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Did You Know?
Get the Facts about Sun and x86
In the past year, Sun has been delivering low-cost, x86
solutions that give customers choice -- a choice of Solaris or Linux operating
systems, a choice of 32- or 64-bit microprocessors -- with full front-line
support available for each.
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Sun currently offers a growing range of x86-based hardware products, priced to
compete fiercely with similar products from other vendors.
Sun's x86 hardware products include:
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Sales of the Sun Fire V60x Server and Sun Fire V60x Compute Grid Rack
System helped to extend Sun's No. 1 unit share position in the high
performance and technical computing market space. (IDC Q4CY03 Worldwide
Technical Server Qview)
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In Q4 2003 Sun's HPTC units grew 133 percent compared with 68 percent for
the market as a whole over the same period in 2002, making Sun the only
tier one vendor to outgrow the market in units shipped in a year-over-year
basis. (IDC Q4CY03 Worldwide Technical Server Qview)
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The far-reaching Sun Microsystems-AMD alliance combines 20 years of enterprise
expertise with the industry economics of x86 to give customers extreme computing
performance at compelling prices and a growth path to 64-bit x86 computing.
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Sun and AMD are maximizing the performance of the Java platform and tools,
optimizing Solaris performance on AMD Opteron processors and undertaking
joint technology initiatives.
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Sun supports the Solaris OS on x86 (Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron processors)
architecture in addition to SPARC-based systems. Sun offers Solaris x86
right-to-use licenses at very competitive prices:
- 1 CPU systems: $99
- 2 CPU systems: $250
- 4 CPU systems: $1500
- 8 CPU systems: $2499 Non-commercial
(educational, developer) licenses are available at no charge and can be downloaded
at http://sun.com/software/download. Attractive OEM license terms are also offered.
Did you know...
There are more than a half million registered licenses for Solaris 9 x86. The
Solaris OS also runs on third-party x86 systems, including AMD Opteron
processor-based systems, further enabling flexibility and choice for the
customer. There are approximately 200 systems listed on the Solaris x86 hardware
compatibility list today, plus support for hundreds of add-in cards and peripherals.
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Sun has been offering Linux-based systems since August 2002. Sun ships and fully
supports Red Hat and SuSE Linux, which together make up more than 50 percent of
the Linux market (Evans Data Corp., Linux Development Survey, Spring 2004). Both
of these Linux distributions are qualified on all Sun x86 hardware platforms
(Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron processors). By buying their Linux systems from Sun,
customers gain "one-stop" support for their heterogeneous IT environment. List
prices for one-year Linux license starts at $299 for Red Hat (WS Standard),
$799 (ES Standard) and $799 for SuSE.
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The Delaware Biotechnology Institute purchased multiple Sun Fire V60x servers as
part of project BioWolf, the institute's new Grid Computing infrastructure. Sun
created a 128 dual-node Compute Grid Rack, which was recently ranked among the
30 most powerful academic supercomputers in the United States.
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The San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California at San Diego,
in cooperation with San Diego State University, is hosting a Website that runs
on a 12 CPU Sun Fire B1600 Blade Server cluster, including Sun Fire B100x blade
servers to allow members of the public anywhere on the Internet to view and
manipulate the actual data beamed back to Earth from the NASA/JPL Mars rovers
and do mission planning for the rovers with the same software that NASA uses.
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The Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, Department of Genetics, is
using Sun's Solaris OS x86 Platform Edition running on a cluster of 700
dual-processor machines. To date, this is the world's largest cluster dedicated
to statistical genetic analysis of data from human and animal families. The goal
of this research is to identify genes influencing susceptibility to common
diseases such as heart disease and diabetes. By using Solaris OS x86 Platform
Edition, the development team was able to quickly and easily develop a cluster
environment, saving valuable time, money, and resources.
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