Sun announces fastest SPARCstation 20, SPARCserver 20; Reduces prices 15% on SPARCstation, SPARCserver 20 product line.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 2, 1995--Continuing its drive to provide power desktop users with the best value in the industry, 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 today announced the fastest multiprocessor and uniprocessor systems in the company's popular SPARCstationTM 20 family of high-performance workstations. The new desktops sport a powerful 150 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. 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 processor with 512 Kilobytes of cache and provide a 30 percent performance improvement over current SPARCstation 20 systems. The multiprocessor SPARCstation 20 model 152MP features two 150 MHz SPARC processors. The new SPARCstation 20 TurboGX model 151 uses a single 150 MHz SPARC processor. Yet it is priced at only $18,995 for 32 megabytes of memory, a 1-gigabyte disk drive and 20-inch high-resolution color monitor See monitor. . Sun, which holds more than 90 percent of the UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). multiprocessing workstation market, is pricing the new dual-processor SPARCstation 20 model 152MP as low as $25,495. The company also unveiled the first desktop server based Refers to hardware or software that runs in the server. Contrast with client based. on the 150 MHz SPARC processor, the SPARCserver 20 model 151 and model 152MP, which provides a 30 percent boost in compute server (computer, parallel) compute server - A kind of parallel processor where the parallel processors have no I/O except via a bus or other connection to a front-end processor which handles all I/O to disks, terminals and network. performance. Additionally, Sun announced repricing Repricing To change the price of an asset. In derivatives, it sometimes refers to the exchange of options of with different strike prices. repricing of the most popular SPARCstation 20 and SPARCserver 20 systems by up to 15 percent, as well as new pricing for upgrades and SPARC module x-options. "Our customers are anticipating the announcement of our UltraSPARC systems," said Gene Banman, vice president and general manager of Sun's Desktop Systems Group. "But these new SPARCstation 20 desktops are another major milestone in Sun's ongoing strategy to offer the best value in the industry to power desktop users. The new systems, plus the price reductions and upgrade program for current users, emphasize Sun's commitment to deliver increasing performance while preserving the users' investments in hardware and software, especially for Solaris 1 users." The new high-end SPARCstation 20 desktop is a general-purpose system designed for performance-conscious users running a range of applications, including modeling, simulation, MCAD MCAD Microsoft Certified Application Developer MCAD Mechanical Computer Aided Design MCAD Medium-Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase (inherited metabolic disease) MCAD Minneapolis College of Art and Design and EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. , or any application with compute-intensive requirements. Systems With 30 Percent Better Performance; Excellent Upgrade Options The uniprocessor SPARCstation 20 model 151 features 169.4 SPECint92 and 208.2 SPECfp92. The dual-processor SPARCserver 20 model 152MP features 7310 SPECrate_int92 and 8758 SPECrate_fp92. The SPARCstation 20 TGX TGX Theragenics Corporation (stock symbol) TGX Trajectory Generator External model 151 with a 150 MHz SPARC processor with 512 Kbytes of cache, 32 Mbytes of memory, expandable to 512 Mbytes; a 1 gigabyte disk drive, expandable to 353 gigabytes; four SBus expansion slots, accelerated graphics and a 20-inch high-resolution color display sells for $18,995. The dual-processor model 152MP with 64 Mbytes of memory, a 1 gigabyte disk drive, four SBus slots and a 20-inch color monitor sells for $25,495. Comparably equipped systems from Hewlett-Packard list for more than $21,000 for a uniprocessor system or more than $34,000 for a multiprocessor system. A comparable uniprocessor system from SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. lists for more than $23,000. The SPARCserver 20 model 151 comes standard with 32 Mbytes of memory, one 2.1 gigabyte internal disk drive and four SBus expansion slots and sells for $17,495. The model 152 with 64 Mbytes of memory and two 2.1 gigabyte drives sells for $28,795. The 150MHz SPARC MBus modules are fully compatible with current SPARCstation 20 and SPARCstation 10 systems. Users simply replace their existing processor modules for a 30-percent performance increase while maintaining 100-percent binary compatibility See binary compatible. with all their applications. Both the SPARCstation and SPARCserver 20 model 151 systems require the SolarisTM 1.1.2, Solaris 2.4 or later operating environment. The dual-processor model 152MP systems require the Solaris 2.4 operating environment. Price Reductions of 15 Percent In addition to announcing the new workstation models, Sun has also repriced its current SPARCstation and SPARCserver 20 families, as well as system upgrades and x-options by as much as 15 percent. Specifically, the price of the SPARCstation 20 model 71 with a 20-inch monitor has been reduced from $19,795 to $16,995, and the price of the model 712MP with a 20-inch monitor has been lowered from $25,295 to $21,495; the price of the model HS21 with a 20-inch monitor has been reduced from $18,995 to $16,995; and the price of the model HS22MP has been reduced from $24,495 to $21,495. The new SPARCstation 20 model 151 and model 152MP desktop systems, desktop servers, upgrades and options will be available in December, 1995. Sun Microsystems Computer Company is a world leader in the design, manufacture and sale of network computing systems and is a division of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Recognized for quality and innovation, the company's SPARC workstations and multiprocessing servers each hold the No. 1 UNIX marketshare position. These systems are used primarily by businesses, educational institutions and governments worldwide for technical, commercial, industrial and software development applications. -0- Note to Editors: Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun Logo, Solaris The Network is the Computer and TurboGX are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, licensed through X/Open Company, Ltd. Press announcements and other information about Sun Microsystems are available on the Internet via the World Wide Web using a tool such as Netscape or NCSA (1) (National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Urbana-Champaign, IL, www.ncsa.uiuc.edu) A high-performance computing facility located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Mosaic. Type http://www.sun.com at the URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. prompt For reader inquiries, telephone 1-800-821-4643. CONTACT: Sun Microsystems Computer Company Larry Lettieri, 415/786-8152 or Burson-Marsteller Charlie Scibetta, 415/764-1377 |
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