Silicon Graphics® Prism Visualization System User's Guide for Extreme Scalable Configurations

Document Number: 007-4774-002

CONTRIBUTORS

Written by Mark Schwenden, Dick Brownell, and Eric Zamost

Illustrated by Chrystie Danzer and Dan Young

Engineering contributions by Michael T Brown, Steve Bowen, Mark Cabrales, David Collins, Galen Flunker, Hartmut Gottwald, Josh Grossman, Tom Hotle, William Kellerman, Mark Koneazny, Eric Kunze, Matt Marchese, Gary Meyer, Jim Passint, Keith Rich, Victor Riley, Armando Serrato, Dave Shreiner, Andrew Spray, Lyle Stoll, Gregory Thorson and Paul Wiley.

COPYRIGHT

© 2005 Silicon Graphics, Inc. All rights reserved; provided portions may be copyright in third parties, as indicated elsewhere herein. No permission is granted to copy, distribute, or create derivative works from the contents of this electronic documentation in any manner, in whole or in part, without the prior written permission of Silicon Graphics, Inc.

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Record of Revision

Revision 001May 2005 

First release



Revision 002October 2005 
Updated to include Propack 4, Service Pack 2