Origin 3000

Supercomputer family Origin 3000 and Onyx 3000DeveloperSilicon GraphicsTypeServer, visualization computer systemReleasedJuly 2000; 26 years ago (July 2000)Discontinued29 December 2006Operating systemIRIXCPUMIPS R12000, MIPS R12000A, MIPS R14000, MIPS R14000AMemory512 MB–1 TBGraphicsInfiniteReality, InfinitePerformancePredecessorSGI Origin 2000 and SGI Onyx2SuccessorSGI Altix, Onyx4, and SGI PrismRelatedOrigin 300 and Onyx 300WebsiteOrigin 3000Onyx 3000 The Origin 3000 and the Onyx 3000 is a family of mid-range and high-end computers developed and manufactured by SGI. The Origin 3000 is a server, and the Onyx 3000 is a visualization system. Both systems were introduced in July 2000 to succeed the Origin 2000 and the Onyx2 respectively. These systems ran the IRIX 6.5 Advanced Server Environment operating system. Entry-level variants of these systems based on the same architecture but with a different hardware implementation are known as the Origin 300 and Onyx 300. The Origin 3000 was succeeded by the Altix 3000 in 2004 and the last model was discontinued on 29 December 2006, while the Onyx 3000 was succeeded by the Onyx4 and the Itanium-based Prism in 2004 and the last model was d