[geeks] For Dave M - Fscking Suits

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Sun Mar 10 23:26:52 CST 2002


On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 06:52:37PM -0500, Sridhar the POWERful wrote:

> For E&S, you have to look for mil-spec stuff.  It's all custom stuff.
> The IBM RGB512VV is a card with four processors accelerating the full
> OpenGL and GraPHIGS systems with a total of a shade less than 1.6 GFLOPS.
> It has 8MB SRAM cache, 128 MB VRAM, and 1GB DRAM.  I believe that the DRAM
> is used for textures, and the VRAM is used for framebuffer.  The boardset
> is four 64-bit 66MHz PCI cards, as well as a ribbon cable connecting them
> together.  It was designed to do realistically-rendered product modeling
> and 3D CAD.

Wow that IBM board is impressive.  What machine does it come in?  And why the
heck won't google or IBM's search pages return any hits about that card?

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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