It took the best of Sun, Intel, and NVIDIA combined to create the new Sun Ultra 24 workstation.
All four execution cores of the Intel Core 2 Quad core processor are readily available to zoom this
new jewel through compute-intensive tasks in demanding multitasking environments and highly threaded
applications. Get the best price/performance and blow past graphics bottlenecks with Generation 2 PCI-Express
bus feeding the latest in high-performance NVIDIA graphics solutions. The legendary phrase "Sun Microsystems
workstation" takes on a new level of meaning with this system.
The Sun Ultra 24 workstation excels with the highest posted scores for all systems on OCUS v.5 benchmark for PTC Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire,
one of the most prominent MCAD applications used world-wide. In addition to the "Normal" version, the latest benchmark has a "64-bit"
version that stresses system memory beyond 4GB and requires a 64-bit Operating System. Regardless of the test suite, the Sun Ultra 24 workstation,
that was running the 64-bit Edition of Windows XP Professional, vanquished the competing workstations from HP and Dell, such as the HP xw8400 and
Dell Precision 390. The Sun Ultra 24 workstation, equipped with the fastest Intel Core 2 Duo Desktop Processor E6850, 8 GB of memory and NVIDIA
Quadro FX 1700 video card, completed the "Normal" version of the benchmark in 1235 seconds and the "64-bit" version in 2809
seconds, beating the previous top scores by 4% and 8% respectively.
The Mathematica benchmarks stress the full range of mathematical functions and include nonlinear polynomial expansions. For the latest version
6.0 of the Mathematica application, two independent test suites were developed, the ISV-provided Wolfram benchmark and freely available MMA6.0.nb
benchmark. While both of these benchmarks contain 15 test cases, they are different, thus producing two distinct sets of scores.
The Sun Ultra 24 workstation, equipped with fastest the Intel Core 2 Duo Desktop Processor E6850 and running 64-bit SuSe Linux Enterprise Desktop 10
operating system, established two new world records running the above mentioned scientific benchmarks and posted leading composite scores of 3.266
and 1.27505, respectively
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