SGI Onyx
Deskside Onyx | |
| Manufacturer | Silicon Graphics, Inc. |
|---|---|
| Type | Graphics supercomputer |
| Release date | January 1993 |
| Introductory price | |
| Discontinued | March 31, 1999 |
| Operating system | IRIX 5.0–6.5.22 (for R10000 CPU models) |
| CPU | MIPS R4400, MIPS R10000 |
| Memory | 64 MB to 16 GB |
| Storage | Up to 30 GB internal and 2 TB total |
| Graphics | |
| Platform | MIPS |
| Predecessor | SGI Crimson |
| Successor | SGI Onyx2 |
| Related | SGI Challenge |
| Website | sgi.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 1997-06-05) |
Onyx is a series of visualization systems designed and manufactured by SGI, introduced in 1993 and offered in two models, deskside and rackmount, codenamed Eveready and Terminator respectively. Onyx's basic system architecture is based on the SGI Challenge servers, but with graphics hardware.
Onyx was used for one of the first television broadcasts of real-time 3D computer graphics, in the 1994 US national elections. Onyx was the basis of development of Nintendo 64 hardware and games, launched in 1996.
Onyx was succeeded by the Onyx2 in 1996 and was discontinued on March 31, 1999.