Lockheed selects Onyx2 visualization system with InfiniteReality3 for US airforce flight simulatorMountain View 29 January 2001 Lockheed Martin has selected for the U.S. Air Force Air Education and Training Command and the Air Force Research Laboratory, a 24-processor, 10-pipe Silicon Graphics Onyx2 visualization system with InfiniteReality3 graphics subsystem to upgrade the F-16 flight simulators at the Network Training Center facility, Luke Air Force Base, Glendale USA.
Located about 20 miles northwest of Phoenix, Luke Air Force Base is home to
the largest fighter pilot training base in the world. Its mission is to
train F-16 fighter pilots for the U.S. Air Force and its allies.
Approximately 1,000 students annually receive training at Luke, which has
trained more U.S. fighter pilots than any other Air Force base.
With its new 24-processor, 10-pipe Silicon Graphics Onyx2 system, Luke Air
Force Base now has the computing and graphics power to provide
high-fidelity, imagery-based air-to-air and air-to-ground training for F-16
fighter pilots. SGI, Lockheed Martin Services, Inc., Phoenix, and
MultiGen-Paradigm Inc., a Computer Associates company, have
successfully integrated the new displays, projectors and image generator to
provide a dramatic increase in the training fidelity of Luke's F-16
Networked Training Center simulators.
The primary feature of Silicon Graphics Onyx2 with InfiniteReality3 graphics
subsystem is the enhanced ability to handle high-resolution image and
volumetric information through 256MB texture memory and improved
texture-mapping techniques. This represents a fourfold increase over the
64MB texture memory delivered by the previous-generation InfiniteReality2
graphics subsystem, at the same price as InfiniteReality2. InfiniteReality3
continues SGI's drive to increase performance and reduce customer costs.
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