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Power • The OCTANH'M workstation has it in spades, thanks to a new architecture

that harnesses raw power resulting in unrivaled performance. An architecture that uses an

innovative crossbar interconnect to provide massive internal bandwidth. Bandwidth

3D GEOMETRY ENGINE PROCESSORS capable of gracefully sidestepping data bottlenecks and bringing true symmetric multi-pro-

• SINGLE OR DUAL PRocEssoRs-MiPSRιoooo cessing to the desktop. It's all powered by one or two MIPS R10000'M processors and the

world's most advanced desktop graphics that run even the most sophisticated programs

with vigor. With a tool like this there could be yet another person looking to dominate the

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• CROSSBAR ARCHITECTURE-1.6 GIGABYTES

PER SECOND PER PORT (7) · SINGLE OR DUAL

• SINGLE OR DUAL

TEXTURING/ IMAGING ENGINES

• UP TO 2 GIGABYTES OF MEMORY

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M ε 1997 Silicon Graphics. Inc. All rights reserved Silicon Graphics, Geometry Engine, and the Silicon Graphics logo are registered trademarks, and OCTANE, ignite your mind, and See what's possible are trademarks, of Silicon Graphic; Inc. MIPS and the MIPS RISC Certified Power logo are registered trademarks, and R10000 is a trademark, of MIPS Technologies. Inc. Brake disc assembly courtesy of Dassault Systèmes.

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