Silicon Graphics Company & Product Overview

Rubbermaid, Inc., a leading producer of plastic containers and accessories, uses Silicon Graphics systems to maintain a furious pace of new product development. With one to two new products being created per day, it is essential to quickly evaluate market success before significant tooling investment is made. Rubbermaid creates photorealistic images from CAD models of new product ideas and shows them to focus groups, testing market response before going into production.

Hughes Training, Inc., and Eidetics have developed the Unit Training Device (UTD) used at California's Travis Air Force base to train F-16 pilots in extremely demanding flight maneuvers. The UTD is powered by a Silicon Graphics Onyx (tm) graphics supercomputer. Russ O' Brien of Hughes Training calls Onyx "fantastic." "We have just one visual database -- on Onyx -- feeding the high-resolution out-the-window visual and all the cockpit displays," O'Brien says. "We used to have three computers networked together to do what Onyx is doing for the UTD. Now we have all this supercomputational power -- all these CPUs -- in one computer. And we can add more CPUs to give our customers more functionality downstream."

International Billing Services (IBS) uses Silicon Graphics CHALLENGE servers to manage the printing and distribution of over 60 million billing statements per month. In this mission-critical environment where throughput and reliability are the basis of competitive advantage, Silicon Graphics systems offer the performance and capacity to meet current and future requirements.

R/GA Digital Studios, Inc., uses a network of over 40 Silicon Graphics systems linked between its production facilities in New York and Los Angeles. By using an all-digital approach to image production, and connecting their systems on both coasts through a high-speed Sprint Drums (sm) network, R/GA is able to offer its entertainment and advertising clients greater speed and creative flexibility in film and video production. "The Drums network's ability to connect Silicon Graphics systems at different locations represents the realization of my dream of the virtual studio," says Robert M. Greenberg, Chairman and CEO of R/GA Digital Studios. "That's what makes it so exciting. It's not about R/GA. It's about a completely new way to design and produce images with unlimited creative potential."

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