Onyx 3400 visualisation system will power Israeli Air Force UH-60/CH-53 helicopter simulatorMountain View 24 April 2001 A 24-processor SGI Onyx 3400 system with six graphics pipelines will drive the state-of-the-art HAWST, which features roll-in/roll-out cockpits to provide the Israeli Air Force with the ability to train both UH-60 and CH-53 crews in the simulator. When one cockpit is in use in the HAWST, the other cockpit can be operated in parallel as a flight-training device. The simulator will be delivered and ready for training in early 2004.
Designed to simultaneously process 3D graphics, 2D imagery and video data, the
SGI Onyx 3000 series scales from
single-user systems to those that combine the ultimate in supercomputing and
visualisation technologies. Only the SGI Onyx 3000 series of high-performance
graphics systems has the power and real time visualisation capability to
concurrently process imagery, video, 3D terrain and geo-spatial data.
The SGI Onyx 3000 series is the third-generation implementation of the
revolutionary SGI NUMA architecture. This tightly coupled architecture with
inherent scaling of system and graphics bandwidth is central to the series'
breakthrough visual performance. The SGI NUMA architecture increases memory
bandwidth and reduces memory latency.
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