Wednesday, January 18, 2006

New Workstations - Ultra 40 & Ultra 45

Looks like Sun is going to release new workstations - Sun Ultra 40 and Sun ultra 45. Manual for Ultra 40 can be found here. According to the document Ultra 40 will be:

  • 2x Opteron (single-core or dual-core)
  • 8x PC3200 DIMMs
  • DVD-RW
  • 4x SATA Drives
  • 2x on-board GbE
  • 2x PCI-E x16, 2x PCI-E x4, 2x PCI 33MHz/33bit
  • 8x USB 2.0 (2x in-front)
  • 2x IEEE 1394a (FireWire)
  • Solaris 10 Pre-Installed (Linux/Windows supported)
Ultra 45 seems to be SPARC workstation. More info from SystemNews.

According to this link Ultra 40 and Ultra 45 will cost 1,395$ for base configuration. Other configurations:
  • Ultra 40 - 246, 1GB, NVS285 - 2,295$
  • Ultra 40 - 254, 4GB, FX1400 - 5,395$
  • Ultra 40 - 280, 8GB, FX3450 - 7,795$
  • Ultra45,1x1.6GHz,XVR100,1GB - 3,436$
  • Ultra45,1x1.6GHz,XVR2500,1GB - 4,273$
  • Ultra45,2x1.6GHz,2*XVR100,2GB - 6,319$
ps. I found this thanks to James.

update: official announcement

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