SGI Proprietary Introducing Silicon Graphics ® Onyx4 ™ UltimateVision ™ System.

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Introducing Silicon Graphics® Onyx4™ UltimateVision™ System

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Agenda

Onyx4 Market

Introducing Next-Generation Onyx®

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SGI Enabling New Markets

• Geometry Engine®

• Flat shading• Multiprocessing

• Texturing

• 3D texture• Volume rendering• Dynamic video

resolution

• Mipmapping• Anti-aliasing

Year 1983 1987 1991 1992 1993 1996 1999 2001 2003

SGI® HARDWARE INNOVATION

NEWMARKETSENABLED

SGI SYSTEM

IRIS® 1000 IRIS 4D™ Power Series™VGXT

SkyWriter™ Onyx2® InfiniteReality®

Onyx® RealityEngine™

IRIS GL™

ImageVision Library®

OpenGL®

• Multipipe• Genlocking

• Compositor

• Extreme scaling

OpenGL Performer™

Open Inventor™

OpenGLOptimizer™

OpenGLVolumizer™

OpenGLShader™

OpenGLMultipipe™

OpenGLVizserver™

Scaling APIs

Innovation in shading

SGI SOFTWARE INNOVATION

Onyx® 3000 InfinitePerformance™

Onyx4Ultimate Vision

• Chemistry 3D modeling• Scientific visualization• Research (molecular modeling)• CAD

• Visual simulation• Hollywood special effects

• Medical• Energy visualization• 3D geophysical modeling• Nintendo 64®

Molecules courtesy of Tripos Inc; Engine courtesy of PSA, Aechelon Technology; Heart courtesy of University Hospital of Rotterdam and Duke University; Seismic image courtesy of Magic Earth, LLC.

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Problems Are Getting Increasingly Complex over Time

Bumper Bumper, hood, engine, wheels Entire car

Crash dummy Organ damageE-crash dummy

Car image courtesy of EAI; Torso image courtesy of SCI Institute, NLM, Theoretical Biophysics Group of the Beckman Institute at UIUC; Crash image courtesy of Livermore Software Technology Corporation

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Introducing the Silicon Graphics® Onyx4™ UltimateVision™ System

World’s most scalable visualization system• Double the scalability—up to 32 pipelines and 64

processors; 16x more scalable than nearest competitor• Proven visualization environment

Unparalleled capability • Award-winning NUMAflex™ high-bandwidth, scalable,

shared-memory architecture, combined with industry-standard graphics components

• Powerful new rendering features like programmable shaders

• Hundreds of utilities and applications

Compact and affordable • 8x the performance, 5x smaller and 1/5 the price

Image courtesy of Laboratory for Atomospheres, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

More Performance, More Accessible to More Users

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Solving bigger and more complex problems• Visualize larger data sets, in greater detail,

with better interactivity

Gaining new insights on today's andtomorrow's problems

• New rendering techniques vastly improve image quality and performance

New level of affordability with better price/performance

• Bringing elite lab capability to teams and small companies

• Developing a new realm of power user

Images courtesy of Landmark Graphics, Daimler-Chrysler, and EPL Productions

Onyx4™ UltimateVision™ Raising the Bar in Visualization

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Onyx4™ UltimateVision™ Product Lineup

PowerPower User Visualization

Users with complex data and large data sets beyond

workstation abilities

2 CPUs/2 GPUs -> 8 CPUs/ 4 GPUs

LP $86K–$210K

TeamSmall Group Visualization

Groups with complex data and large data sets requiring collaboration to make better

decisions

8 CPUs/4 GPUs -> 16 CPUs/ 8 GPUs

LP $256K–$475K

ExtremeUltimate Visualization Capability

Problems with vast data sets, heavy computational needs, high-resolution

environments

16CPUs/8 GPUs -> 64 CPUs/32 GPUsCustom bids > 64 CPUs/32 GPUs

LP $570K +

One-fifth the

price of

Onyx®

InfiniteRealit

y®

Up to 40x Price/Performance Improvement over Onyx InfiniteReality

Image courtesy of Laboratory for Atomospheres, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

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Moving from a fixed rendering path …

Images courtesy of Pratt and Whitney Canada and Magic Earth, LLC

… to a scalable and programmable rendering path

Application accelerators

Geometry

Onyx4™ UltimateVision™ Changing the Application Paradigm

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Voyager Graphics Abilities

The Visualization Engine to Drive Innovation Forward... Programmable Vertex and Pixel processing (shaders)

• New realism capabilities• significant increase in poly performance • host functions can be offloaded to GPU

Multi-sample anti-aliasing and stereo• Better fidelity in images

Floating-point textures and pixels• Greater precision for improved image quality• Computational precision

High fill rates and transform rates

256MB of on-board memory

All Provide Increased Insight into Your Data !!

