In its new Sun Firex64 (x86, 64-bit) servers and Sun
Ultra Workstation range, Sun Microsystems believes it has the
newest, highest-performing single-core AMD Opteron range of
servers.
Sun is confident that the faster processor speeds, combined with
what is says are inherent performance advantages of its x64 servers
and workstations, give customers increased processing power and a
performance edge over competitive systems.
"Sun is the first vendor to take full performance advantage of
all the new single-core AMD Opteron processors," says Lisa Sieker,
vice-president of marketing at Sun’s Network Systems Group.
“The availability of Sun's x64 servers and workstations powered
by the newest AMD Opteron x56 processors, including the only
products on the market with the AMD Opteron Model 156 processor,
emphasises the alignment of our product roadmaps, in addition to
our mutual commitment to provide the fastest and most
power-efficient x64 solutions in the industry.”
Sun says that in addition to more than 70 world record results
posted to date, the Sun Fire x64 systems have established 16 new
performance records. Sun Fire x64 servers are attributed with
holding eight world records across the product line, while running
an array of supported operating systems that include Solaris, SUSE
and Red Hat Linux and Windows.