June 24, 1998 - ELSA, Inc., the US subsidiary of the German computer graphics and data communications specialist
ELSA, today announced that Tri-Star will incorporate ELSA’s OpenGL® performance leader, the ELSA
GLoria-XXL, in its high-performance workstations. A leading manufacturer of Windows NT® workstations
and servers, Tri-Star will offer the ELSA GLoria-XXL AGP professional graphics accelerator to users with
demanding geometry-intensive graphics requirements for CAD/CAM/CAE, 3D animation, and digital media markets.
The ELSA GLoria-XXL is the OpenGL performance leader in the ELSA GLoria family, delivering superior AGP performance with on-board geometry. Tri-Star customers will be able to take advantage of high resolution OpenGL up to 1920 x 1200 in high color, full geometry acceleration in hardware, and ELSA's Software Advantage in OpenGL, 3D Studio MAX, and Autodesk Mechanical Desktop drivers.
"Tri-Star Computer remains committed to delivering leading-edge technology to its customers, and the ELSA ELSA GLoria-XXL accelerator is an example of high-performance selections our customers have come to expect," said Thomas W. Larkin, Tri-Star president and CEO.
"Tri-Star continues to be an important partner for ELSA in delivering high-performance solutions for the workstation market," said Thomas Neubert, vice president of sales and marketing at ELSA, Inc. "Tri-Star's workstation with the ELSA GLoria-XXL will deliver unsurpassed 3D performance and functionality to MCAD and creative professionals."
"3Dlabs is pleased that Tri-Star is again partnering with ELSA and has adopted the GLINT GMX-based ELSA GLoria-XXL in their latest workstation offering," said Neil Trevett, vice president of marketing at 3Dlabs. "We are confident that the combination of the high-performance GLINT GMX chipset and the engineering expertise of ELSA's customized software drivers will comprehensively meet the needs of even the most demanding graphics professionals."
The ELSA GLoria-XXL provides 16 MB of VRAM and up to 40 MB of local texture memory EDO RAM, proving to be an excellent choice for customers in the MCAD and digital content creation market running media-rich, geometry intensive 3D applications such as SOFTIMAGE 3D, 3D Studio MAX and Pro/ENGINEER. This accelerator features ELSA optimized drivers for high-performance 3D standards: OpenGL, HEIDI, and Direct 3D; and ELSA Software Advantage in drivers and utilities including GLoria Settings, MAXtreme for 3D Studio MAX r2, POWERdraft for AutoCAD R14, R13 and ELSAview 3D for AutoCAD R13, R14 and Mechanical Desktop.
Incorporating the 3Dlabs (San Jose, CA, NASDAQ:TDDDF) GLINT GMX processor, ELSA GLoria-XXL is capable of accelerating up to 3.3 million polygons-per-second, with full geometry transformation, lighting calculations, texture coordinate generation and high quality fog calculation. ELSA GLoria-XXL uses a 48-bit local buffer interface to enable simultaneous use of 3D features such as front and back buffer, Z buffer, stencil, fast clear planes and graphics ID.
ELSA AG is a stock company based in Aachen, Germany, with subsidiaries in Santa Clara (California), Taipei (Taiwan), and Tokyo (Japan). Founded in 1980, ELSA has built up a world-renowned reputation for applying advanced engineering expertise to computer graphics and data communications products. Technological competence, German standards of quality, leading-edge products and services backed up by excellent support: these are factors which firmly place ELSA at the forefront of the market today.
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