From Chemistry to Manufacturing and Design, we have industry-specific solutions designed to help you process more work in less time, achieve insights sooner, shorten the discovery process, and get products to market faster.

AEC (Architecture, Engineering and Construction)

Silicon Graphics and our partners take plant design, imaging and walkthroughs to a whole new level. With Silicon Graphics systems, you can take advantage of high polygon counts, superior texture mapping capabilities, and strong compute-power that will enable you to develop photo-realistic plant walkthroughs.

Chemistry and Biological Sciences

With compute and database performance breakthroughs big enough to bring supercomputer-class power closer to chemist desktops, Silicon Graphics is enabling new modeling, chemical information analysis, data mining, and processing capabilities that are revolutionizing the way chemists work.

The formula for success in marketing has always been: know your customer. But chances are your customers now are more distant and nameless than ever. Knowing what they want, not to mention how to shape your business accordingly, has never been more difficult. By using Silicon Graphics data mining tools, you can effectively evaluate vast amounts of data, enabling quick identification of patterns, trends, and new paradigms for competition.

Engineering Analysis applications require advanced visualization for model mesh generation, results visualization and system animation to drive Computational Fluid Dynamics or Computational Structural Mechanics solvers. Silicon Graphics' combination of extremely high-performance graphics plus fast floating-point speeds provides the needed solutions to companies utilizing Analytical software in their manufacturing, design, and R&D endeavors.

In the entertainment industry, Silicon Graphics' name is synonymous with making dreams become reality. Silicon Studio is Silicon Graphics' subsidiary that delivers authoring and production solutions based on Silicon Graphics systems to the entertainment and interactive media industries. Interactive Digital Solutions (IDS) is the joint venture company of AT&T, Silicon Graphics, and Time Warner. Interactive Digital Solutions creates software for use by cable television systems, telephone companies and private network providers worldwide.

Silicon Graphics recently announced the Silicon Exchange initiative, an integrated solution suite of software and hardware for financial service institutions. Silicon Exchange combines third-party graphical software and innovative financial risk management technologies with Silicon graphics visual and high-performance computing systems, database servers, and advanced software tools for a complete financial services solution.

Silicon Graphics systems are the only computers capable of meeting all the needs of an oil company from low-end desktop workstations to multiprocessor supercomputers. With the industry trend toward 3D visualization, Silicon Graphics systems are second to none for Exploration and Production applications. For the mining industry, our workstations provide the graphics and compute performance not available from PCs.

For centuries, time-consuming and expensive field surveys have provided mapmakers with their only sources of data. Today, the increasing availability of photographic and satellite image data is overwhelming the mapping and GIS community. Silicon Graphics systems and software solutions enable you to reduce data capture and map updating costs through high-performance image manipulation and visualization.

Graphics Arts is an industry in transformation - moving from analog to digital, and from proprietary to open systems. Silicon Graphics technology is driving much of that change. With image-rich capabilities and the fastest image manipulation available on a computer system, Silicon Graphics is emerging as a leader in this growing industry.

Silicon Graphics technology helps students and educators push the limits of intellectual growth. We work closely with schools that thrive on research, exploration, and discovery by helping them acquire knowledge with the latest and greatest technology. Silicon Graphics has devoted resources and developed initiatives specifically for the needs of Higher Education.

SiliconWorks is the most advanced 3D visual modeling environment available for manufacturing operations. By providing an integrated offering of computers and software, SiliconWorks revolutionizes the way companies design, manufacture, market, and maintain products. It supports the entire project life cycle with a single platform for increased individual innovation, enhanced workgroup collaboration, and product design validation.

Volume visualization is rapidly becoming the preferred tool in medial diagnosis and planning where understanding anatomical features and their inter-relationships is critical. Creating these interactive 3D views used to be too costly. Silicon Graphics meets these complex visualization requirements of the medical community. Indigo2 IMPACT integrates 2D and 3D interactive imaging and graphics features that deliver unparalleled capabilities for medical imaging applications.

As an application developer, you need to deliver products of the future into the hands of end users today. You need to create applications that are so innovative and compelling that they form a whole new category--Killer Apps. From concept to delivery, the Silicon Graphics Developer Magic(tm) environment provides you with the tools and libraries you need to create these media-rich applications.

The World Wide Web (WWW) is transforming the computer industry as well as many other industries, including publishing, advertising, and retail. WebFORCE is a family of computer systems from Silicon Graphics that provide everything you need to create and serve a world-class Web site. WebFORCE is the only solution that allows a company to both create and serve content for the Web on one integrated system.