SGI Onyx 3000 Documentation

G-brick rear panel, from the owner's guide below (Figure 2-2)

SGI documentation for the SGI Onyx 3000: the owner's guide for the graphics system, two addenda that followed it, and the controller software guide shared with the rest of SGI's NUMAflex systems. The compute and I/O bricks are described in SGI's SGI Origin 3000 Series Owner's Guide, which the Onyx guide refers to; see SGI Origin 3000.

Owner's guide (007-4264-002)

Silicon Graphics, SGI Onyx 3000 Series Graphics System Hardware Owner's Guide, document number 007-4264-002, November 2001 (first issued September 2000), 176 pages. It covers the Onyx 3200, 3400 and 3800 with InfiniteReality (G-brick) or InfinitePerformance (V-brick) graphics.

Contents: 1, Introducing the SGI Onyx 3000 Series Graphics Systems (p. 1), with the brick list (pp. 4–5) and block diagrams; 2, G-brick, V-brick, and N-brick (p. 35), including the DG5 options and 13W3 pinout; 3, Configurations and Cabling (p. 61), with monitor, keyboard, Ethernet and audio connections; 4, Using the SGI Onyx 3000 Series Graphics System (p. 91), with safety (p. 92), powering on (p. 95) and powering off (p. 109) at the L2 touch display; 5, Customer-replaceable Units (p. 121), the G-brick front panels and L1 module; 6, Graphics System Controllers (p. 127), with the L1 messages (p. 132) and the L2 controller (p. 134); appendix A, Technical Specifications (p. 141); B, Regulatory Specifications (p. 147).

It gives no board-level repair information, no parts list and no component values, and refers to the Origin 3000 owner's guide for the C-, I-, P-, X-, R- and D-bricks.

Download: File:SGI Onyx 3000 Series Graphics System Hardware Owner's Guide (007-4264-002).pdf

N-brick addendum (007-4424-001)

Silicon Graphics, SGI Onyx 3000 N-Brick Addendum, document number 007-4424-001, 4 pages. It introduces the N-brick, gives its firmware and IRIX requirements, and shows multi-rack example configurations with three and five pipes.

Download: File:SGI Onyx 3000 N-Brick Addendum (007-4424-001).pdf

InfiniteReality4 addendum (007-4525-001)

Silicon Graphics, InfiniteReality4 Addendum to Silicon Graphics Onyx2, SGI Onyx 3000 Series, and SGI Onyx 300 Guides, document number 007-4525-001, 2002, 4 pages. It lists the InfiniteReality4 boards (GE16-4, DG5, RM11), the IRIX release needed for an upgrade, and the memory increases over InfiniteReality3.

Download: File:SGI InfiniteReality4 Addendum to Onyx2, Onyx 3000 and Onyx 300 Guides (007-4525-001).pdf

Other documents

• The SGI L1 and L2 Controller Software User's Guide, 007-3938-006, with the full L1 and L2 command sets, is hosted as File:SGI L1 and L2 Controller Software User's Guide (007-3938-006).pdf.
• sgistuff.net lists further SGI manuals for the family, including the SGI 3000 Family Site Planning Guide and the SGI InfinitePerformance Scalable Compositor Owner's Guide.