SGI® Reality CenterTM Advanced Visualization Facilities
SGI® Reality CenterTM facilities
deliver the highest realism and performance possible today for
collaborative visualization in the widest range of display configurations.
The end result?
You and your colleagues are immersed in your virtual environments
so you can explore, understand, and communicate about your data
in ways not possible in the physical world. Reality Center facilities
help you arrive at better decisions in less time, providing enormous
cost savings while enhancing productivity. You'll gain insight
and reach your goals with greater speed, efficiency, and flexibility
than ever before.
SGI Reality Center facilities are widely relied upon for real-time, highly interactive working sessions for:
- Design review and engineering
- Complex data analysis
- Critical and/or hazardous training
- Sales and marketing
- Scientific research and analysis
- Education and exploration
- Command and control operations
Complete Collaborative and Interactive Solutions
Since SGI opened the world's first Reality Center facility in Reading, England, in 1994, the concept has generated excitement in industry, academia, and the media. The industry pioneer, SGI is the only computer-systems company delivering robust and deployable collaborative visualization solutions. SGI has created solutions to ease your transition to immersive visualization, helping you implement advanced visualization technologies as powerful business tools to complement and dramatically improve your business processes.
The Power of Group Visualization
Visualization is the common language that allows people from different backgrounds, training, and expertise to engage in an immediately productive working session. People can work together to solve problems, understand phenomena, and plan future actions.
SGI Reality Center solutions:
- Enable collaborative decision making
- Expedite insight to complex problems
- Shorten time to market, reduce design costs, and reduce reliance on physical prototypes and experiments
- Eliminate the impracticality, danger, or expense encountered in physical environments
- Demonstrate products, processes, and plans with unparalleled realism
- Allow discovery of unknown phenomena
- Enable intuitive exploration and precise analysis of relationships between variables
- Explore and analyze models and datasets of extremely large scale
SGI® Onyx® Family Systems Bring Application Performance, Extreme Scalability, Investment Protection, and Customization to High-Performance Visualization
The only systems designed from the ground up to support immersive visualization, the SGI® Onyx® family is available in a range of configurations for every level of visual supercomputing. Based on the acclaimed SGI® NUMAflexTM architecture, the SGI Onyx family provides the industry's richest, deepest feature set, including clip-mapping, texture paging, volume rendering, and anti-aliased full-frame HDTV display--the kinds of features required for ultrarealistic, high-performance collaborative simulation. SGI Onyx family systems equip your Reality Center facility with multiple visual display channels and superb media tools such as digital audio, video reference input, optional real-time graphics-to-video, and optional digital video for routing multiple video and audio streams.
Complete Consulting Services to Support Your Facility Integration
SGI offers extensive services to help customers develop and implement immersive visualization solutions. The SGI Reality Center Professional Services team works closely with customers and display vendors to help implement visual computing solutions that maximize return on investment by ensuring successful Reality Center systems integration. We provide complete turnkey solutions, including facility design, installation, integration, custom applications, and operator training. SGI offers the broadest range of solutions to suit a wide variety of budgets and needs.