Before specialized graphics-processing chips existed, pioneers in the field of visualization used multicore supercomputers to realize data in three dimensions. Today, however, the speed at which supercomputers can process data is rapidly outstripping the speed at which they can input and output that data. Graphics-processing clusters are becoming obsolete.
The Sun Visualization System integrates workstations, servers, networking, interconnects, graphics, and innovative software to provide both scalable and sharable visualization solutions. Based on high performance Sun Fire servers, high speed/low-latency i