Sun Ultra 24 Workstation

Performance

The industry's fastest workstation

The Intel Core 2 Quad processor is designed for astonishing performance. How fast? Up to 80 percent faster on highly-threaded applications [1].

Intel: A thrill a minute, and good for the long haul

With four execution cores, the Intel Core 2 Quad processor blows through processor-intensive tasks in demanding multitasking environments. From 3D visualizations and simulations EDA to heavy design MCAD and code development Software Development, you'll experience revolutionary performance and unbelievable system responsiveness. The Sun Ultra 24 workstation offers 8MB total cache on the Intel Core 2 microarchitecture. All of this gives you the ultimate in application performance for this class of workstations. And this is just the beginning.

Graphics accelerators that fly

With the Sun Ultra 24 workstation, you get to dial in exactly the graphics performance you want. Choose from six workstation-class graphics accelerator cards, ranging from highly economical to simply incredible. In fact, you can choose the extreme performance NVIDIA Quadro FX5600 graphics board, and get the industry's most advanced feature set. The Sun Ultra 24 workstation is the only single-socket workstation that supports it.

Better Graphics by Design

Looking for over-the-top graphics? This is the first Sun workstation to deliver the new PCI-Express Gen2 graphics bus. It's the brand new standard for maximum graphics performance delivering twice the bandwidth of first generation PCI-Express.

You won't believe how much better you'll be able to visualize large data sets. At the same time, you'll be able to see more data sets simultaneously, on up to six displays, the most of any Sun workstation. It's not just a great processor and outrageous graphics card. It's a truly balanced end-to-end system of the latest component technologies.

Value

An enterprise-class system at an entry-level price

Core 2 performance starting at $995 U.S.. Offering exceptional price/performance and investment protection through 64-bit and 32-bit application support, the Sun Ultra 24 workstation is among the best workstations available when it comes to total cost of ownership.

A clear path to 64-bit computing

By delivering lots of power and flexibility in one workstation, the Sun Ultra 24 workstation saves you money. Using a single platform, you can run demanding applications for development, engineering, simulation, and analysis alongside your standard office productivity applications. Enabling you to use the same architecture to run 64-bit and 32-bit operating systems and applications with no compromises in performance, the Sun Ultra 24 workstation helps protect your existing 32-bit technology investments while providing a smooth migration path to next-generation 64-bit computing when you're ready.

World-class services

Sun offers a wide range of world-class Sun Services, from extended warranties to next-day site support, that can help you reduce cost and complexity, and accelerate network deployment - all from a single source.

Staying power

Right out of the box, the Sun Ultra 24 workstation gives you the top performance of its class. You're getting PCI-Express Gen2 graphics right at the beginning of its cycle. And this workstation is designed to stay ahead with an easy, safe upgrade path to Intel's next processor breakthroughs.

Preloaded OS and development tools

Sun is the only tier-one workstation vendor to offer a workstation preloaded with the Solaris 10 Operating System and valuable, fully-licensed development tools worth thousands of dollars at no extra charge. Sun Studio 12 software is a comprehensive, integrated suite of developer tools for C, C++, and Fortran application development, Sun Java Studio Creator 2 software is a visual development environment that lets you rapidly create Java technology-based applications, Sun Java Studio Enterprise, a software package that allows you to efficiently develop, debug, test, and deploy web applications and services, and NetBeans, a full-featured, integrated Java software development environment.

The Sun Ultra 24 workstation also comes with a rich suite of pre-installed Sun software development tools, including Sun Studio 12, Sun Java Studio Creator 2, Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8 and NetBeans 5.5 IDE.

Flexibility

More OS Choices Than Any Other

The Sun Ultra 24 workstation is certified to run the Solaris OS, Windows Vista, Windows XP, and SuSE and Red Hat Linux. With the Sun Ultra 24 workstation, you have more OS options at your fingertips, including the option to dual-boot [2] multiple operating systems.

Target the workstation for your specific need

If you're an IT specifier, you can use the Sun Ultra 24 workstation as a base platform to cover a wide range of users and environments, fine-tuning the capabilities and options of each unit for each user, team, or department. If you're a hands-on user, you can max out your personal workstation to the extreme knowing that even the base model is the industry's fastest.

Innovation

Intel Core 2 Processor

Dual or Quad core. Based on revolutionary Intel Core microarchitecture, Intel Core 2 Duo processors provide powerful energy-efficient performance so you can do more at once without slowing down. Intel Core 2 Quad processor blows through processor-intensive tasks in demanding multitasking environments and makes the most of highly threaded applications.

Chipset

Intel x38-Express Chipset - the high performance heart of the system significantly increases overall system performance through the optimization of available bandwidth with the new 1333 MHz system bus and reduction of memory access latency.

Best Graphics Interface/Best Graphics cards

PCI Express 2.0 delivers up to 16GB/s bandwidth per slot, double that of PCIe 1.0. It provides leading-edge graphics performance with dual X16 graphic card configurations. The best of NVIDIA's Quadro FX graphics cards including support for the Quadro FX 5600.