lui@CS.UCLA.EDU (03/29/88)
Does anyone know about any research/papers on high speed architectures for
computer graphics computations? For instance, DEC has recently announced
the VaxStation 8000 and Texas Instruments has had their graphics chip out
for a while.
Stephen Lui
ARPA: lui@cs.ucla.edu
UUCP: ...!{cepu,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!luijmb@patton.SGI.COM (Jim Barton) (03/30/88)
In article <10712@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>, lui@CS.UCLA.EDU writes: > Does anyone know about any research/papers on high speed architectures for > computer graphics computations? For instance, DEC has recently announced > the VaxStation 8000 and Texas Instruments has had their graphics chip out > for a while. > > > Stephen Lui > > ARPA: lui@cs.ucla.edu > UUCP: ...!{cepu,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!lui Call up Silicon Graphics and ask for the technical brief on the 4D70GT graphics superworkstation. First customer ship was yesterday (yes, that means you can really get one). 100 MFlops of graphics horsepower, 10 VAXMips of compute power and 96 bitplanes (32 bits RGB and alpha double buffered plus a 24 bit Z-buffer plus speciality planes for window manager and hardware clipping support). All for under $100K. -- Jim Barton Silicon Graphics Computing Systems "UNIX: Live Free Or Die!" jmb@sgi.sgi.com, sgi!jmb@decwrl.dec.com, ...{decwrl,sun}!sgi!jmb -- Disclaimer: Sure I'm proud of the beast! I worked on it, after all.
harri@sky.COM (Harri Rautiainen) (03/31/88)
In article <10712@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> lui@CS.UCLA.EDU (Stephen Lui) writes: >Does anyone know about any research/papers on high speed architectures for >computer graphics computations? For instance, DEC has recently announced >the VaxStation 8000 and Texas Instruments has had their graphics chip out >for a while. > > SKY Computers in Lowell, Mass., makes array processors for SUN, microVAX, VME-bus and PC-AT bus systems. Array processors are often used to speed up graphics and imaging applications. You may want to contact SKY's West Coast reg'l office: Tel: (714) 474-1940 Harri Rautiainen