Configurations

The Silicon Graphics® Onyx4™ UltimateVision™ family comes in three basic configurations--power, team, and extreme--and they are all compatible with today's suite of Onyx® applications. Each configuration provides fine-grain scalability so that you can create the perfect balance of computational, bandwidth, and rendering power to meet your requirements. And as your needs change, modules can be easily added to your existing system to provide you more visualization power in the future.

Image of the Silicon Graphics Onyx4 in the power configuration Enabling Power Users
The Silicon Graphics Onyx4 UltimateVision power configuration is ideally designed for small teams and power users. This configuration delivers Onyx capability with a power-user price and form factor, enabling individuals to blaze through the most demanding data sets. Delivering 20M pixels of highly interactive graphics, Onyx4 has enough power to interactively drive two ultrahigh-resolution 10M pixel LCD displays, all in a system that can slip under a desk.
 
Image of the Silicon Graphics Onyx4 in the team configuration Transforming Team Productivity
Today's workflow, data sets, and distributed teams provide tremendous challenges to all organizations. The Silicon Graphics Onyx4 UltimateVision team configuration brings the performance, power, and production capability of large-scale SGI® Reality Center® facilities to small team rooms. Team productivity is transformed by the ability to load data sets at multi-gigabytes-per-second rates, interact with 32GB of data in memory, and scale graphics capability seamlessly, all in a deskside form factor.
 
Image of the Silicon Graphics Onyx4 in the extreme configuration Tackling Extreme Problems
The Silicon Graphics Onyx4 UltimateVision extreme configuration is designed to enable leaders in their fields to understand the world's most demanding problems. Breakthroughs and discoveries are possible with the Onyx4 system's ability to rapidly digest and visualize multi-terabyte data sets, transforming insurmountable problems into powerful assets. Imagine groundbreaking insights that can come from driving holographic displays and interactively roaming through terascale computational data sets.

  Onyx4 UltimateVision
Power Configuration
Onyx4 UltimateVision
Team Configuration
Onyx4 UltimateVision
Extreme Configuration
System Specifications
Processor quantity 2-8 8-16 16-64
Graphics pipes 2-4 4-8 8-32
Memory Up to 16GB Up to 64GB Up to 128GB
I/O expansion Up to 8 PCI/PCI-X slots Up to 32 PCI/PCI-X slots Up to 64 PCI/PCI-X slots
Form factor 19" rackmount or 17U tall 19" rack 19" rackmount or 17U tall 19" rack 39U tall 19" rack
Height (each U is 1.75 inches) 4U or 6U 6U-10U 10U-34U
Voltage per module 110/220 VAC auto-sensing worldwide power supply 110/220 VAC auto-sensing worldwide power supply 110/220 VAC auto-sensing worldwide power supply
Power 1200 W max. 2700 W max. 6600 W max.
Heat dissipation 5000 BTU/hr max. 9000 BTU/hr max. 33000 BTU/hr max.
Electrical service type: racked systems NEMA L6-30R, 208
VAC at 30 amp (rack PDU)
NEMA L6-30R, 208
VAC at 30 amp (rack PDU)
NEMA L6-30R, 208
VAC at 30 amp (rack PDU)
Visualization Features
Anti-aliasing multisample 2, 4, or 6 subsample full-scene AA; 2x, 4x, 8x, or 16x anisotropic texture filters
Color fidelity 32-bit RGBA rendered to the frame buffer; 96-bit RGBA floating-point rendered to off-screen buffers
Stereo Yes
Genlock Inter-pipe synchronization, with external source support
OpenGL® pipeline OpenGL® 1.4 compliant, future compatibility with OpenGL® 2.0
Floating point buffers Yes
24-bit Z buffer Yes
Scalable Graphics Compositor Yes