Image courtesy of SCI Institute

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Digital Media I/O

Available :• DM3—SD/HD video I/O with video breakout box (VBOB)• DM6—SD only video I/O

Available after :• DM5—HDGVO• DM7—SDGVO

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Innovation Centers around Software

Vertex Shader• Self-animated geometry

Pixel Shader• Real-time cinematic effects• Hardware-accelerated mathematical operations

Floating-point precision in the pipeline

High-quality anti-aliasing equivalent to 4subsample

Higher order surfacesImages courtesy of EPL Productions and SCI Institute

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World-Leading Visualization Capabilities

Features Benefits

Industry-leading NUMAflex™architecture

Provides high bandwidth for maximum throughputand high productivity computing

Scalable CPU, I/O, memory, storage,graphics

Enables systems to be built with the exact amount ofresources required without running into limitations

Unique graphics compositingarchitecture

Focuses many graphics pipelines on a single task

Compatible with previous Onyx®

systemsRuns all current applications; supports OpenGL®

APIs

High fill rates and transform rates Delivers the performance to render today’s largestdata sets with the scalability to visualize tomorrow’s

Programmable vertex and pixelprocessing (shaders)

Facillitates a new level of insight spawned by newvisualization algorithms

Floating-point textures and pixels Supports the greater precision required for newvisualization algorithms

l Multisample anti-aliasing and stereo Better image fidelity; removes distracting visualanomalies

Fully synchronized graphics pipelines Creates fully immersive environments withoutdistracting and disruptive image tearing

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Onyx4 Performance

Voyager vsIR 350 IP Onyx4 IR IP

Configuration 4 CPU, 1 x 2RM 16 CPU, 4 Pipe 16 CPU, 8 Pipe

Immediate Mode -- best case real 7 M poly/s 45 M p/s 56 M p/s 800% 110% -- App typical 5 M p/s 30 M p/s 30 M p/s 600% 100%Display Listed Cached vertex object -- best case real 10 M p/sec 72 M p/s 400 M p/s 4,000% 600% -- App typical 7 M p/s 54 M p/s 200 M p/s 2,800% 350%Anti-aliasing Very high quality None == IR 4ss ~Equal BetterStereo High quality Low Quality High Quality Equal BetterHigh-order surfaces ---- ---- 40-80M polys/s imm mode Better BetterAnimated objects 5M p/s via CPU 25M p/s via CPU 150M p/s small models Better BetterCube-mapping No No Yes Better BetterBump-mapping Slow multipass No Yes 3,200% N/AMulti-texture Multi-pass Multipass Yes 3,200% 800%Cumulative texture 1024 MB ~400 MB ~1,600 MB 140% 400%Cumulative pipe b/w ~300 MB/s ~1,600 MB/s ~1,600 MB/s 500% 100%Cumulative Tex Fill ~800 MP/s (with 4ssAA) ~400 MP/s (no AA) ~9,600 MB/s (4ss AA) 1,200% 2,400%Cumulative Voxel Fill ~400 MV/s 0 MV/s ~1,600 MV/s (up to 4,000) 400% N/AShading Slow, ok fidelity Ltd fidelity Many new features coming !!! !!!

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Onyx4 Porting

Makes Porting of Code Simple• ISVs are excited about the technology & capabilities

• Most OpenGL® 1.1 or 1.2 code running on existing SGI® machines will just work (few minor exceptions)

• Time to Port existing features minimal in many cases

• Additional time needed to take advantage of unique capabilities

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API Software is a Key Element

OpenGL Performer• Vertex and fragment programs & cliptexture emulation

OpenGL Multipipe SDK• Taking advantage of multiple pipes

OpenGL Shader• ISL back-end single pass optimizations

OpenGL Volumizer• TLUTs & volume shading

Image courtesy of Fakespace Systems, Inc., Division, and Motor Coach International. CAVE ® registered trademark is held by the University of Illinois Board of Trustees.

