their C-Reality(TM) film scanning system adapts easily to HDTV (High Definition TV) A set of digital television (DTV) standards that offer the highest resolution and sharpest picture. Although some HDTV sets are available in standard (rather square) screen sizes, the overwhelming majority of sets are wide screen, which eliminates with Flying-Spot Technology and Ciprico's 7000 Series RAID, Fibre Channel bandwidth. Cintel's technology consistently gives film and video professionals the quality needed to optimize their own expertise in the color correcting and editing of any format, whether it be 525, 625, HDTV or 2k files. Interactive Effects (booth No. 1659) -- Interactive Effects will be showing their Piranha HD Visual Effects System for uncompressed real-time playback of rendered HDTV content during production, in an SGI environment using Ciprico's 7000 Series and FibreSTORE disk array digital storage solutions. Interactive Effects' products have been used in over 50 films and are used daily at over 200 TV stations for on-air graphics. SGI (booths No. 1201, 1401) -- Ciprico's Fibre Channel storage solutions are featured throughout SGI's High-Definition Main Stage and Media Serving areas. For example, visitors in SGI's booth will see a glimpse of the Virtual Universe that's being created at the Manhattan American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium The Hayden Planetarium is a public planetarium located on Central Park West, New York City, next to and organizationally part of the American Museum of Natural History. in a demonstration powered by SGI Onyx 2's and Ciprico six 7000 Series RAID Disk Arrays. SynaPix (booth No. 727). -- Ciprico's FibreSTORE JBOD Disk Arrays will be the central disk array storage system for SynaFlex(TM), SynaPix Inc.'s revolutionary 3D analysis, choreography and compositing system. The FibreSTORE disk array will be used to capture uncompressed video and convert live action sequences into a 3D representation of a scene. Trimension (booth No. 2057). -- Trimension will be demonstrating playback of planetary and stellular stel·lu·lar adj. 1. Having the form of a small star. 2. Bespangled with small stars. [From Late Latin st data at 1280 x 1024 resolution, in a dark theatre-like environment. Displayed in real time, the data will be stored on Ciprico's high-bandwidth Fibre Channel 7000 Series RAID disk arrays in a database of some 4 billion stars. About Ciprico Ciprico designs, manufactures and markets high-performance storage solutions and professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. for visual computing and digital media industry leaders throughout the world. Ciprico storage solutions are designed for computing applications requiring high-speed image capture, full image resolution playback, sustained performance and data protection. Ciprico is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. More information about Ciprico is available on the World Wide Web at www.ciprico.com. Copyright (c) 1999 Ciprico - All Rights Reserved. Ciprico is a registered trademark of Ciprico Inc. Product and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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