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SUN/AMD PARTNERSHIP MILESTONES
Wednesday, Nov 17, 8:30 PM ET
Today, Sun Microsystems and AMD celebrated
their first anniversary as strategic partners. The milestones below
commemorate the highlights of this fruitful and ever-expanding
partnership.
November 17, 2003
Sun/AMD Strategic Alliance formed.
February 10, 2004
Sun announces the Sun Fire V20z server, its first system with AMD Opteronª processors.
February 18, 2004
Sun and AMD host a chalk talk during Intel Developer Forum to illustrate Sun and AMD's technology and innovation in the 64-bit computing space. Sun's Chris Johnson and AMD's Kevin McGrath demonstrate how core competencies and technological innovation from Sun and AMD = high performance and investment protection.
March 30, 2004
Sun announces that the Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology at the University of Leeds in the UK will host one of the first HPTC cluster implementations, using the Sun Fire V20z server based on the AMD Opteron processor.
In addition, Sun receives positive feedback from channel partners and resellers, including Moca, GE Access and Tech Data, expressing tremendous interest in shipping the AMD Opteron processor-based Sun Fire V20z servers in volume.
April 19, 2004
Sun announces the Secure Web Server Reference Architecture, its first Reference Architecture to include one of the industry's fastest secure Web server, the AMD Opteron processor-based Sun Fire V20z server, according to the SPECweb99_SSL benchmark published on March 20, 2004.
April 22, 2004
Sun and Oracle publish the first SPECjAppServer2002 result with the AMD Opteron processor-based Sun Fire V20z server and Oracle Application Server 10g, demonstrating a price/performance world record, as of April 21, 2004.
May 11, 2004
Sun sets a 2-way world record on two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution Standard Application benchmark with the AMD Opteron processor-based Sun Fire V20z server, according to the SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark based on certification number 2004025.
May 18, 2004
AMD announces new additions to the AMD Opteron processor family Ð Models 850, 250 and 150. The Sun Fire V20z server, equipped with the AMD Opteron processor, Model 250 demonstrated to be one of the fastest two CPU secure web server according to the SPECweb99_SSL benchmark as of May 18, 2004.
June 1, 2004
AMD announces a strategic alliance with Broadcom to develop AMD Opteron processor-based server chipset solutions. Sun supports AMD's strategic alliance with Broadcom, which demonstrates aggressive moves to grow the ecosystem that Sun is helping to develop.
June 14, 2004
AMD announces a technology milestone with the completed design of its AMD64 dual-core processors. Sun confirms that dual-core, industry-standard processors are the best choice for the industry as customers require the best price-performance in their systems.
June 29, 2004
At Sun's JavaOne Developer Conference in San Francisco, Sun announced a Sun Java Developer promotion with a pricing twist. CEO Scott McNealy said that Sun would list a developer bundle on eBay with an opening bid starting at just a penny. The bundle included Sun Java Studio Enterprise, sample code, tutorials and an AMD Opteron processor-based workstation.
July 26, 2004
Sun and AMD both announce Sun's broadened x86 portfolio with the latest in a family of AMD Opteron processor-based Solaris systems, the Sun Fire V40z server, and Sun Java Workstation W1100z and Sun Java Workstation W2100z, which run applications for the Solaris OS, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux, and Microsoft Windows with Microsoft Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) certifications.
August 2, 2004
The University of Chicago's Economic Research Center is the first to realize high performance advantages of Sun systems equipped with AMD Opteron processors and PathScale's EKO compilers.
August 3, 2004
At the LinuxWorld 2004
Conference in San Francisco, Sun demonstrates customer and partner momentum for its AMD Opteron processor based systems, with support from iForce Partner EDS, and customers including Keyhole, Mentor Graphics Corporation, Biomedical Informatics Research Networks (BIRN), Conoco Phillips, ST Microelectronics, University of Michigan and University of Utah/CADE Lab. In addition, Sun announced that its ISV ecosystem continued to grow with nearly 240 partners, as of August 3, 2004.
