Volume Graphics Products Optimized for
64-bit AMD Opteron™ Processors and
Intel Processors with EM64T Extension

3-D voxel graphics and image processing is one of the most memory hungry applications. The amount of data which has to be processed has increased dramatically and still increases with the availability of more modern 3D imaging technologies and devices. This is the reason why one of the major software development directives at Volume Graphics is implementation with consideration of system resources. Already today Volume Graphics customers deal with data set sizes of several giga bytes hard to handle on standard 32 bit hardware.

Already in early 2000 Volume Graphics ported its software products to the IA-64 Itanium Processor in cooperation with Intel. Since then Volume Graphics continously extended its software to support for the AMD64 Processor, AMD Opteron and all 64 Bit processors with EM64T extension from Intel. 64-bit processors today play a major role in voxel graphics and image processing. Because Volume Graphics products are built on a scalable software-based processing architecture, its performance is directly linked to the underlying bandwidth of the system. Thanks to the 64-bit processor generations, users will have the opportunity to increase their productivity. They are able to work at full resolution with voxel data sets up to several giga bytes and therefore increase accuracy of their analysis and the quality of their products.

For users processing largest data sets larger than 20GB or users with a need for maximum performance Volume Graphics products have been optimized and released for Silicon Graphics Prism™ and SGI® Altix® systems. Volume Graphics visualization software solutions scale with nearly linear speedup on SGI platforms using SGI's unique NUMAflex™ shared-memory system architecture! Example: VGL 3.2 rendering performance reaches on an 56 CPU Silicon Graphics Prism™ a nearly linear speedup of more than 99% CPU utilization!

All Volume Graphics products are available for Intel 64 Bit processors and AMD Opteron processor running Windows 64 Bit, Linux 64 Bit and MAC OS X (today with 32Bit application address space only due to limitations of the MAC OS X operating system).