UltraSPARC III architecture based, 64-bit Sun Blade 1000 workstation debuts at 900 MHzNew York 27 October 2000 The Sun Blade 1000 workstation, offered at a sub $10,000 price point, features the first implementation of the UltraSPARC III architecture and gives twice the performance, memory and disk capacity of existing UltraSPARC II systems.
The Sun Blade 1000 workstation is part of a broad compatible product line that combines
next-generation system architecture with greatly enhanced CPU performance, and
incorporates Sun Grid Engine software to tackle compute intensive solutions. The Sun Blade 1000 workstation is designed to offer industry-leading return on investment for
technical computing with an up to five times increase in compute power and up to ten times
increase in graphics performance over a 36 month period. Other cutting edge features of the
Sun Blade 1000 workstation include the blazing Sun Fire Plane interconnect at 4.8 Gb/s, and
mixed speed CPU module support -- from 750 MHz through to 900 MHz today, and through well
over 1 GHz in the future -- in the same chassis, for unmatched flexibility and investment
protection. Designed for use in a network and featuring Sun's robust and scalable Solaris Operating Environment, the first UltraSPARC III architecture-based desktop systems provide the
power for customer solutions to meet increasingly competitive demands in a variety of compute
intensive markets -- including software development, MCAD/MCAE
(mechanical computer-aided design/mechanical computer-aided engineering),
EDA (electronic design automation), financial services, oil and gas and digital content creation.
Sun also announced today that Grid Engine software is available free download.
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