http://www.sgi.com/Headlines/1995/Mar/hot-irons.html (Einblicke ins Internet, 10/1995)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (March 14, 1995) - Silicon Graphics, Inc. (NYSE: SGI) today won two 1995 Hot Iron Awards for best workstation price performance in both price categories: systems under $25,000 and systems over $25,000. AIM Technology, the leading independent testing service for UNIX® systems, recognized Silicon Graphics' Indy(tm) and Indigo2(tm) workstations as Hot Iron winners at the UniForum conference today in Dallas, Texas.
"The AIM benchmark tests nearly every part of the system: CPU, I/O, memory, disk drives, the operating system and compilers," said David Bagshaw, vice president of marketing for Silicon Graphics. "Because AIM comes closest to gauging true overall system performance, we're excited to be a top AIM performer."
In the under $25,000 price category, Silicon Graphics' Indy workstation captured top price/performance honors. The winning configuration included a 133MHz MIPS R4600(tm)PC processor, 32MB of memory, a 535MB system disk and a 17-inch color monitor with 1280 by 1024 resolution.
Silicon Graphics' Indigo2 workstation garnered the AIM Best Price Performer award for workstations priced over $25,000. Powered by a 200MHz MIPS® RISC R4400(tm)SC processor, the system configuration included 64MB of memory, a 2GB system disk, 1MB secondary cache and a 20-inch color monitor with 1280 by 1024 resolution.
Workstation tests were based on the AIM Workstation Benchmark Suite VI, designed by AIM Technology to measure, evaluate and predict UNIX system performance. The workstation benchmark provides 49 basic tests that can be combined to simulate various multiuser environments on UNIX systems. Results are reported in peak performance, the system's highest performance level when a significant amount of CPU, floating point, and disk caching is used; and sustained performance, a measurement taken when the system is supporting the maximum acceptable system load.
Other vendors participating in the AIM benchmark testing include: AST Research, Apricot, Compaq, Data General, Digital Equipment, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, ICL, Motorola, Olivetti, Sun Microsystems, Tricord and Zenith.
AIM Technology is an independent organization, as opposed to a vendor consortium, which allows AIM to bring an expert eye to performance measurement that is not restrained by the objectives of consortium members. AIM Technology, headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. was founded in 1981 and is privately held. The company provides performance testing and performance management tools for the UNIX systems market.
Silicon Graphics, Inc. is the leading manufacturer of high-performance visual computing systems. The company delivers interactive 3D graphics, digital media and multiprocessing supercomputing technologies to technical, scientific and creative professionals. Its subsidiary, MIPS Technologies, Inc., designs and licenses RISC processor technology for the computer systems and embedded control markets. Silicon Graphics has offices worldwide and headquarters in Mountain View, California.
Silicon Graphics and the Silicon Graphics logo are registered trademarks, and Indy and Indigo2 are trademarks of Silicon Graphics, Inc. MIPS is a registered trademark, and R4400 is a trademarks of MIPS Technologies, Inc. R4600 is a trademark of Integrated Devices Technology, Inc. All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective companies.
