Infiniteperformance Graphics Components - Silicon Graphics Origin 3900 User Manual

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Chapter 12
InfinitePerformance Graphics Components
An Origin 3900 server with InfinitePerformance graphics delivers up to 141 million
triangles per second and 3.8 billion pixels per second of sustained performance to a
single display. This performance enables you to interactively manipulate and analyze
complex problems. The InfinitePerformance graphics capabilities combined with the
high-level compute and I/O capabilities of the Origin 3900 server enables you to
complete complex tasks in engineering analysis and scientific visualization in seconds
instead of minutes and in hours instead of days.
Note: Your Origin 3900 server can have InfiniteReality graphics capabilities or
InfinitePerformance graphics capabilities, but not both.
The InfinitePerformance graphics capabilities are provided by the following
components:
• V12 VPro graphics board that provides one graphics pipe.
• V-brick that is a 4U I/O expansion brick with four half-height XIO slots. The V-brick
can house one or two VPro V12 graphics boards.
• Compositor that enables multiple V12 VPro graphics pipes to work simultaneously
on a single visual application.
This chapter describes the function and physical aspects of these InfinitePerformance
graphics components in the following sections:
• "V12 VPro Graphics Board" on page 174
• "V-brick" on page 176
• "Compositor" on page 180
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