SGI Prism

The Silicon Graphics Prism is a series of visualization computer systems developed and manufactured by Silicon Graphics (SGI). Released in April 2005, the Prism's basic system architecture is based on the Altix 3000 servers, but with graphics hardware.^[1] The Prism uses the Linux operating system and the OpenGL software library.^[2]

SGI Prism

SGI Prism front
Manufacturer	Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Type	Workstation
Release date	April 2005 (2005-04)
Discontinued	2010
Operating system	Linux
CPU	Itanium 2
Memory	1 GB to 6.1 TB
Graphics	FireGL R350, FireGL R420
Connectivity	USB
Predecessor	SGI Origin 3000
Successor	SGI Virtu
Related	SGI Altix
Website	http://www.sgi.com/products/visualization/prism/ Archived 2005-12-12 at the Wayback Machine

SGI Prism Extreme front

Three models of the SGI Prism are Power, Team and Extreme levels.

• The Power level supports two to eight Itanium 2 processors, up to 96 GB of memory and two to four graphics pipelines.
• The Team level supports 8 to 16 Itanium 2 processors, up to 192 GB of memory and four to eight graphics pipelines.
• The Extreme level supports 16 to 256 Itanium 2 processors, up to 3 TB of memory and 4 to 16 graphics pipelines.

The graphics pipelines for the Prism are ATI FireGL cards based on either the R350 or R420 GPUs.

SGI timeline