Sun's John Fanelli and AMD's Margaret Lewis also participated in a Sun-sponsored media and analyst chalk talk to discuss the benefits of running Sun's Solaris OS on x86 systems.
August 4, 2004
Sun announced multiple promotions on eBay, auctioning its servers and workstations equipped with AMD Opteron processors, as well as the Sun Fire V20z Enterprise Essentials, which bundles the AMD Opteron processor-based Sun Fire V20z server, a 3-year subscription to the Solaris OS and the Right to Use License, upgrades to the Solaris 10 OS and a full 3-year SunSpectrucm Silver support services. Sun also announced the Sun Java Developer Enterprise W1100z Promotion, which also bundles the workstation, Solaris OS and SunSpectrum Silver support services.
August 11, 2004
Sun and Metapa announce that E! Networks, the world's largest producer of entertainment news programming, deployed a data warehousing solution that includes the AMD Opteron processor-based Sun Fire V40z server with Solaris OS, and Metapa's Cluster DataBase (CDB).
August 12, 2004
Sun announced that the Department of Energy's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory uses more than 230 Sun Fire V20z servers powered by AMD Opteron processors, more than 12 Terabytes of Sun StorEdge 6320 storage, the Solaris 9 OS, Sun Java Enterprise System and Java development software, Sun Grid Engine Enterprise Edition, Sun's StarOffice 7.0 office productivity platform, as well as advanced on-site training and support from Sun's Services division.
August 31, 2004
AMD demonstrates the world's first x86 dual-core processor. The Solaris OS combined with AMD Opteron processor-based servers and workstations will take full advantage of the AMD64 multi-core architecture, managing multi-threaded applications.
September 1, 2004
Sun offers special promotions for its record-performing systems based on AMD Opteron processors to Microsoft Certified Professionals and customers.
September 8, 2004
AMD announces that leading software vendors, including Sun, endorse AMD64 multi-core technology after AMD's demonstration of the industry's first x86 dual-core processors.
September 21, 2004
Sun announces price-performance leadership. The combination of Sun Fire V20z and Sun Fire V40z servers, based on the AMD Opteron processor, achieves world record price/performance according to the SPECjAppServer2002 benchmark, as of September 14, 2004. On a two-tier SAP ¨ Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark, the Sun Fire V40z server posts a world-record result for 4-way systems on Linux, as of September 13, 2004.
The Sun Java Workstation W1100z running the Solaris 10 OS achieved up to 61 percent better performance than the Dell Precision 650 workstation running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, according to a recent BLAST benchmark. And the AMD Opteron processor-based Sun Java Workstation W2100z demonstrated the best SPECompM2001 performance result for all 2-way systems, as of September 13, 2004.
September 21, 2004
Sun announced migration programs and promotional bundles of hardware and software designed specifically for financial services companies, including a Xeon trade-in program that enables Wall Street institutions to receive significant cash credits when they switch out existing Xeon servers and purchase new Sun Fire servers equipped with AMD Opteron processors.
September 29, 2004
Sun and AMD announced that Equity and Derivatives BNP Paribas, a major European bank, reduced operational risk while addressing Basle II Regulations. Equity and Derivatives BNP Paribas chose 116 AMD Opteron processor-based Sun Fire V20z servers to improve its grid computing infrastructure.
November 15, 2004
Sun and AMD celebrate their first year as strategic partners, as part of Sun's Network Computing '04 quarterly launch in San Jose, Calif.
November 15, 2004
Sun and AMD announced their successful collaboration on developing the
industry's first Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that supports 64-bit systems
powered by the AMD Opteron processor with AMD64 technology. The new JVM,
which is included free of charge in the Solaris 10 Java Development Kit,
enables developers to build efficient and high performing Java
technology-based applications for Linux, Windows and Solaris environments.
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