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SGI Japan Concludes Master Reseller Contract With VRCO, Inc. To Provide The World's Most Advanced Large-Scale Immersive Visualization System Enhancing Visualization Consulting Business To Lead The VR Market September 25, 2006 SGI Japan Inc. (President: Norio Izumi, Head office: Ebisu, Shibuya ward) concluded a master reseller contract for the Japanese market with VRCO Inc. (Head office: Virginia,USA), a provider of the world most advanced software products developed for large-scale immersive visualization systems for the field of virtual reality, and SGI Japan, today started the sales of VRCO’s products in the Japanese market. SGI Japan has been supplying the leading-edge VR systems to the wide range of fields including universities and research institutes mainly for the advanced scientific technology applications, also for the designing and engineering fields of manufacturers such as automobile industry, and for the landscape simulation in the construction industry. From this day forth, based on the master reseller contract with VRCO Inc., SGI Japan will promote the best system integration which is most suitable to the needs of customers. And, being the master reseller of VRCO Inc., SGI Japan promises to expand and enhance its visualization consulting business, and to lead the domestic VR market. The software products provided by VRCO Inc. are widely used as the standard for the development and configuration of the large-scale immersive visualization systems. They support the range from large-scale visualization systems to PC cluster systems to realize high-quality VR environment. In Japan, mainly in the fields of the advanced science and technology development, as the needs for visualization that allows easy understanding of analytical results of huge amount of data are growing, many entities are introducing large-scale visualization systems. In such circumstance, VRCO Inc., as the leading provider in the market of huge data visualization has been providing reliable software products for the high performance computing. In the meantime, SGI Japan has been supplying immersive visualization systems and high-end graphics servers, and actively implementing solution businesses in the visualization field for wide range of the advanced researches in universities and research institutes, for design review in the manufacturing industries, and for visualization of historical and cultural heritages for the museums and exhibition spots. In recent years, SGI Japan advocates and promotes “Miseruka” that leads further understanding and discerning by adding extra value on the existing content to directly stimulate human intuition, and the cooperation with VRCO Inc. is a part of its efforts to realize this. Concluded the master reseller contract with VRCO this time, SGI Japan, as the solution integrator, will be able to combine the most advanced products and technologies mainly in the field of large-scale immersive visualization and to provide various solutions satisfying the needs of customers quickly and at higher level. Though SGI Japan was providing products of VRCO Inc. before, from now on, based on the master reseller contract with the company, it will supply VRCO’s products to any and all other platforms running on Windows ® or Linux ®. <Major product line of VRCO Inc. supplied by SGI Japan>
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