Digit: SGI Launches Linux Visual Computer Line

"Silicon Graphics are launching the successor line to its Onyx visualization systems. Called Prism, the systems run Linux on Itanium 2 processors.

"Like the Onyx systems, the Prism line is designed for use for advanced visual computing applications such as video post-production, GIS and medical research. They will also use the same ATI graphics accelerators and NUMAflex shared memory architecture as SGI's MIPS-based systems..."

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