Maximum Throughput Inc. (www.max-t.com), a provider of high performance networked storage and media management solutions, announced today the immediate availability of its Xstoner software for Linux -based systems from discreet . Xstoner is a client- server software application and networking utility that connects PCs and Macs with IRIX based, and now Linux based, discreet advanced systems offerings.
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Malaysia seriously needs to boost the contribution made by local multimedia content development industries to its gross domestic product (GDP), said the Multimedia Development Corporation on Tuesday……………
The CADC has a Virtual Reality Centre with a 12ft high curved, cylindrical screen and three DLP (digital light processor) projectors for viewing virtual reality presentations in 3D; Creative Multimedia Lab with a server farm, storage area network, computer hardware and audio-visual equipment; and a High Performance Computing facility featuring an SGI Onyx 3800 computer for handling complex 3D computer animations.
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Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today announced its award-winning SGI(R) Altix(R) 3000 system has beaten comparable servers from IBM, Cray and Sun on performance tests that comprise the new HPC Challenge Benchmark. The results reveal that SGI Altix delivers as much as eight times the performance of IBM servers and four times the performance of Cray supercomputers in key categories.
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