Next Generation Graphics Hardware Architectures

Fabrizio Magugliani SE Director, EMEA [email protected]

1 SGI Confidential-Not for Redistribution Agenda

• The ultimate architecture •Driving the technology •SGI® Onyx® 3000 series –InfiniteReality3™ –InfinitePerformance™ •SGI® Onyx® 300 •Silicon Graphics Fuel™ visual workstation •Conclusion •Q&A

SGI Confidential-Not for Redistribution The Ultimate Architecture

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SGI Confidential-Not for Redistribution Driving the Technology

Real-time visualization Large DBs Desktop Throughput and Visualization High Turnaround Throughput SGI® Reality Center™

Silicon Graphics Fuel™ Silicon Graphics® SGI® Origin® 3000 series SGI® Origin® 3800 SGI® Origin® 300 SGI™ Onyx® 3000 series Octane2® SGI® Onyx® 3800 SGI® Onyx® 300 (IRIX) (IRIX®) (IRIX) (IRIX) Distributed memory Shared memory

SGI Confidential-Not for Redistribution SGI™ Onyx® 3000 Series

• SGI Onyx 3000 series with InfiniteReality® graphics

IntroducedIntroduced JulyJuly 2000 2000

• The industry’s highest quality graphics • Revolutionary NUMAflex™ modular computing design with integrated graphics

SGI Confidential-Not for Redistribution InfiniteReality™ Performance, Flexibility, and Quality

SGI Confidential-Not for Redistribution InfiniteReality™ Versatile Frame Buffer

Displays

Frame Buffer

SGI Confidential-Not for Redistribution InfiniteReality™ Versatile Frame Buffer

SGI Confidential-Not for Redistribution InfiniteReality™ Reality Center™

Multichannels are easy! Even in Edge-Blended Configurations

SGI Confidential-Not for Redistribution InfiniteReality™ Virtual Reality Rooms Multiple Synchronized Stereo Display Devices

Projector

SGI Onyx

Projector Projector

Tracker Devices

SGI Confidential-Not for Redistribution Introducing InfinitePerformance™ • SGI Onyx 3000 series with InfinitePerformance® graphics •SGI Onyx 3000 series with InfiniteReality® graphics

IntroducedIntroduced JulyJuly 2000 2000

IntroducedIntroduced JanuaryJanuary 2002 2002 • Highest interactive polygon-oriented performance • The industry’s highest quality • Significantly better polygon-oriented graphics performance/price • Revolutionary NUMAflex™ modular • Maintains NUMAflex design computing design with integrated graphics

SGI Confidential-Not for Redistribution SGI® Scalable Graphics Concept Zero-latency method of combining the graphics power of multiple graphics pipes onto a single display scalable graphicscompositor

Graphics Pipe 1

SGI¨ Onyx¨ 3000 Graphics Pipe 2 Graphics Graphics Series Pipe 1 Pipe 2 Shared-Memory Infrastructure Graphics Graphics Graphics Pipe 3 Pipe 4 Pipe 3

Graphics Pipe 4 4-way scaling shown

Zero latency compositing is unique to SGI and enables real-time load-balancing for maximum performance.

SGI Confidential-Not for Redistribution SGI® Scalable Graphics Concept

InfinitePerformance™ graphics is made up of two components.

SGI¨ Onyx¨ 3000 Graphics Graphics Series V-brick Pipe 1 Pipe 2 Shared-Memory Infrastructure Graphics Graphics Pipe 4 Pipe 3

4-way scaling shown V-brick Scalable Graphics Compositor SGI scalable graphics enables applications to scale up to 16 times in both triangles/sec and pixels/sec.

SGI Confidential-Not for Redistribution SGI® Scalable Graphics Concept SGI® 3000 shared-memory architecture supporting multiple independent workstation class graphics pipes.

