Wildcat workstations: systems from both HP and IBM feature 3Dlabs's Wildcat.(IBM Intellistation M Pro, HP Workstation x4000)(Evaluation)

For a number of years, the Wildcat graphics card was considered the de facto standard for OpenGL accelerators. The Wildcat was originally designed by Intergraph, but 3Dlabs purchased the technology a while back and now manufactures the chips and cards. Subsequently, in May of 2002, 3Dlabs was acquired by Creative, maker of the consumer-level Soundblaster card. Sometimes it's hard to keep up on who owns what in this business, but regardless of who's currently producing them, the Wildcat cards are still at the cutting edge of OpenGL performance.

Unlike consumer cards, which are optimized for gaming and DirectX, Wildcats are built from the ground up with OpenGL in ...