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– Moderate to expensive– Large form factors– Proprietary

Onyx® Value Over Clusters

+ Fully configured systems starting at competitive price to Clusters

+ High-density form factorsMore Performance, More Accessibility

to More Users

Clusters+ Cheap+ Industry standard + High display list performance+ Good for “embarrassingly

parallel” problems

Onyx+ High scalability—scale up+ Large shared memory and I/O handling+ Large visualization application base + Robust software productivity tools+ Easy to program and administer+ Reliable IRIX® OS platform for graphics+ Highest immediate or display list

performance

– Limited to 2GB memory space – Cumbersome to program – High administration costs– Few applications for visualization– Difficult to scale for large problems– Reliability risks

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Competitive Landscape

SUN The HPC Wanna-be with no graphicsXVR-4000 aka“4 dogs with a golden harness” is a miserable excuse for a graphics cardLike 2 miserable pipes with low performance is meant to be a high end system ???No applications. No fill rate. No shading. No hope

HP The least compatible, least competitive cluster on the planet No ability to interact with data (80MB/s shared between all pipes for updates)Voyager has 200MB of Dlist, and much higher multi-pipe Dlist update rates than SLS3D on SV6SV7 will have IA64, ATI / NV so will have better graphics than SV6, but fewer applicationsVoyager beats them on price at every level, and provides a more complete solution

IBM Sorry, we don’t do graphicsNice CPU, shame about the pipe.No graphics performance, No applications No chance

E&S Aren’t they out of business yet ??SimFusion 5000 is a nice graphics card for cluster business provided you don’t need today’s GPUsNo ability to keep up with GPU spinsMore expensive than Voyager for many solutions, even with our compositorNo future No current GPUs Not a problem

Clusters In a recession there’s no time for science projectsNo ability to handle real data setsA false economy that can’t be defended against Voyager pricesDefinitely an issue in Vis Sim, but fight the usual suspects on program risk not performance specs

“So on your $500k simulator, you’re saving $20k to incur sparing issues, and program risk …. I admire your balls”

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Onyx4 Performancevs. Onyx 3 Systems

Vs InfiniteReality Better Capability, Affordability• Significant performance increase for any given price• Equivalent per-pipe immediate mode polygon performance• FSAA equivalent for virtually all uses (Voyager 6ss > IR 4ss)• Tremendous polygon performance for DisplayLists • New features will emerge based on shading innovation

Vs InfinitePerformance Better Fidelity, New Features• Better capability at any price• Full feature set (FSAA, good stereo, 3D textures)• Single pipe immediate mode apps will be slower on Voyager than IP• New features will emerge significantly differentiating from IP

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IRToday: for production

sites when:

• max poly performance is required

• conservative cust wants to min risk

• cust willing to pay for upgrade to next gen syst (whole syst swap)

Today: for production sites when:

• cust requires specific IR features (single pipe max FSAA fill rate, 1GB texture)

• custom/unusual video formats (avail on Voyager later)

• conservative cust wants to min risk

• cust willing to pay for next gen syst

Today for: • in-house or certified apps,

or can get on early access• customer research and

development platform• customers with price/perf

targets IP/IR cannot meet• early adopters/ customers

looking at long term new features ( max capacity on multipipe apps,vertex/ pixel shading, 3D textures, texture size, AA…)

Tomorrow for:• same as above• production sites as apps

get certified

Onyx4IP

Onyx4 When to sell it

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Agenda

Onyx4 Market

Introducing Next-Generation Onyx®

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Onyx4™ UltimateVision™

Key Markets

• Molecular modeling• Molecular dynamics

and simulation• Science centers &

museums• Grid visualization• Medical

• Simulation and training• Command-and-control

centers• Homeland security and

antiterrorism

• HD film and image postprocessing

• Editing and compositingFilm mastering and restoration

• Broadcast graphics

• Styling• Digital mock-up

(DMU)• MCAE visualization• Design review

• Seismic interpretation

• Reservoir management

• Team rooms

Sciences

Image courtesy of Molecular Simulations Inc.

