Onyx Product Guide
Performance Without Compromise
Onyx: The World's Most Advanced Open Computing Platform
Today's advanced graphics computing environments have an insatiable
appetite for processing power and graphics performance. But
historically, achieving those goals has involved trade-offs.
Typically, the highest levels of graphics performance have only been
attainable by resorting to special-purpose, proprietary computing
platforms that address extremely narrow application parameters. Such
machines lack flexibility, and fail to address the increasing need
for an open systems architecture that can be configured to meet a
variety of application needs.
Deskside Chassis
Features:
- Multiprocessing Support: two or four MIPS R4400 CPUs for balanced
integer & floating point performance or One or two MIPS TFP
processors for floating point intensive applications
- High-Capacity Memory: memory expandable from 64MB to 2GB with
2-way interleaving
- Powerful I/0 System: one POWERchannel-2 I/O board delivers up to
320MB/sec I/O bandwidth
- High-Bandwidth VME Bus: three VME slots with 5OMB/sec bus
- VTX or RealityEngine2 Graphics: a choice of graphics subsystems
allows users to match performance and budget requirements
- SCSI-2 FAST/WIDE Disk Technology: up to 14GB internal disk
storage, expandable to 680GB
Rack Chassis
Features:
- Multiprocessing Muscle: two to 24 MIPS R4400 CPUs or One to 12
MIPS TFP processors to provide up to 3.6 Gigaflops for peak
supercomputing performance
- Massive Memory Capacity: memory expandable from 64MB to 16GB
with 8-way interleaving
- Multiple I/O Subsystems: one to four POWERChannel-2 I/O boards
- Multiple VME Buses: three to 23 VME slots with 50MB/sec bandwidth
on each bus
- VTX or RealityEngine2 Graphics: choice of VTX or RealityEngine2
graphics with optional graphics expansion, up to three
RealityEngine2 graphics subsystems in a single system
- SCSI-2 FAST/WIDE Disk Technology: up to 32GB internal disk
storage, expandable to three Terabytes
Enter the Onyx Graphics Supercomputer, from Silicon Graphics
With Onyx, scientists, engineers and creative professionals now have
the ultimate in graphics power without compromising flexibility or
performance. The Onyx platform combines the multiprocessing power of
a supercomputer with the world's most advanced graphics
architecture. Onyx was designed with a flexible and scalable open
systems approach that provides users with superior performance and
a wealth of development tools and libraries. The result is a unique
blend of proprietary level graphics performance, delivered in a
standards based, modular computing platform.
Onyx. Performance without compromise, for the world's most demanding
graphics applications.
