Silicon Graphics - Hardware for computer animation

The SGI platform is one of the most broadly used hardware platforms in professional or broadcast feature computer animation productions. Several of the salient characteristics of Silicon Graphics Inc. computers are that, of the dissimilar types obtainable in the market. Silicon Graphics Inc. computers are really fast, produce excellent outcomes and operate by using the widespread UNIX operating system. SGIs are created by Silicon Graphics, ranging from the common reason Indy, to the high power Indigo2 Extreme® utilized to produce animations, the Onyx that is particularly suited to do complicated calculations. Almost all main production studios utilize SGIs state of the art software as Alias, Wavefront and SoftImage are run on SGIs.