SGI® Onyx® 350 with InfinitePerformance™ Overview

When you need to solve your toughest problems in record-setting time and deploy high-performance visualization throughout your organization, turn to SGI Onyx 350 with InfinitePerformance graphics.

Proven Interactive Performance
SGI Onyx 350 with InfinitePerformance offers highly interactive performance and price/performance in a scalable visualization system, all in a compact 3.5-inch (2U) form factor. With a single-card graphics pipeline and scalable graphics compositors integrated into the new Onyx 350 system, true cost-effective scalability for graphics is enabled. A four-way composited InfinitePerformance graphics channel allows interactive visualization of enormous data sets, delivering up to 141 million triangles per second and 3.8 billion pixels per second to a single display. Whether you are supporting multiple interactive users, driving an SGI® Reality Center® facility for group collaboration, or visualizing the most complex data in your organization, the combination of graphics power, system scalability, and price/performance in SGI Onyx 350 with InfinitePerformance delivers the power and flexibility that you need.

The benefits of using SGI Onyx 350 with InfinitePerformance graphics are:
Interactive visualization of large manufacturing data sets: Design and engineering departments are faced with an explosion of data required to create new products and analyze complex problems. An SGI Onyx 350 system with a four-way composited InfinitePerformance graphics pipeline enables interactive visualization of enormous data--an impossibility on desktop UNIX® or Windows® systems. The compact and cost-effective SGI Onyx 350 with InfinitePerformance brings this power to departments throughout an organization.
Faster time to insight with grid visualization: SGI® VAN solutions built on SGI Onyx 350 with InfinitePerformance and OpenGL VizserverTM 3.1 bring advanced visualization power to the grid and minimize the amount of time lost while results are transferred to each member of the research team. For the first time, grid users and collaborative teams are able to immediately visualize and understand supercomputer results, no matter the size or location of those results.
Deployable command-and-control environments: Today's homeland security and national defense environments rely heavily on having an accurate and up-to-date common operating picture for decision makers located at the scene and back at headquarters. Onyx 350 with InfinitePerformance that combines the power of a supercomputer with the insights of advanced visualization, and VAN provides the link between forward units and headquarters. In addition, the small footprint and low power consumption make this system ideal for deployment at forward headquarters or with mobile units.
Up to a 30% decrease in total cost of ownership for high-performance film processing and mastering: High-quality film mastering is both I/O and computationally intensive, and requires integrated visualization to maintain quality control. The size, power, and digital media capabilities of SGI Onyx 350 offer three times greater rack density and a 30% improvement in total cost of ownership.