SGI designed the SGI® Onyx® 3000 series with InfiniteReality4™ graphics to work around the clock for everyone in an organization. It maximizes your return on investment by simultaneously acting as an interactive multiuser workstation, as a Visual Area Networking server, and to drive an SGI® Reality Center® facility. Then put it to work at nights and on weekends as a compute server to create the data you will analyze during the next business day.

SGI Reality Center Immersive Visualization Facilities

Group visualization available in SGI Reality Center environments greatly enhances product quality and speeds decision making. SGI Reality Center environments enable team members to fully immerse themselves in their data and make decisions together and in context. Because they are no longer tied to the scale and resolution of desktop monitors, visualization becomes the common language that ties together different disciplines on a team, allowing them to make more insightful decisions.

The image quality and display flexibility delivered by the SGI Onyx 3000 series with InfiniteReality4 graphics make it the ultimate platform for driving SGI Reality Center facilities. Small configurations can be used to drive wraparound visualization environments for workgroups while mid-range and high-end systems can be used to create high-performance 360-degree immersive environments for up to 500 people at a time. SGI Reality Center Integration Services are available to ensure success by assessing your needs and developing an effective and personalized implementation that includes design, installation, integration, custom applications, and operator training.

SGI Onyx 3000 Series Systems as Multiuser Workstations

The SGI Onyx 3000 series can be configured for up to 16 independent users to work with large models while sharing memory, CPU resources, and I/O bandwidth. By sharing highly scalable resources and leveraging the unique features of InfiniteReality family graphics, users can interact with data sets that greatly exceed the capabilities of desktop workstations and do so with unparalleled image quality and performance. By delivering the ultimate in image quality, applications performance, compute power, and I/O bandwidth, the SGI Onyx 3000 series with InfiniteReality4 graphics becomes the ultimate workgroup resource.

Visual Area Networking

Visual Area Networking enables single remote users or distributed collaborative teams to access high-end visualization environments from anywhere in an organization. Remote workers can collaborate in real-time on critical decisions without the need for specialized applications or the delay of copying data from one location to another. Desktop users with SGI Sun™ Linux® and Windows® OS-based systems can now work together and interactively control the graphics, compute, and data management power of remote SGI Onyx 3000 series systems that were previously unavailable on their individual desktops.

With Visual Area Networking, high-performance visualization applications run unaltered and take full advantage of the InfiniteReality family graphics pipeline on the SGI Onyx 3000 series system while the visual results are delivered directly to and controlled by the desktop user. I/O-intensive applications run up to 100 times faster than on a local workstation, CPU-intensive applications can run 10 or 20 times faster, and unique high-quality rendering applications, like interactive volume rendering of 3D seismic or medical data sets, are now available to all users.

Visual Area Networking is an ideal solution for increasing productivity and ROI, accelerating time to insight, and bridging the geographical gaps that separate organizations.