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As you may or may not know, Silicon Graphics recently ran a contest
called The Rift (http://www.sgi.com/Contests/TheRift/game.html) in
which the grand prize was a High Impact Webforce Authoring
Workstation.  The good news is that five of us teamed up and won the
contest. The bad news is that, being graduate students, we have to sell
the machine in order to pay the taxes to Uncle Sam :-(

This machine is brand new and unopened (in fact, it has not even been
delivered yet!).  It starts with a fast workstation and adds an
incredible graphics system with hardware support of texturing. It
sports 3.2M X11 Lines, 117M Gouraud Fill (pixels/s), and 65M *Textured*
Gouraud Z Fill (pixels/s). It also includes the Webforce Authoring
software package.

SGI's price for this setup is $36,000. We are currently looking for
reasonable offers (FOB Chicago). Below I have included several links to
SGI's WWW server which has lots of detailed information on the machine.
I can also answer any questions you may have by e-mail. The information
below has been cribbed from SGI's site, but please see the WWW pages
for prettier (and much more complete) details.

Jerry
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Jerry Fountain          | Laboratory for Fluid Mechanics, Chaos, and Mixing
gof@chem-eng.nwu.edu    | Northwestern University
(708) 491-3555 (Office) | Department of Chemical Engineering
(708) 491-3728 (FAX)    | 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL  60208



-------------------------- Webforce Starting Point -------------------
  http://www.sgi.com/Products/WebFORCE/index.html

-------------------------- Webforce Author Details -------------------
WebFORCE Authoring Environment
  http://www.sgi.com/Products/WebFORCE/wfswsol.html

Webforce Authoring Environment includes
  WebMagic Pro: a powerful, easy-to-use WYSIWYG Web authoring application 
  Digital Media Tools: applications that help you easily create media-rich Web pages
  Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator: for unrivaled digital media editing capability 

-------------------------- Impact Starting Point -------------------
IMPACT PRODUCTS
  http://www.sgi.com/Products/Indigo2/IMPACT/index.html

----------------------------- Hardware Details -----------------------
Indigo2 IMPACT Product Hardware Specifications
  http://www.sgi.com/Products/Indigo2/IMPACT/Products/ind2specs.html

  200 MHz R4400 CPU
  2MB Secondary Cache
  64MB Memory (Expandable to 384MB)
  2GB Internal Hard Disk
  *2* Fast SCSI-2 channels
  20" Color Monitor.

  Benchmark Data: AIM       140
                  Spec92Int 140
                  Spec92fp  131  


-------------------------- Graphics Details --------------------------
High Impact Graphics
  http://www.sgi.com/Products/Indigo2/IMPACT/Products/ind2graphics.html

Integrated 3D and Imaging

Indigo2 High IMPACT is the first desktop workstation to combine
high-speed 3D graphics with fully integrated imaging capabilities.
Ideal applications include game authoring, seismic interpretation,
satellite image processing, and Web authoring.

     HQ3 Command Processor 
          Distributes graphics primitives to Geometry Engine 
          GIO64 bus interface 
          Pixel DMA engine 
          300,000 gates 
     GE11 Geometry/Image Engine 
          Powers the graphics subsystem 
          480 MFLOPS for transforming triangles 
          480 MIOPS for processing pixels 
          600,000 gates 
     RE4 Raster Engine 
          Provides the pixel-fill capabilities 
          117 Mpixels/sec gouraud fill rate 
          300,000 gates 
     TE Texture Engine 
          Fills, warps and zooms image/texture data 
          295,000 gates 
     One or Four MB Texture Memory 
          Interpolates image/texture data and performs MIP-mapping interpolation 
          1MB of texture memory with expandability to 4MB through optional Mezzanine card 
          60,000 gates + 8Mb DRAM for each MB 
     Two PP1 Pixel Pipe Processors 
          Provide blending, depth and dithering 
          290,000 gates each 
     Live Video 
         Expansion port supports Indigo2 Mindshare Bundle, Indigo2 IMPACT Video, Indigo2
         IMPACT Channel Option, or Indigo2 Presenter 
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Jerry Fountain          | Laboratory for Fluid Mechanics, Chaos, and Mixing
gof@chem-eng.nwu.edu    | Northwestern University
(708) 491-3555 (Office) | Department of Chemical Engineering
(708) 491-3728 (FAX)    | 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL  60208