Graphics Pipe 1

SGI¨ Onyx¨ 3000 Graphics Pipe 2 Series Shared-Memory Infrastructure Graphics Pipe 3

Graphics Pipe 4

Supports multiple independent users Supports multiple display channels in an SGI® Reality Center™

SGI Confidential-Not for Redistribution SGI™ Onyx® 3200 with InfinitePerformance™

• SGI Onyx 3200 supporting 1x IP pipe – Allows short-rack form factor (17U) – Requires two c-bricks (min. 4p, max. 8p) – No scalable graphics compositor!

• Opportunities: – Compute-heavy single-pipe apps – DS-like form-factor requirements – Host requirements above Silicon Graphics® Octane2™ (I/O, RAS) – Examples: imaging, film restoration, CAD preview

SGI Confidential-Not for Redistribution SGI™ Onyx® with InfinitePerformance™

• SGI Onyx 3400 supporting up to 4x IP pipes – Single or multiple tall racks – Independent and/or scalable performance with scalable graphics compositor

• Opportunities: – Compute-heavy visualization – Requirements for solo and/or multipipe – Scalable performance – Examples: • Large-model assembly review • Engineering analysis (Crash and CFD) • Visual serving (many “cheap” pipes on one SSI machine) – Combine HPC with scalable visualization capabilities

SGI Confidential-Not for Redistribution InfinitePerformance™ Features and Benefits

• Highest performance on interactive problems – Scalable single screen performance to over 250M polygons/second and 6G pixels/second • Low cost add-on to compute servers – Leverage scalable system infrastructure for both HPC and visualization – Multiple users share high-performance resources • Power user deskside system – 2x compute performance, 60% better compute price/performance than Silicon Graphics® Onyx2® – 4x compute performance of desktop Silicon Graphics® Octane2™ • Low-cost high-performance VR – Dedicated pipe/screen at 50% of SGI® Onyx® 3000 series with InfiniteReality3™ – Greater system capability, applications availability, and ease of use than a cluster • Incredible solution flexibility – Easily switch between usage modes as workloads change

SGI Confidential-Not for Redistribution InfinitePerformance™ Graphics Features

• Geometry performance at close to 18M L/sec • Fill rate compares to 2RM InfiniteReality3™ pipe (448 Mpixel/sec) • 12-bit per component RGBA • 16-bit Z buffer • 96-bit accumulation buffer • Up to 104MB texture memory • Specular shading • Post-texture lighting • No hardware anti-aliasing

SGI Confidential-Not for Redistribution SGI® Onyx® 3000 Series: Two Graphics Options

InfiniteReality3™ Graphics = Ultimate Visual Realism

Image courtesy of EAI

InfinitePerformance™ Graphics = Ultimate Geometry Performance = Scalable Geometry Performance

Image shows a cross-section from the REVIEW file of the Temelin NPP [Nuclear Power Plant] reactor designed using PDMS [Plant Design Management System]. Screen image courtesy of Ceske Energeticke Zavody a.s. Jadema elektrarna Temelin. SGI Confidential-Not for Redistribution Introducing SGI® Onyx® 300 with InfiniteReality3™ Graphics

• New levels of price/performance • Lower system cost and reduced size • Most modular visualization system on the planet

SGI Confidential-Not for Redistribution The Power Behind the Concept Cost-Effective, Compact NUMAflex™ Computer Platform

C-brick SGI Onyx 300 Compute Module

I-brick

SGI Onyx 3000 SGI Confidential-Not for Redistribution SGI Onyx 300 A Family of Compact High Performance Modules The Ultimate in Flexibility and Investment Protection

Compute Module SGI® TP900 Storage System

NUMAlink™ module

PCI module InfiniteReality3™ Graphics

SGI Confidential-Not for Redistribution Delivering More Power in Less Space

Compact Design Delivers Cost-Effective Technical Computation and Visualization

InfiniteReality3™ Graphics

Geometry Raster Display 2-8 Outputs Engine® Manager(s) Generator

SGI® Onyx® 300 32-processor maximum in a single rack SGI Confidential-Not for Redistribution Cost-Effective Scalability

Up to eight 4RM InfiniteReality3™ graphics pipes Up to 32 MIPS® R14000™ CPUs

SGI® Onyx® 300 with InfiniteReality3

SGI Confidential-Not for Redistribution SGI® Onyx® 300 with InfiniteReality3™ •Cost-effective solutions for seismic Direct Connect and reservoir visualization tasks

