SUN BRINGS THE POWER AND RELIABILITY OF ENTERPRISE COMPUTING TO NEW DESKSIDE WORKSTATIONS; New Desksides Combine Ultra Enterprise Computing and Ultra Workstations Graphics.MENLO PARK Menlo Park. 1 Residential city (1990 pop. 28,040), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1874. Electronic equipment and aerospace products are manufactured in the city. Menlo College and a Stanford Univ. research institute are there. 2 Uninc. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 20, 1996--Sun Microsystems, Inc. today unveiled two new members of the Ultra(TM) workstation family. The Ultra(TM) 3000 and 4000 Creator 3D workstations will allow for heavy multi-processing, large amounts of memory and high computing performance while simultaneously providing the high-end graphics performance that Ultra workstation customers expect from Sun. "For heavy technical computing many workstation users need symmetrical MP systems with more than 4 processors, lots of memory and high performance 3D graphics all in one system," said Gene Banman, vice president and general manager of Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. Computer Company's Desktop Systems Group. "These new high end systems deliver the computation power and graphics needed for high end computational, visual computing The use of computers for 3D modeling and animation. See visualization. ." Ultra Enterprise Architecture The Ultra 3000 Creator 3D workstation and Ultra 4000 Creator 3D workstation use Sun's Ultra Enterprise technologies to deliver the industry's best performance, scalability and reliability for demanding technical computing applications as well as enterprise-wide networks. These new desksides use the 64-bit UltraSPARC(TM)-1 processor, which includes two integer arithmetic Arithmetic without fractions. A computer performing integer arithmetic ignores any fractions that are derived. For example, 8 divided by 3 would yield the whole number 2. See integer. and logical units, a fast floating-point unit, powerful graphics instructions, and both on-chip and secondary cache memory. The external bus interface is 128 bits wide and designed to maintain superscalar A CPU architecture that allows more than one instruction to be executed in one clock cycle. See pipeline processing. (architecture) superscalar - A superscalar architecture is a uniprocessor that can execute two or more scalar operations in parallel. throughput. The processor executes up to four instructions per clock cycle and permits out-of-order completion, enabling very fast integer and floating point computations. Sun's multi-media Visual Instruction Set (VIS(TM)) technology is built in, accelerating 2D and 3D graphics, video compression, decompression and image display and manipulation. The Ultra 3000 Creator 3D deskside system can accommodate up to six processors, up to three Creator 3D graphics boards, up to 6 gigabytes of main memory and up to 42 gigabytes of internal mass storage. The Ultra 4000 Creator 3D system can accommodate up to 14 processors, four creator 3D graphics boards, 14 gigabytes of main memory and 16.8 gigabytes of internal storage. Creator Graphics Provides High Performance for Range of Applications When designing Creator Graphics technology, Sun created a system that not only withstands the rigors of today's intensive graphics environments, but one that can excel and scale for years to come. For example, most graphics technology has been loosely integrated into the overall system. As a result, even powerful graphics engines are relegated to slower peripheral buses, where poor throughput hampers their performance. Creator Graphics technology replaces separate, specialized frame buffers with a single, high performance, low cost architecture. In addition, as graphics rendering and manipulation requirements are regularly increasing, graphics subsystems must deliver scalable performance. Both Creator Graphics technology and Ultra Enterprise architecture offer the availability to scale up in rendering performance as Ultra system CPU speed increases. Price and Availability The new desksides are available now. Pricing for Ultra 3000 Creator 3D workstation with one 167 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. processor (expandable to 6), 20-inch color monitor, 256 megabytes of memory, and 4 gigabytes of disk starts at $52,100, and Ultra 4000 Creator 3D workstation with one 167 MHz processor (expandable to 14), 256 megabytes of memory, and 4-gigabytes of disk starts at $85,500. Upgrades for existing systems start with an entry price of $45,200. With annual revenues of more than $7 billion, Sun Microsystems, Inc. provides products and services that enable customers to build and maintain open network computing See ONC. Open Network Computing - (ONC) Sun's network protocols. environments. Widely recognized as a proponent of open standards, the company is involved in the design, manufacture and sale of products, technologies and services for commercial and technical computing. Sun Microsystems was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California For the census-designated place, see Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California. For other places called "Mountain View", see . Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city gets its name from the views of the Santa Cruz Mountains. . -0- Note to Editors: Sun, the Sun logo, Sun Microsystems, VIS, Ultra and Ultra Enterprise are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. in the United States and other countries. 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