Computer Systems 2003 Top Products Award Winner: Onyx 350
SGI Onyx 350 visualization system and new Visual Area Networking (VAN) capabilities with OpenGL Vizserver 3.1 software provides more economical access to supercomputer-class visualization and enhanced multi-user collaboration for scientific researchers and design engineers in smaller organizations. Two new Onyx 350 advanced visualization configurations are available to meet these demands. Both offer up to 32 600 MHz or 700 MHz MIPS R16000 processors, 64GB of high-performance shared memory, and maximum I/O rates of over 22GB per second via multiple independent PCI-X buses. These solutions also add digital media capabilities, including integrated support for film resolution, high-definition and standard-definition digital media I/O, and graphics-to-video output.