•Scalable I/O performance to rapidly load large data sets •Virtually unlimited memory to hold them in memory •Scalable CPUs for feature extraction and processing Visual Serving

SGI Confidential-Not for Redistribution SGI® Onyx® Family Systems

Performance Realism

SGI ® Onyx ® 300 SGI ® Onyx ® 3000 Series SGI® Onyx ® 3000 Series with InfiniteReality3™ with InfiniteReality3™ with InfinitePerformance™ Compact, cost-effective realism Ultimate image quality Fastest interactive geometry performance Lowest InfiniteReality3 entry price Ultimate digital media Unlimited computation SGI Confidential-Not for Redistribution SGI® Onyx® Family Systems

Unique combination of Industry- Flexible Complex Processing Leading Display Data Horse Power Graphics Capabilities

• Interactive photo-realism • Large datasets (9 PB) • 2 to 128 CPUs • Super-high resolution • Fast I/O • Advanced ccNUMA • Fast polygons, fast pixel fill • Multiple displays architecture • CXFS™ File System • Precise color information • VR devices • Low latency • Real-time data • Unlimited geospecific • Stereo • Modular flexibility acquisition terrain flyover • Multiple-mode usage • Large volume visualization Real-time environment Advanced software environment Huge bandwidth to keep it all moving

SGI Confidential-Not for Redistribution Silicon Graphics Fuel™ Visual Workstation

A New level of •Performance •Productivity •Precision on the Desktop

SGI Confidential-Not for Redistribution Fueling a New Level of Performance and Affordability

–New IRIX® workstation line leveraging high- end SGI® 3000 Family architecture

–Includes top-of-the-line VPro™ graphics

–Binary compatibility with current IRIX ensures application availability

–Complementary to Silicon Graphics® O2+™ and Silicon Graphics® Octane2™

SGI Confidential-Not for Redistribution Delivering More Performance at a Lower Price

High-Bandwidth SGI¨ 3000 New Workstation in Power-Packed Form Family Architecture Factor ¥Increased memory and CPU bandwidth ¥Increased secondary cache

New MIPS¨ Processors ¥ 500MHz and 600MHz Single Processor ¥ VPro graphics Industry-Leading VProª Graphics ¥ Up to 4MB L2 cache ¥ 48-bit RGBA, fast geometry performance, large texture memory, ¥ Up to 4GB memory hardware accelerated specular shading ¥Binary compatible

SGI Confidential-Not for Redistribution High-Performance Design on the Desktop Includes existing leading VPro™ graphics Latest MIPS® processors V10 and V12 Dual Channel 2X Graphics Display cache 2–4MB 500MHz option L2 cache 600MHz CPU

200 MHz 64-bit

front side bus 1.6GB/sec 1.6GB/sec 2 External PCI Memory Slots 33 MHz controller 2 External PCI 200 MHz DDR Slots 66 MHz memory Xbridge bandwidth 3.2GB/sec 1.6GB/sec Up to 4GB RAM

Internal SCSI Disk, Networking, etc. SGI Confidential-Not for Redistribution API Support

Transparent OpenGL Multipipe™ Display Scaling

Scalable OpenGL Multipipe SDK APIs OpenGL Optimizer™ OpenGL Performer™

Software Hardware Types of Time, Spatial, Depth, Spatial Scaling Hardware Stereo, Combinations Time and Display SGI Onyx 3000 series InfinitePerformance Graphics Scaling SkyWriter Silicon Graphics® Silicon Graphics® Onyx2® SGI Onyx 3000 series VGXT Onyx® RealityEngine2™ InfiniteReality® InfiniteReality3 2-way 3-way 4-way 8-way 16-way 16-way

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• SGI experience: 10 years with scalable graphics and computing systems means that the SGI™® is solving real problems today

•SGI’s modular system approach means that SGI is rapidly developing the components to revolutionize tomorrow’s workflow

•SGI™ ISV portfolio and software tools mean that customers get up and running quickly

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