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Graphics industry's workhorses: a look at the power behind today's cutting-edge imagery.(Workstations)

Computer Graphics World

| May 01, 2007 | Moltenbrey, Karen | COPYRIGHT 2007 PennWell Publishing Corp. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

About a decade ago, PC workstations began giving SGI machines a run for their money in what had been, until that time, a single-horse hardware race within the digital content creation market. It didn't take long for these attractively priced alternatives to overtake the expensive O2s and Octanes installed in film and VFX studios, game development facilities, CAD shops, and other locales producing high-end DCC imagery. Presently, professional workstations from Boxx Technologies, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Xi Computer, and others have all but retired the SGI boxes. Not resting on their laurels, professional workstation vendors--working alongside graphics card companies and ...

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