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(Sat, 23 February 2008)
Speedy Workstation Scoops Two New World Record Results on MCAD Benchmark
The Sun Ultra 24 workstation equipped with the latest Intel® Core™2 Duo processor E8500, based on 45nm Hi-k technology, sets the bar for the rest of the industry with the highest posted scores on OCUS v.5 benchmark for PTC Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire, one of the most prominent MCAD applications used world-wide. The current version of this benchmark has two suites, "Normal", which is targeted toward older 32-bit environments, and, newer, "64-bit", which stresses the system memory beyond 4GB and requires a 64-bit Operating System. On both test suites, the Sun Ultra 24 workstation, running the 64-bit Edition of Windows XP Professional, superseded the competing workstations from HP, Fujitsu and Dell, such as the HP xw8400, Celsius M460 and Dell Precision 390. The Sun Ultra 24 workstation, boasting 8 GB of memory and the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 video card, completed the "Normal" version of the benchmark in 1144 seconds and the "64-bit" version in 2596 seconds, beating the top competing results by 12% and 15%, respectively.
Tops Score on SPECapc for Pro/ENGINEER™ Wildfire 2.0 Benchmark
The Sun Ultra 24 workstation equipped with the latest Intel® Core™2 Duo processor E8500, based on 45nm Hi-k technology, achieved unprecedented performance on SPECapc for Pro/ENGINEER#153; Wildfire 2.0, SPECapc's latest Pro/E benchmark. This version of the benchmark uses a complex model of a race car assembly to exercise all areas of system performance relevant to one of the most prominent CAD/CAM/CAE applications used worldwide. The benchmark runs eight tests to measure performance for graphics, CPU and I/O, and in addition to running on 32-bit systems, enables performance testing on 64-bit operating systems that can address larger amounts of physical memory.
On both test suites, the Sun Ultra 24 workstation, running the Windows XP Professional Operating System, overtakes the previous best result by the Fujitsu Siemens CELSIUS R550 workstation and beats the HP xw4600 system by 2% and 7%, respectively.
Two World Record Performance Results on Mathematica
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.
Undisputed Winner on Renowned MCAD Benchmark with Two New World Record Results
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.
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