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Silicon Graphics, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of high performance visual computing systems. The company delivers interactive three-dimensional graphics, digital media and multiprocessing supercomputing technologies to technical, scientific and creative professionals. Its subsidiary, MIPS Technologies, Inc., designs and licenses the industry's leading RISC processor technology for the computer systems and embedded control markets. Silicon Graphics has offices worldwide and headquarters in Mountain View, California.
Team New Zealand & Power Indigo2: Reinventing the Design Process
Winning the America's Cup, the world's most prestigious and demanding yacht race, is no longer a
matter of just putting the best sailors on the water. The race is also decided in the design room,
where technology is coupled with experience to build the fastest boat. So, like many of its manufacturing counterparts,
Team New Zealand turned to the world's most advanced visual computing technology from Silicon
Graphics to meet these challenges.
Ford: Clay-the-Master Meets . . . CAD-the-Master
The automotive styling process being implemented at Ford now begins with hand-drawn or electronic Alias StudioPaint sketches. In an attempt to streamline the design cycle and integrate the stylists' work into the larger engineering and manufacturing picture at Ford, a "CAD-the master" approach is being implemented. Here, computer-generated math data, not clay, will be the master for product design definition.
100 Indy Systems and an Onyx:
Training truckers for the Information Highway
Bell Information Design Centre, a sort of Valhalla disguised as a training facility for communicators, is a retreat for corporate trainees, an incubator for ideas, a software development center, and part of a college campus.
Airborne Industries Doubling design output with Silicon Graphics and AutoCAD
"Our design engineers can construct the finished article in 3D, and then manipulate it in real time from any viewpoint in space, or twist it around from any angle. This is a far easier and more accurate method. We are now able to complete jobs in half the time needed previously when dealing with hand-drawn designs," said David Belton, design engineer at Airborne Industries.
British Aerospace: Geographical Information Systems Research
In the cockpits of today's combat aircraft, aircrew face an array of complex displays, each of which requires their attention. The enormous load of information that pilots and weapons operators need to assimilate and act upon is on the increase and the trend towards single-pilot aircraft means one person is now responsible for map reading, position checking, speed or altitude monitoring, target acquisition and weapons management.
SmithKline Beecham: Silicon Graphics Plays Key Role in New Drug Development
SmithKline Beecham has become one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies discovering new drugs for the treatment of those disorders where current therapy is inadequate. With the assistance of computational methods and visualization systems based on Silicon Graphics computers, medicinal chemists at SmithKline Beecham employ rational drug design to help discover compounds that will generate competitive advantage for the company in the form of new products.
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