The SGI Prism is a series of visualization systems developed and manufactured by SGI. Released in April 2005, the Prism's basic system architecture is based on the Altix 3000 servers, but with the notable inclusion of graphics hardware.
Three models of the SGI Prism exist: the Power, Team and Extreme levels. The Power level supports two to eight Itanium 2 processors, up to 96 GB of memory and two to four graphics pipes. The Team level supports 8 to 16 Itanium 2 processors, up to 192 GB of memory and four to eight graphics pipes. The Extreme level supports 16 to 256 Itanium 2 processors, up to 3 TB of memory and 4 to 16 graphics pipes.
The graphics pipes used in the Prism are ATI FireGL cards based on either the R350 or R420 GPUs.
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