X i Graphics - A Small Case Study Accelerated-X™ on AIX
Xi Graphics, Inc. (”XiG”) was approached by a US-based division of a large, well-known company active internationally as a provider of control systems that employ Wall Displays of computer generated graphics. The division uses IBM System p products, and was having some difficulties with Power5 Model 520 systems, among others, using the IBM model GXT135P graphics card. While the graphics card could support two monitors and had hardware support for image overlays, the IBM-supplied X Window System sub-system software would not support overlays or more than one monitor per GXT135P graphics card.
Within about a 90 day period, XiG had provided the company (now a customer) with not only the ability to use two monitors and image overlays with each GXT135P card, the XiG Accelerated-X brand of X server/driver sub-system software also provided many features not available with the IBM software, and to top it off, increased the speed of the graphics system by a significant amount. Figure 1 shows the results of running the industry standard X11 Perf benchmark - first using IBM’s AIX X server/driver software, then using XiG’s Accelerated-X Summit Series X server/driver software. The customer also tested the XiG software with his applications software on a number of systems, all running the AIX v5.2 or v5.3 kernels and CDE desktop, to verify correct operation.
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