IRIS performer 2.3 real-time rendering toolkit for Linux

Application developers can now harness the capabilities of this scalable, interactive rendering toolkit while benefiting from the reduced cost and wide availability of the Linux operating system.

The release of IRIS Performer on Linux allows software developers to leverage their investments in existing IRIX operating system-based Performer simulations and databases while supporting emerging Linux operating system-based systems, thus saving considerable time and money. Layered on top of the industry-standard OpenGL® toolkit, IRIS Performer 2.3 for Linux supports the OpenGL graphics library and will run on current Intel® Pentium® systems as well as future IA-32 and IA-64 architecture-based systems.

The international software developer's community has responded to the initial Beta Program release with overwhelming support, generating approximately 11,000 downloads of the pre-released product.

IRIS Performer is a powerful and extensible programming interface for creating real-time visual simulation and other interactive 3D graphics applications. With over eight years of commercial implementation and development, the software provides sophisticated multi-process and multi-channel management and optimization on SGI platforms. It dramatically simplifies development of complex applications such as visual simulation, simulation-based design, interactive entertainment, CAD and architectural walk-through and now provides portability between Linux systems and SGI's range of high-end graphics systems.

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