SGI Visualisation Systems... Good for Maya and what else?

In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.0901071358220.22563-100000 at pinhead.binfone.com>, JP Hindin <jplist2008 at kiwigeek.com> writes: me The University of Utah was using these until recently for high-end visualization. Boeing most likely used them for flight simulator type uses like the F-15 built by McDonnell Douglasi (Boeing absorbed them in 1997). SGI machines still beat out PCs on I/O bandwidth and some other qualities, so these large O2K or O3K machines are not without current commercial users. However, PCs and the Cell broadband engine are giving them a run for their money and its much more cost effective to use more compact equipment for these things. Only certain applications where the I/O and timing guarantees are important make sense for the big SGI iron anymore. Of course, SGI has completely abandoned that market anyway, so you'd be using these machines in 'legacy' mode these days and preparing some sort of replacement setup for when they die. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html<http://www.xmission.com/%7Elegalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>