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10 Feb 2003
#8975
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Enterprise-class Availability, Scalability at Entry-level Price
Sun Fire V1280 Sever Ideal for Mainframe Rehosting, HPTC
The new Sun Fire V1280 system is the first rack-optimized, 12-way
system to deliver enterprise-class availability and scalability at
entry-level prices. The largest memory of virtually any 12-way system
in its class, plus its Dynamic Reconfiguration technology and
hot-swappable CPU/memory boards, make the Sun Fire V1280 server ideal
for mainframe rehosting, Wintel server consolidation and High Performance Technical Computing (HPTC).
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10 Feb 2003
#8983
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Sun Fire Blade Platform: First Multi-Architecture Solution
Managed by N1 Provisioning Server 3.0 Blades Edition
The Sun Fire Blade Platform enables
users to combine and manage the Solaris Operating Environment
(Solaris OE), Linux, SPARC processor and x86 architectures, along with special
function blades, in a single chassis. Another new product, the N1
provisioning Server 3.0 Blades Edition, is the platform's management
environment, which gives administrators the ability to manage up to 20
times the number of servers and reduce deployment time from days to
hours.
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10 Feb 2003
#8984
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Sun Lowers Prices on Sun Fire Midrange, High-end Server Line
Processor Enhancements, Lower TCO Save Up to 25-35 Percent
Sun has reduced prices across the midrange and high-end of its
Solaris Operating Environment (Solaris OE) based Sun Fire
server line, including the Sun Fire 4800 servers, Sun Fire 6800 servers, Sun
Fire 12K servers and Sun Fire 15K servers. Combined with the
improvements in performance achieved with the 1.2 GHz UltraSPARC III
Cu processor, the Sun Fire server line now offers users reductions of
25 to 35 percent in TCO.
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10 Feb 2003
#8974
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Sun Fire V1280 System Sets Benchmark World Record
System Delivers Highest Dual-Node SPECjAppServer2001 Performance
The Sun Fire V1280 server is the first and only 12-way system able
to run the SPECjAppServer2001 benchmark in the dual-node category,
which confirms the product's scalability in application serving
workloads.
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10 Feb 2003
#8976
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Sun Fire V1280 Server Outperforms 16-CPU Intel-based Rivals
Better Availability, Scalability with Only 12 CPUs
The 12-CPU Sun Fire V1280 server outperformed Intel-based servers
with up to 16 CPUs while achieving 98 percent scalability in a
SPECint_rate2000 test conducted by Sun. The Sun Fire V1280 server
scored an estimated 73.2, as measured by the SPEC CPU2000 benchmark.
The results are characterized as "estimated" because compilers yet to
be released were used in their measurement. The Sun Fire V1280 server also
delivered a single-processor SPECint_rate2000 score of 6.22 (est.).
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10 Feb 2003
#8977
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Sun Fire 15K System Shines in SAP SD Benchmark Test
The 1.2 GHz UltraSPARC III Cu CPUs Provide 44 Percent Faster Business Workload Processing
Using a two-tier configuration of the SAP Standard Application Sales
and Distribution (SD) Benchmark, SAP R/3 Release 4.6C, Sun measured the
throughput rate of its Sun Fire 15K system with 104 1.2 GHz
UltraSPARC III CPUs and 576 GB of memory. The tested system, in
combination with Sun StorEdge T3 arrays and running the Solaris
Operating Environment (Solaris OE) and Oracle9i database, achieved
813,000 fully business-processed order line items per hour. The average
dialog response time attained in supporting 8000 SAP SD Benchmark users
was 1.81 seconds, a 44 percent faster rate than was demonstrated per
CPU than the system tested with 900 MHz UltraSPARC III CPUs attained.
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10 Feb 2003
#8978
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Sun Fire V880z Visualization System Beats SGI on Price
High-end System with Compact Footprint
The Sun Fire V880z server visualization system
combines the Sun Fire V880 server and the Sun
XVR-4000 graphics accelerator with the Solaris Operating
Environment (Solaris OE) to provide a high-end visualization system in
a compact footprint at a price that is less than half that of the
nearest competitor, the SGI Infinite-Reality system.
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10 Feb 2003
#8979
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iForce Partner Community Contributes to Sun Fire Blade Platform
Blade-centric Community Provides Pre-tested Solutions
Sun and certain members of its iForce Partner Community have formed
Network Computing 03 to support the introduction of the new Sun
Fire Blade Platform. Products from more than 20 Sun partners figure
in the blade platform. These include BEA Systems, Check Point Software
Technologies Ltd., Opsware, Oracle Corp. and Symantec Corp.
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10 Feb 2003
#8985
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Services to Support N1 and Data Centers
Assessments, Workshops, Environmental Services and More
Sun announced new services that will assist customers to deploy and
manage the new Sun Fire Blade Platform and N1 architectures,
putting them on a course towards assembling network computing elements
into N1 environments. Services include assessments, environmental
services of data centers, comprehensive support and RAS services.
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10 Feb 2003
#8987
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N1 Technology to Simplify Data Center
Automating Away Complexity
Cingular Wireless is the first of several pilot customers to deploy
Sun's N1 technology. Cingular will use N1 in its data center, located
in Alpharetta, GA, to increase efficiencies and save money.
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11 Feb 2003
#9005
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McNealy Discusses Sun Strategies
R&D Priorities and More
At Sun's announcement event on Monday, February 10, CEO Scott McNealy
talked with InformationWeek senior writer Aaron Ricadela about Sun's
R&D priorities, x86 and SPARC processors and reduced prices on some
Sun servers.
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10 Feb 2003
#8996
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Intelliun and Sun Demonstrate Rapid Application Development
VB Rewritten and Tested on Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition
In a trial test, Intelliun Corp. and Sun rewrote a client/server Visual
Basic application using The Virtual Enterprise (VE) from Intelliun,
running on the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE).
They demonstrated it on Fuel Reconciliations System (FRS) from
Professional Datasolutions, Inc. (PDI). It proved the applicability of
VE and Java technology for its complete line of software
offerings.
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