“SGI…announced the immediate availability of IRIS
Performer(TM) 2.3 for Linux(R), a real-time rendering toolkit for
Intel processor-based systems running Linux. IRIS Performer is
SGI’s flagship high-performance graphics software toolkit on
IRIX(R), and this additional version of the product on Linux
underscores the company’s goal of driving graphics technology
across the full spectrum of pricepoints. Application developers can
now harness the capabilities of this leading scalable, interactive
rendering toolkit while benefiting from the reduced cost and wide
availability of the Linux operating system.”
“The release of IRIS Performer on Linux allows software
developers to leverage their investments in existing IRIX operating
system-based Performer simulations and databases while supporting
emerging Linux operating system-based systems, thus saving
considerable time and money. Layered on top of the
industry-standard OpenGL(R) toolkit, IRIS Performer 2.3 for Linux
supports the OpenGL graphics library and will run on current
Intel(R) Pentium(R) systems as well as future IA-32 and IA-64
architecture-based systems. The software is provided at no cost via
a World Wide Web download….”
“The international software developer’s community has responded
to the initial Beta Program release with overwhelming support,
generating approximately 11,000 downloads of the pre-released
product.”