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To help broadcasters and post production houses as they transition from analog to digital IT-based facilities, and from SD to HD, 2K and 4K resolution material, Silicon Graphics (NYSE:SGI) has introduced an open IT platform designed to bring greater efficiencies to their new digital workflows. The Silicon Graphics Prism platform for Media employs the same architecture as one of the fastest supercomputers in the world, the SGI Altix system at NASA Ames. It also leverages SGI's 20+ years heritage in visualization and management of massive, complex data. Unlike previous generation proprietary systems, the new Silicon Graphics Prism platform delivers the power and performance of multi-pipe visualization using open- source standards and scalable, commodity graphics.
By integrating industry standards-based, 64-bit Intel Itanium 2 processors, the 64-bit Linux scalability found in SGI Altix high- performance server products, and scalable ATI graphics processors (GPUs), SGI offers a system to solve the most demanding content creation and management at a dramatic new price point.
"We envision partnering with non-linear editing, asset management, color grading, video server and other software companies as well as systems integrators to provide the SGI open IT platform as the foundation on which to build their...