Government

Image courtesy of Space Imaging

Media

Courtesy of Blockbuster Entertainmentand Tippett Studios

Image courtesy of BMW and ESI Group

Energy

GeoSec 3D image provided by CogniSeis

Manufacturing

Laying the Foundation for New Markets

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Onyx4 Some key deals in the pipe

Los Alamos National Labs• 34 pipe system to power 8x4 wall / open CAVE 8 pipe in June, ramping to 34 in Dec• Beat out clusters based on ability to actually do work

EDS / Nissan• 2+ IR Onyx systems, switching to Voyager when s/w certified• Recovered deal from SV7 based on performance at price-point, Voyager architecture

P&G• 3 deals, covering retail viz, CFD (in CAVE), volume viz• Winning deal from clusters based on architecture providing solid, achievable results

Peugot • Wall, likely to be 4 channel per screen• Recovered deal from Q3D / HP based on ability to deliver real performance, fidelity

Nasa Ames FFC• Shift from IR deal stretched on $$$ deal to solid Voyager deal• Voyager offers price performance, and safe bet vs clusters

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Styling, Design Review, and Sales and Marketing AppsTarget power users, small teams, full Reality Center® facilitiesMassive increase in model complexity and better fidelity (esp. interior styling)

Digital Mock-Up (DMU)Target applications with large geometry perf requirements New techniques and advanced features for increased perf (shaders)

MCAE VisTarget power users, small teams, full Reality Center facilitiesMassive increase in performance at all prices, with good fidelity stereo

VANLonger-term opportunity, but brings down cost per user

VoyagerKey Opportunities: Manufacturing

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Sci Vis, Chem Pharm, Science Centers/ Museums, Medical

Multi-channel opportunities: • Target power walls, Caves etc or high-density monitors

Scalable visualization opportunities:• Target customers using clusters or CPU only rendering tools • National labs, national resources, or visualization luminary sites

Voyager Value Ability to drive many channels without need to manage clusterVisualization scalability -

• Scale graphics to solve your problems without increasing host programming effort Cost effective

• Scale host (I/O, CPU) to address issues other than graphics without graphics expenseNew features

• For better performance (programmable shaders, fragment programming models)Fully compatible, stable, scalable MIPS-IRIX environment

VoyagerKey Opportunities: Sciences

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Seismic Interpretation, Reservoir Management

Target when customer is more focused on longer term features and performance

Target when customer is more focused on price/perf than near term perf

Target in-house apps and apps as they become certified

VoyagerKey Opportunities: Energy

Voyager Value Cost effective -- most affordable high-resolution volumes out thereLess texture memory per pipe (~200MB vs. ~1GB on IR)TMP required for single pipe environments (but cost-point is attractive)Faster reservoir “flood fills” through on-GPU calculationQuicker “what if” modeling of seismic scenariosPotential for complete interpretation on the GPU for extreme interactivity

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Voyager ValueScalable visualization for powerwall or abutted flat display environments Small footprint and great price/performanceSingle system image – more efficient than multiple indiv systems or clustersScalable I/O bandwidth – visualization data can co-exist with server dataCrisp image qualityOnyx class performance with commodity graphics – where ISVs are investing and innovating

VoyagerKey Opportunities: Government

Decision Support CentersTarget system integrators such as Raytheon, General

Dynamics, SAIC, etc

Vis SimTarget US Defense lab such as AFRL, ARL, and NRLTarget customers interested in advanced performance features

like vertex/ pixel shading

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Broadcast Show customers that multi-pipe capabilities are next generation

of graphics performanceTarget customers who

• Want MIPS/ IRIX stability• Are interested in advanced performance features

Post ProductionSlow migration : CY04 application availability

Voyager Value Better price/perf – lower price entry pointsScalability – graphics and I/O provides superior performance and

higher resolutionLeverage growing performance in OpenGL commodity cards –

where ISVs are investing and innovating

VoyagerKey Opportunities: Media

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Onyx4 Adoption Factors

Early Adoption FactorsApplication Areas Industry ISV

AdoptionMultipipe

Apps Today?Critical Features for each

Application AreaVoyager

MeetsSci Vis (CAE) Sciences Fast Yes Stereo, performance, RC*Styling Review MFG Fast Yes Shading, AA, textures, RCMCAE Vis MFG Med Yes Stereo, performance, RC*Digital Mock-Up (DMU) MFG Med Yes Stereo, performance, RCTraining/ Engineering Simulation (Flight,Ground)

