Tungsten Graphics Announces R&D 100 Award for Chromium Project
The Chromium project (http://chromium.sourceforge.net/) was awarded a 2004 R&D 100 award by R&D magazine (http://www.rdmag.com). This prestigious award is given annually to the "100 Most Technologically Significant New Products & Processes of the Year". R&D 100 Award information can be found at: http://www.rdmag.com/rd100/100win.asp . The award was made jointly to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Stanford University, the University of Virginia and Tungsten Graphics. Tungsten Graphics has had a number of key developers and administrators working on the Chromium Project and offers on going Chromium development services to commercial enterprises world-wide.
Cedar Park, TX (PRWEB) July 18, 2004 -- Tungsten Graphics, inc., a premiere
provider of Graphics infrastructure software and services announced today, The
Chromium project (http://chromium.sourceforge.net/) was awarded a 2004 R&D
100 award by R&D magazine (http://www.rdmag.com). This prestigious award is given
annually to the "100 Most Technologically Significant New Products &
Processes of the Year".
R&D 100 Award information can be found at: http://www.rdmag.com/rd100/100win.asp . The award was made
jointly to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Stanford University, the
University of Virginia and Tungsten Graphics. Tungsten Graphics has had a number
of key developers and administrators working on the Chromium Project and offers
on going Chromium development services to commercial enterprises
world-wide.
The software architecture called Chromium was designed and
developed by two LLNL computer scientists in collaboration with researchers from
Stanford University, the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and a
commercial company, Tungsten Graphics.
Chromium provides a way for
interactive two and three dimensional graphics applications to take full
advantage of powerful distributed, graphics-enabled clusters of off-the-shelf or
commodity personal computers. It provides an extensible mechanism that allows
applications to draw computer graphics imagery on such clusters with a high
degree of data, display and performance scalability, and offers unique
capabilities not previously available in existing systems.
Chromium
allows most existing applications to run without modification, and enables
creation of powerful new parallel graphics applications capable of fully
exploiting the power of these clusters.
This advanced architecture draws
its name from the phrase "Clustered Rendering," or CR for short. CR also is the
atomic symbol for the element Chromium, providing the project name.
Since
its Open Source public release, the Chromium system has proven to be an
extremely popular program, with more than 18,000 downloads of the software. The
Chromium infrastructure has been adopted by a large number of users and is
rapidly forming the basis of a great deal of clustering research at national
laboratories and a number of other research institutions.
About Tungsten
Graphics
Tungsten Graphics Inc. (TG) is a graphics software consulting
company that develops state of the art graphics and open infrastructure
solutions running on Linux, FreeBSD, and other operating systems. TG was founded
by Brian Paul (owner and principal author of Mesa), Frank LaMonica (former CEO
of Precision Insight), Jens Owen (founding partner and former engineering
manager of Precision Insight), and Keith Whitwell (senior engineer and major
contributor to Mesa.)
TG has established itself as a premier consulting
organization, providing vendor neutral development and world renowned software
architectural leadership. Major clients include corporations such as Intel,
General Dynamics, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Red Hat, and The Weather
Channel. Our team members have consistently demonstrated the commitment and
ability to do whatever is required to bring projects to successful
completion.
As a recognized contributor to many open source projects, TG
has a proven track record of developing technology that has become standard in
the industry. TG is an active participant in many graphics initiatives,
including XFree86, Mesa, DRI, Chromium, and VNC. As a result, we can assure our
clients that software we develop will integrate seamlessly into our client's
open or proprietary systems, and all existing open source technologies.
Technical excellence, highly refined management skills, and unfaltering
commitment, combined with the highest ethical and business standards make
Tungsten Graphics a trusted partner for any serious project.
For more
information please see www.tungstengraphics.com
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