Tungsten Graphics Launches TG Enhanced Chromium for Mac OS X

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- Tungsten Graphics, a leading graphics development company, today announced that TG Enhanced Chromium, a system for interactive rendering on clusters of workstations, will be released for Apple's Intel-based Macs.

Chromium, an extremely popular open source project, has been adopted by major applications vendors, national laboratories and many research institutions. Chromium is a completely extensible architecture, which provides parallel rendering to improve the performance of computer graphics and has the capability to run many standard OpenGL programs without modification. TG Enhanced Chromium consists of the open source Chromium project with additional components created and maintained by Tungsten Graphics.

"TG Enhanced Chromium on Apple's Mac OS X provides users with the means to harness the power of Mac clusters to drive multi-panel displays." commented Jens Owen, CEO, Tungsten Graphics. "We are really pleased to bring to the Mac community the chance to experience faster, more reliable and accurate presentation of large data sets."

"The powerful graphics capabilities of Mac OS X and advanced graphics card support in the Mac Pro are perfect for high performance scientific visualization applications," said Ron Okamoto, Apple's vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations. "We're thrilled that TG Enhance Chromium now offers the exciting opportunity to visualize large datasets using a cluster of Mac Pros with Cinema HD displays. Enabling researchers to scale the number of displays to best fit their 2D or 3D data will surely aid scientific discovery."

Tungsten Graphics also announced the Mac OS X availability of Equalizer, an open source rendering framework and resource management system for parallel OpenGL-based applications. Equalizer makes the development and deployment of parallel, scalable visualization applications as easy as possible by providing a minimally invasive API, run-time configuration and run-time scalability.

TG Enhanced Chromium on Mac OS X will be shipping by the end of August 2007.


About Tungsten Graphics

Tungsten Graphics, Inc. is an international and world-renowned engineering company that specializes in hardware-related software engineering with expertise in Linux and Open Source 2D/3D graphics technologies including X servers, OpenGL, the Direct Rendering Infrastructure, Mesa, VNC and Chromium.

Tungsten Graphics is a recognized contributor to many open source projects and has a rich history of driving the Open Source graphics infrastructure. Tungsten Graphics? employees continue to be major contributors to Mesa, X.org, Chromium, DRI and XFree86 and are active participants on the OpenGL ARB. We are currently pursuing OpenGL ES integration with the X.org and Mesa projects. We take pride in our reputation for doing excellent work, demonstrating graphics expertise and implementing solutions on-time and within budget.

For more information, contact Tungsten Graphics at:
www.tungstengraphics.com
866-424-9677
sales@tungstengraphics.com

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