Defense Med Yes Image quality, uptime, loadbalancing, multichannel display

Decision Support Centers (DSC) Defense Med Yes Multi-media, interoperability, RCMuseum/ Science Center Sciences Med Yes Image quality, uptime, load

balancing, stereo, volumetricrendering, large textures, RC

Grid Visualization Sciences Med Yes VanSci Vis (Molecular Modeling) Sciences Slow Yes Stereo, performanceMedical (Imaging, Digital OR) Sciences Slow Yes Stereo, volumetric rendering,

VANHigh-res Film/Image post processing, Edit &Composite

Media Slow --- Image processing, colorprecision, Compositing

Broadcast Graphics Media Med Yes AA, GVOSeismic Analysis Energy Slow Yes Stereo, volumetric rendering,

large textures, RC*Reservoir Analysis Energy Slow Yes Stereo, volumetric rendering,

large textures, RC*

Early Transition

Late Transition

* Reality Center required sometimes

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Competition – HP SV6

- HP fx10 그래픽 기반의 클러스터 - 2 CPU Master Node 와 2 CPU/fx10 그래픽 카드 장착 Slave

Node

- 3 년 이상이 지난 그래픽 카드 - Onyx Infinite Performance 성능보다도 뒤짐 - Anti-Aliasing 이 지원 안되고 필요시 Compostitor 를 사용 Compositor 는 성능 저하와 가격 상승을 유발 - Demo 장비 일정 기간 무상 대여 정책 - 아직 전세계적으로 성공적인 Reference 가 없음

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Competition – E&S

- 오랜 역사를 가진 PC-IG 시장의 선두 주자 - 자체 그래픽 카드를 버리고 ATI 사의 그래픽 카드 사용

예정 - 베델물산이 국내 Distributor

민항기 시뮬레이터 , 공군 항공기 시뮬레이터 주력 - KCEI 사가 E&S SimFusion 제품 , 공군 항공기 시뮬레이터

주력 - 타 시장에서는 활동적이지 않음 - Harmony, ESIG, Ensemble 등은 고가 제품 - SimFusion 은 채널당 대략 3,000 만원 정도에 납품

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Competition – Quantum3D

- 1997 년에 설립된 임직원 130 여명의 소규모 PC-IG 기업 - 자체 그래픽 카드를 버리고 NVidia 사의 그래픽 카드 사용

예정 - 한국 소프트 스페이스가 국내 Distributor

- Dist. 이외에도 3 개 정도의 회사가 대리점 활동 - 민간 / 군용 시뮬레이터 주력 - PC-IG 기반의 가상현실시장에서도 활동 - AAlchemy 는 채널당 3,000 만원 , Independence 는 5,000 만원

정도 에 납품

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Competition – Others

- Dell Cluster

- 조립 PC Cluster

- 기타 소규모 PC-IG 업체 국내 대리점

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Onyx4 Market - Manufacturing

Prospect - 제조 산업의 Reality Center

- DMU Navigator 용 장비 - 시뮬레이션 & 훈련용 그래픽 장비 - Plant Work Thru

Competition - HP 가 시장 진입 노력중 - PC-IG 는 어플리케이션 지원문제가 있음

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Onyx4 Market - Science & Edu

Prospect - 대규모 과학계산 데이터 가시화 장비 - 대학의 가상현실 연구센터 - 신약 개발을 위한 가시화 장비 - 가상 박물관 - 가상 천문대 등의 과학센터 - 가상 수술 , CT, MRI 등의 Medical Imaging

Competition - PC-IG 가 가격을 무기로 적극 공세 - Quantum3D, Dell Cluster

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Onyx4 Market - Gov. & Defense

Prospect - 무기체계 시뮬레이션 장비 - C4I 상황실 - 워게임용 그래픽 장비 - 가상현실 기반 훈련 시설

Competition - Quantum3D

- E & S

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Onyx4 Market - Media

Prospect - HD 디지털 방송 장비 - HD Post Production

- 2K Film Mastering

- 가상 스튜디오 - Compositing & Editing

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Summary

Silicon Graphics® Onyx4™ UltimateVision™ Visualization System

World’s most scalable visualization system—40x the price/performance

Solves system bandwidth limitations of PCs and clusters

Raising the bar in visualization

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