Intercad announces the Elsa GLoria4 Family of Graphics Accelerators based on NVIDIA Quadro4 OGLE Technology

For mid-range and high-end professional 3D CAD and DCC, ELSA products set a new standard for workstation graphics application performance

Sydney March 8, 2002 - Intercad Pty. Ltd. technological solutions suppliers for designers, engineers and manufacturers today announce the launch of the ELSA? GLoria4(tm) XGL family of graphics accelerators for 3D computer-aided design (CAD) and digital content creation (DCC). The three boards in the family - GLoria4 Quadro4 750XGL and GLoria4 Quadro4 900XGL, based on the NVIDIA? (Nasdaq: NVDA) Quadro4 XGL graphics processor - provide mid-range to high-end features for improving workstation graphics application performance, graphics programmability and multi-display productivity.

"ELSA has established a reputation for putting the most powerful and usable tools in the hands of graphics professionals, enabling them to reach new levels of creativity and performance in 3D CAD and DCC," said Eric Shiroke, president and CEO of ELSA Inc. "These new GLoria4 XGL products perform at levels far surpassing the industry's most expensive graphics hardware and set a new standard for workstation graphics application performance. These solutions will enable design professionals in fields ranging from game development and visual effects to automotive and industrial design to truly push the limits of 3D animation and design."

Based on NVIDIA's fourth-generation Quadro4 XGL graphics processing units (GPUs), the new family of ELSA GLoria4 graphics accelerators offer a combination of dynamic memory bandwidth management, highly optimized OpenGL and DirectX drivers, the industry's most efficient occlusion culling and an architecture that renders an astonishing 60 million lit, shaded and textured triangles per second.

"NVIDIA's Quadro4 XGL offers, for the first time ever, a complete, scalable, top to bottom workstation graphics line that delivers the industry's highest performance, most complete feature set, and unprecedented value," said Jeff Brown, general manager, workstation products division for NVIDIA. "With their extensive workstation industry knowledge, ELSA will bring these revolutionary products to end users and system builders under the brand name GLoria4 Quadro4 XGL."

Performance Levels Enhance Any Graphics Application At the heart of the ELSA GLoria4 XGL graphics accelerators lies NVIDIA's second-generation nfiniteFX engine, which drive NVIDIA's programmable OpenGL and DirectX shaders. These tools enable graphics professionals to achieve procedural effects previously impossible to render in real time.

The latest workstation graphics applications rely heavily on the programmability of the Quadro4 XGL GPU for the full expression of their most advanced features and effects. By exploiting these advanced application features, ELSA enables graphics professionals to use their workstations to create more compelling designs with higher levels of quality, which leads to higher productivity and faster turn-around times.

All the ELSA GLoria4 XGL products feature a unified memory architecture that dynamically allocates memory between graphics subsystems such as the frame buffer, texture memory and vertex memory. They also include NVIDIA's second-generation Lightspeed Memory Architecture, which dynamically load balances across the patented crossbar memory controller, resulting in optimal memory bandwidth usage.

In addition, the new family of graphics accelerators protects users' workstation graphics investments by taking advantage of NVIDIA's patented Unified Driver Architecture (UDA), which allows a single device driver to be certified across all professional applications for every member of the product family. This continuous application certification automatically benefits both current and earlier generations of ELSA GLoria products. The UDA model also means that a single graphics driver update can be applied to an entire population of workstations, across multiple ELSA GLoria products and generations, which reduces the burden on IT resources.

Because many graphics professionals engage in projects requiring multiple displays, every product in the new ELSA GLoria4 XGL family supports multi-display configurations. This multi-display capability is powered by NVIDIA's patented nView multi-display software, considered the most intuitive multi-display user interface on the market.
Product Family Serves Mid-Range to High-End Graphics Requirements The three products that make up the ELSA GLoria4 XGL family share a number of important features, including the following:

• nfiniteFX Engine
• 3D features such as 32-bit Z and stencil buffer, single-pass multi-texturing, Quincunx full-scene anti-aliasing, 2D generation occlusion culling, OpenGL quad buffering stereo, hardware 3D textures, high-quality texture filtering including Anisotropic
• extended motion compensation for full-screen video playback in all HDTV and DVD resolutions
• video acceleration for MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and INDEO
• Lightspeed Memory Architecture
• maximum resolution of 2048 x 1536 per display with Dual 350 MHz RAMDACs
• support for OpenGL, OpenGL Overlay, Direct 3D and DirectX 7/8 graphics standards
• AGP 1x/2x/4x (Universal Board Design) bus supporting 1.5 V and 3.3 V
• VESA BIOS 3.0 Support VESA DPMS, DDC2B and plug-and-play standards
• stereo 3D via a VESA 3-pin stereo shutter connection
• compatibility with Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP 64-bit and Xfree86 (Linux) operating systems
• work with the leading 3D professional applications, including 3dsmax, ALLPLAN, ArcView, AutoCAD, Autodesk Architectural Desktop, Autodesk Inventor, Autodesk Mechanical Design, Autodesk VIZ, AVS/Express, CADdy++, CATIA, Cinema 4D, Design Studio, Extreme 3D, HICAD, Houdini, I-DEAS Master Series, Lightscape, LightWave 3D, Logocad Triga, Maya NT, Microstation J, Mirai, Patran, Pro/ENGINEER, Pro/Mechanica, SoftImage, Solid Edge, Solid Designer, Solid Works, Unicenter TNG, Unigraphics, Virtual GIS, visplan and WorldToolKit u.a.

Individually, the products vary in their graphics processors, memory and display output.

The GLoria4 750XGL boards use the NVIDIA Quadro4 700XGL graphics processor with a 256-bit engine with HyperTexel architecture, and supports VGA + VGA and VGA + Digital display outputs. The Gloria4 750XGL has 128 MB DDR-SDRAM memory, delivering an unbeatable combination of graphical rendering power and value.

The GLoria4 Quadro4 900XGL board uses the NVIDIA Quadro4 900XGL graphics processor with a 256-bit engine with HyperTexel architecture and has 128 MB DDR-SDRAM memory. It supports VGA + VGA, VGA + Digital, and Digital + Digital display outputs. With the fastest GPU for professional applications, this product achieves the technology and performance lead in the high-end workstation category.

Price and Availability 

The Gloria4 XGL family of products will be available to end users and resellers in April 2002 throughout Australia and New Zealand from Intercad Pty. Ltd. price TBA.

About Intercad

Intercad Pty Ltd is an Australian-owned company specialising in Mechanical Computer Aided Engineering, Computer Aided Design, Computer Aided Manufacturing (MCAE/CAD/CAM) and Product Data Management solutions Its core activities include systems integration, software and hardware sales, technical support, training and consulting services.

Intercad is headquartered in Sydney, with direct offices in Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth in Australia, and in Auckland and Christchurch in New Zealand. 

www.intercad.com.au

 

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