SGI and Aechelon deliver new jet simulator visualization system to US NavyMountain View 30 Nov 99 Indra Sistemas, S.A., prime contractor for the Visual Upgrade Program, awarded Aechelon Technology Option I of the USMC AV-8B Visual Upgrade Program in a re-compete of a contract that had been previously awarded to another image generator supplier. Aechelon Technologies won the new contract using a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS), turn-key image generation system developed by Aechelon and based on SGI's Silicon Graphics® Onyx2® workstation for supercomputing and Aechelon's C-Nova and C-Radiant software products. Using a 24-processor Onyx2 system with eight InfiniteReality2 graphics subsystems - six for the Out-The-Window (OTW) display and two for sensor/weapons channels -- the new image generation system for the AV-8B simulator is the most powerful, photo-realistic image generator available on the market today, updating all high resolution (1600 x 1280 OTW) channels at a fixed 60Hz frame rate. The AV-8B image generator offers additional breakthrough performances as the first immersive jet simulator to provide 100 percent image correlation at the texel level for Radar, Night Vision Goggles (NVG), Forward-Looking InfraRed (FLIR) and Out-The-Window views, and sets a new benchmark with the use of an extremely large imagery database of geo-specific, photo-derived images for an area in excess of 1,000,000 square kilometers. The Camber Radar ToolkitTM software directly imports data from the sensor database ensuring absolute correlation and no loss of fidelity. In addition to superior performance, the typical 24-month production cycle for a visual system was reduced by more than 50 percent. SGI and Aechelon gained preliminary acceptance for the system in less than six months' time. In addition, the completed AV-8B simulator is expected to be delivered less than one year from contract award.
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