SGI INTRODUCES LINUX VERSION OF INDUSTRY-LEADING VISUAL SIMULATION API.IRIS Performer 2.3 Real-Time Rendering Toolkit For Linux Available Free Workstation maker 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. has announced immediate availability of IRIS Performer 2.3 for Linux, a real-time rendering toolkit for Intel processor-based systems running Linux. IRIS Performer is SGI's flagship high-performance graphics software toolkit on 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 SGI says the additional version of the product on Linux underscores the company's goal of driving graphics technology across the full spectrum of pricepoints. The release of IRIS Performer on Linux allows software developers to leverage their investments in existing IRIX operating system-based Performer simulations and databases while supporting emerging Linux- based systems. Layered on top of the OpenGL toolkit, IRIS Performer 2.3 for Linux supports the OpenGL graphics library and will run on current Intel Pentium systems as well as future IA-32 and IA-64 architecture-based systems. The software is available at no cost at www.sgi.com/software/performer/linux.html. "The Performer API (Application Programming Interface) A language and message format used by an application program to communicate with the operating system or some other control program such as a database management system (DBMS) or communications protocol. provides a powerful, flexible base for application development environments like MultiGen-Paradigm's Vega," says Elizabeth Smith Elizabeth Smith is a Scottish Conservative Party politician, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for Mid Scotland and Fife. • • , vice president of Engineering at MultiGen-Paradigm Inc. "The porting of Performer to Linux offers a tremendous benefit to the industry by opening these capabilities up to the full range of price- performance solutions. We are excited about SGI's direction with Performer and Linux." IRIS Performer is an extensible programming Extensible programming is a term used in computer science to describe a style of computer programming that focuses on mechanisms to extend the programming language(s), compiler and runtime environment. interface for creating real-time visual simulation and other interactive 3D graphics applications. Originally developed by SGI, OpenGL is an industry standard API for high-performance 3D graphics and visualization applications and is licensed and available by every major computer graphics hardware vendor for every computer operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. . |
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