The Most Powerful Graphics System and Software Anywhere
The ultimate in interactive performance starts with InfinitePerformance graphics. With sustained performance scaling from 17.7 million to 141 million triangles per second and 484 million to 3.8 billion pixels per second, you have the power to interact with your toughest problems and achieve results you never thought possible. The SGI Onyx 3000 series infrastructure is the second key component in achieving maximum application performance. Based on the SGI^® NUMAflex^TM modular computing architecture, the SGI Onyx 3000 series delivers the scalable shared-memory computing, bandwidth, and connectivity required to process complex data sets, simulate reality, and keep the graphics engines running at full speed. The SGI Onyx 3000 with InfinitePerformance graphics takes modularity and flexibility to a new level that lets you meet today's visualization, compute, and complex data management requirements and the shifting demands of any application. Start with 4 CPUs and one entry-level graphics subsystem and protect your investment with smooth upgrades all the way up to 128 CPUs and 8 InfinitePerformance graphics pipelines.

The final piece of the application-performance puzzle is scalable system software and APIs. For more than 10 years, SGI has been the leader in scalable shared-memory systems and software. IRIX^® is the industry's most scalable shared-memory operating system with proven scalability to 512 CPUs, 1TB of memory, and hundreds of I/O devices. OpenGL Performer^TM, OpenGL Optimizer^TM, OpenGL Multipipe^TM SDK, and SGI^® extensions to OpenGL^® provide easy access to the scalable visualization power of the SGI Onyx 3000 series with InfinitePerformance graphics, while OpenGL Vizserver^TM makes this power available to desktop users throughout your organization.

The Ultimate in Interactive Performance
The SGI Onyx 3000 series with InfinitePerformance graphics delivers up to 141 million triangles per second and 3.8 billion pixels per second of sustained performance to a single display to enable the interactive manipulation and analysis of the most complex problems in an organization. Combined with the high level of I/O and compute capabilities available on the SGI Onyx 3000 series with InfinitePerformance graphics, complex tasks in engineering analysis and scientific visualization can be completed in seconds instead of minutes and in hours instead of days.

Visual Area Networking
Visual Area Networking is SGI's vision and strategy for providing universal access to advanced visualization capabilities. Visual Area Networks leverage existing network infrastructure to enable anyone within an organization--whether they use SGI, SUN^TM, Linux^®, Windows NT^®, Windows^® 2000 or Windows^® XP desktops or even mobile computing devices--to transparently access powerful applications that take advantage of the graphics, compute, and I/O power of an SGI Onyx 3000 series with InfinitePerformance graphics.

OpenGL Vizserver is the first software product that supports the Visual Area Networking strategy. It enables high-performance rendering applications that take full advantage of the InfinitePerformance graphics pipeline to run unaltered on Onyx family systems with the results delivered directly to and controlled by the end user. I/O-intensive applications scream with up to 100 times faster performance than a local workstation, CPU-intensive applications can run 10 or 20 times faster, and unique high-quality rendering is now available to all users. As a result, users can better understand and solve complex problems and work together as a team because they have access to applications and functionality that were previously unavailable on the standard desktop environment.

The SGI Onyx 3000 series with InfinitePerformance graphics is the perfect platform to support Visual Area Networking since it delivers high performance and scalable compute capabilities at an affordable price. An organization can support up to 8 distinct users or geographically dispersed collaborative teams from a single SGI Onyx 3000 series system.

Unparalleled Flexibility
SGI Onyx 3000 series graphics systems take modularity to a new level that lets you meet the shifting demands of any application. You can scale graphics, CPUs, storage, and I/O components independently, allowing you to deploy, upgrade, service, expand, and redeploy your system in every possible dimension. With brick-by-brick modularity, you can build and maintain a system optimally, with a level of flexibility that makes obsolescence almost obsolete.

The SGI Onyx 3000 series with InfinitePerformance graphics can easily play multiple roles within your organization. Because each system integrates scalable graphics, high-performance computing, and complex data management capabilities, it can be simultaneously used in each of several ways with resources moving from one mode to another as demands change during the day and night:

• The ultimate in interactive performance with the Scalable Graphics Compositor
• A multiuser workstation for directly connected local users or remote users and collaborative teams utilizing OpenGL Vizserver
• A group collaboration engine driving cost-effective multi-channel SGI^® Reality Center^TM environments
• A scalable high-performance computing system
• A complex data management system

A Multiuser Workstation
The SGI Onyx 3000 series with InfinitePerformance graphics can be configured for up to 8 independent operators to work with large models while sharing memory, CPU resources, and I/O bandwidth. By sharing highly scalable resources and the power of InfinitePerformance graphics, users can interact with data sets that greatly exceed the capabilities of desktop workstations. By combining low total cost of ownership with the ultimate in application performance, compute power, and I/O bandwidth, the SGI Onyx 3000 series with InfinitePerformance graphics becomes the ultimate workgroup resource.

Group Decision Making in SGI Reality Center Environments
SGI Reality Center environments deliver the ultimate group-visualization and decision-making capability, and the SGI Onyx 3000 series with InfinitePerformance graphics brings new levels of affordability and performance to these environments so that you can deploy them at all levels of your organization. At the high end, the SGI Onyx 3000 series with InfinitePerformance graphics makes it possible for groups to interact with and evaluate their most complex problems. At the low end, the affordability and performance of the SGI Onyx 3000 series with InfinitePerformance graphics allows individual teams to have their own high-performance group decision-making environment instead of having to schedule time on a corporate resource. Because teams can access this resource any time they want, they can make time-critical decisions at the team level when they have the greatest impact on product schedules and results.