Onyx is a series of visualization systems designed and manufactured by SGI, introduced in 1993 and offered in two models, deskside and rackmount, codenamed Eveready and Terminator respectively. Onyx's basic system architecture is based on the SGI Challenge servers, but with graphics hardware.

The Origin 350 / Onyx 350 are mid-range server and visualization systems. As such they are successors to the Origin 300 / Onyx 300 systems. Based on the same core technology the Onyx 4 system was introduced. All of these systems are members of the Chimera family which also includes the Tezro workstation. The three systems are based on the same ...

SGI Onyx4 Graphics Workstations. The Onyx4 Graphics Workstation features the sames modular archetecture as the Origin 350 but adds ATI FireGL graphics. Each Onyx4 chassis takes up only 2U in a standard 19inch rack with the base system requring 2 chassis(one compute module with PCI for the IO9, the other with AGP slots for FireGL graphics).

Figure 1-5 shows an SGI ImageSync card installed in a host system with SGI ImageSync cables connected to three graphics bricks. For further information about SGI ImageSync cabling, refer to

Onyx can be configured with up to 24 R4400 CPUs for a very cost-effective supercomputing, multiprocessor environment. The Onyx R4400 CPU has primary instruction and data

SGI Onyx Systems Features: Processing capabilities scale from single 150MHz R4400SC, to 28 195MHz R10000SC processors. Memory from 64MB all the way to 8GB. 2 SCSI busses standard, 1 Fast10 Narrow SE, 1 Fast10 Wide Differential Graphics options are VTX, RE2, Infinite Reality with up to 7 monitor connections per graphics pipe.

The SGI Onyx4 is a customized Origin 350 with a custom backplane and an ATi-developed graphics system called UltimateVision. Differences from the Onyx 350. The Onyx4 uses a custom backplane that allows a pair of ATi FireGL graphics cards in lieu of a VPro graphics pipe. Compatibility Issues. The Onyx4 uses XFree86 and is incompatible with ...

SGI Onyx. The Silicon Graphics Onyx, code named Eveready (deskside models) and Terminator (rackmount models), is a series of visualization systems designed and manufactured by Silicon Graphics, introduced in 1993. The Onyx's basic system architecture is based on the SGI Challenge servers, but

Released in the early 1990s, the SGI Onyx was a groundbreaking workstation that epitomized Silicon Graphics, Inc.’s (SGI) commitment to high-performance computing and advanced graphics capabilities.

Onyx visualization solutions are based on the award-winning SGI® NUMAflexTM architecture, which provides unprecedented modularity, configurability, and reliability. NUMAflex provides independent scaling and updates for all of the major system components including CPU, memory, storage, I/O, and graphics.