Friday, February 11, 2000

NVIDIA and SGI's New Babies -- 4:50 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

The folks over at Riva 3D have gotten a scoop on some sweet new Linux-based systems coming down the pipes as a result of NVIDIA and SGI's partnership. Here's the goods:

SGI is getting ready to announce its new LINUX workstation, code named FLASH, which contains...(drum roll please)...the NVIDIA Quadro as the graphics processor!

In addition, they are about to announce a new system which uses a 32MB DDR (probably Quadro again) GPU, and at NAB, they'll roll out two more systems, the first being a dual Intel CPU with a 64MB DDR GPU (again a Quadro most likely).

But the really huge news is the third system that contains 4 Intel CPUs, and a MULTI-GPU being developed by NVIDIA AND SGI. The system reportedly will process 50 million poly's per second!

I wonder how fast it could run Quake 3.... :)

From my perspective, this means that NVIDIA is ready to support Linux in a big way. Hopefully this will make Linux a viable alternative to gaming on Win32 platforms.

News for 02/11/2000

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