Pricing and Availability

The entry-level price for the dual-core capable Sun Ultra 20 Workstation starts at $895(USD), and includes one AMD Opteron Processor Model 144, 512 MB of memory, one 80 GB Serial ATA Hard Disk Drive, ATI Entry 2D Graphics, one DVD-ROM disk drive, and is pre-loaded with leading developer tools. The Sun Ultra 40 Workstation entry-level configuration comes equipped with the Solaris 10 OS, one AMD Opteron processor Model 246, 1 GB of memory, one 80 GB Serial ATA Hard Disk Drive, one NVIDIA Quadro Graphics Accelerator, one DVD-RW disk drive, a license for Sun N1 Grid Engine software, and is pre-loaded with developer tools, priced at $2,295(USD). The Sun Ultra 45 Workstation entry-level configuration comes equipped with the Solaris 10 OS, one UltraSPARC IIIi processor, 1 GB of memory, one 80 GB Serial ATA Hard Disk Drive, one Sun XVR Graphics Accelerator and one DVD-RW disk drive, priced at $3,695(USD). For additional information on the Sun Ultra Workstations, please visit: www.sun.com/workstations.

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SPEC, SPECfp, SPECint are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. SPECapc is the service mark of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Competitive benchmark results reflect data published as of 01/22/06. For the latest benchmark results, visit http://www.spec.org. Sun's results have been submitted to SPEC.

(1) Pro/E Wildfire is a registered trademark of Parametric Technology Corporation. Olaf Corten is the proprietor and developer of the OCUS Benchmark. Results are published at http://www.proesite.com, as of 01/22/06

(2) The Sun Ultra 40 workstation (2x AMD Opteron Model 280, 4 cores, 2 chips, 2 cores/chip, 16 GB DDR1, Solaris 10): SPECfp_rate2000 - 79.1; SPECint_rate2000 - 71.4

(3) Sun Ultra 20 (1xOpteron 154/FX 3450/Windows XP) - SPEC APC SolidWorks 2005 Overall Composite - 4.07; Cost per Composite US$1033. HP xw9300 (2xOpteron 254/FX 1400/Windows XP) - SPEC APC SolidWorks 2005 Overall Composite - 2.3; Cost per Composite US$2071

(4) Results are published at http://www.ensight.com/products/performance.html , as of 1/22/06. Sun Ultra 20 (1xOpteron 154/FX 3450/64-bit SLES 9) - Composite Score - 8.75; Cost per Composite US $382; HP xw9300 (2xOpteron 254/FX 3450/64-bit Linux 2.6) - Composite Score - 8.67; Cost per Composite US $943.

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