Product category: Design and Development Hardware
News Release from: Concurrent Computer Corp | Subject: ImaGen
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 3 May 2004
Visual servers speeds graphics development
High-end image generation, once achievable only on large, costly, dedicated visual systems, is now available on Concurrent ImaGen Linux-based servers employing COTS graphics technology
High-end image generation (IG), once achievable only on large, costly, dedicated visual systems, is now available on Concurrent ImaGen Linux-based servers employing commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) graphics technology. Concurrent's ImaGen is claimed as the ideal imaging platform for today's simulation and modelling applications that require enhanced realism and the ability to process very large amounts of input data.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 3 May 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Typical ImaGen imaging applications include civil and military simulation, mission planning, homeland security, scientific and medical visualisation, architectural design, energy exploration and entertainment.
ImaGen servers can also be used with Concurrent's iHawk host multiprocessors to provide a complete training system platform with the highest levels of computer-generated image quality and fidelity.
Concurrent's ImaGen features the latest, industry-standard components from leading graphics suppliers, ensuring that application developers will have access to the best possible COTS IG solutions.
ImaGen servers feature multiple Intel Xeon processors and a range of tower or rack-mount enclosures.
ImaGen can be configured with a choice of powerful dual-monitor-capable graphics controllers such as those offered by Nvidia, ATI and 3DLabs.
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Loaded with popular 3D visualisation software like Multigen-Paradigm's Vega Prime, DiSTI's GL Studio, OpenGL and OpenSceneGraph, ImaGen is the most flexible high-performance Linux-based graphics platform available today.
ImaGen servers are powered by Concurrent's RedHawk Linux real-time operating system.
RedHawk Linux, is also featured on Concurrent iHawk multiprocessors, the industry's leading Linux environment for deterministic, real-time applications.
RedHawk is compatible with the popular Red Hat Linux distribution.
Any number of ImaGen image generation servers can be linked together to produce a single unified output image to any desired level of photorealism.
For example, the power of individual ImaGen servers can be assigned to render specific subsets of an image in parallel.
Subset images are automatically assembled by Orad VR-X compositor hardware to produce a total image in unprecedented aggregate speeds of up to 1.3 billion polygons and 21 billion pixels per second.
ImaGen servers support a variety of image combining modes such as sample division for anti-aliasing, time division, image division, eye division and volume division for large rendering applications.
ImaGen servers offer a full range of video synchronisation capabilities.
Commercial and military flight, maritime and driving simulators often require multiple displays to provide photorealistic views of an environment as seen from a cockpit, window or control panel.
ImaGen framelock features can provide a seamless viewing experience in these multiple display applications.
ImaGen genlock functionality enables synchronisation with standard video signal formats or house-sync signals providing a powerful solution for display, video debrief and compositing.
"ImaGen leverages COTS products to provide high-end visualisation and graphics performance", said Ken Jackson, Concurrent Vice President of Business Development.
"We are pleased to provide a powerful, expandable and easily upgradeable IG solution to our customers in the simulation and training industries".
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