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The multiplatform, blazing fast Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Family stands apart in the market place with world records in performance and
price/performance. It claims top spots in well-recognized industry standard and application benchmarks and demonstrates outstanding
performance on real-world applications when compared to competition.
The Sun Ultra 20 M2 workstation, configured with the Next-Generation AMD Opteron Model 1220SE processor and running Solaris 10 Operating
System and Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE 5.0) software, achieved a new high watermark score of 723.11 Mflops on this Java-based
benchmark. SciMark 2.0 measures the performance of numerical codes
occurring in scientific and engineering applications and reports a composite score in Mflops (Millions of floating point operations per
second) that provides an indication of how well the underlying system performs on these types of applications.
The Sun Ultra 20 M2 workstation, that was running the 64-bit Edition of Windows XP Professional, posted the highest score for all single socket systems on OCUS v.5 benchmark for PTC Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire, one of the most prominent MCAD applications used world-wide. The Sun Ultra 20 workstation, that was equipped with AMD Opteron Model 1218 processor, 8 GB of memory and NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500 video card, posted the score of 1878 seconds, that is the second only to Sun Ultra 40 score and demonstrates superior performance over the competing workstations from HP and Dell, such as HP xw9300 and Dell Precision 380. Moreover, the Sun Ultra 20 workstation also posted the best single socket result for the new 64-bit version of the benchmark, that stresses system memory beyond 4GB and requires 64-bit Operating System.
The Sun Ultra 20 M2 workstation is the world's fastest single socket x86 system on the floating point suite of the SPEC CPU2000 benchmark.
Based on real world applications, the SPEC CPU2000 benchmark measures the performance of the processor, memory and compiler on the tested
system. The Sun Ultra 20 M2 workstation, equipped with the fastest available next-generation AMD Opteron Model 1220SE processor, in
combination with Solaris 10 OS and Sun Studio 11 software, posted a SPECfp2000 score of 3073, which surpasses all published results by
systems based on the most recent Intel's Core architecture.
The updated version of this benchmark, tailored to the popular CAD/CAM/CAE application, now supports 64-bit operating systems and uses a complex model of a race car assembly to exercise graphics, CPU and I/O areas of system performance. The Sun Ultra 20 workstation, outfitted with one AMD Opteron Model 156 processor, the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450 graphics card and running 64-bit version of Windows XP, stands out by posting a composite score of 2.78, beating the the HP xw9300 workstation's composite score of 2.5 by 11%.
This benchmark was developed to capture the typical activities of a CAD/CAM designer, that include I/O, CPU and graphics-intensive operations. The suite consist of eight tests from which a single composite score is derived. The Sun Ultra 20 Workstation, equipped with AMD Opteron Model 154 processors and NVIDIA FX3450 video card, and running 64-bit version of Windows XP operating system, topped the chart in both performance and price/performance categories, outrunning HP xw9300 workstation by 76%, while costing 2 times less. The Sun Ultra workstation achieved SPEC APC SolidWorks 2005 Overall Composite score of 4.07, with cost per composite of US $1033, while the HP xw9300 workstation's SPEC APC SolidWorks 2005 Overall Composite score was only 2.3, and the cost per Composite was US $2071.
The Sun Ultra 20 Workstation, running SuSE 9 offers a tangible alternative. As demonstrated by the Ensight benchmark, the workstation,
equipped with the AMD Opteron Model 154 processor and NVIDIA FX 3450 graphics card, delivers a composite score of 8.75, providing the best
price/performance combination, while performing faster than the nearest competing system, the HP XW 9300.
The Mathematica benchmark stresses the full range of mathematical functions and includes nonlinear polynomial expansions. The Sun Ultra 20
Workstation, posted a result of 5.32465 using the AMD Opteron 154 processor and established the best price/performance result by relying on advance optimization techniques offered by Sun Studio 11 software. Recompiling the Open Source GMP library, used for arbitrary precision arithmetic and floating point operations, with Studio 11 software improved the benchmarking score by up to 30%.
The Sun Ultra 20 Workstation achieved the highest overall score of 657.37 Mflops (Millions of floating point operations per second) on the
Java-based SciMark composite benchmark that measures the performance of numerical codes occurring in scientific and engineering applications.
This demonstrates the true capabilities of the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation when configured with the AMD Opteron Model 152 processor running the
Solaris 10 Operating System and Java 2 Platform (J2SE 5.0) software.
The Sun Ultra 20 workstation, equipped with one AMD Opteron Model 152 processor, 4 GB of memory and the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400 and running the
64-bit Edition of Windows XP Professional, posted the top result on OCUS (Olaf Corten's Utilities) benchmark V4 for PTC Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire,
one of the most prominent MCAD applications used world-wide. This result demonstrates superior performance and price/performance over the
comparably configured workstations from HP, IBM and Dell. Specifically, the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation is 11% faster and 34% better in
price/performance than the HP XW9300, 30% faster and 12% better in price/performance than the DELL Precision 380 and 25% faster and 53%
better in price/performance than the IBM IntelliStation workstations.
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