Mentor Graphics, Oregon State University and the San Diego Supercomputer Center are among customers currently testing the Sun Fire X2250 server in an HPC environment. To read more news and product reviews about Sun Fire servers powered by Intel Xeon processors, visit: http://www.sun.com/x64/intel/perspectives.jsp
Sun Services and Support Optimize Server Workloads
Sun offers an array of services to optimize Sun Fire X2250 and Sun Fire X4250 server performance and computing workloads, including heterogeneous support, HPC services and training. For more information, please visit: http://www.sun.com/services
Availability and Pricing
The Sun Fire X2250 and X4250 servers powered by Intel Xeon 5200 and 5400 series processors are shipping now, with entry-level pricing starting at $1,495 and $3,195, respectively. For more information on the Sun Fire X2250 and X4250 servers, please visit: http://www.sun.com/x2250 and http://www.sun.com/x4250
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SPEC, SPECint, SPECfp, SPEComp are registered trademarks of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results from www.spec.org as of 08/15/08 and this announcement.
(1) Sun Fire X2250 (2xIntel Xeon X5272, 4 cores, 2 cores/chip, OpenSolaris 2008.05): World Record x86 result of SPECfp2006 26. Sun Fire X2250 (2xIntel Xeon X5272, 4 cores, 2 cores/chip, SLES 10): World Record result of SPECint2006 28.5. Sun Fire X2250 (2xIntel Xeon X5472, 8 cores, 4 cores/chip, SLES 10) World Record for all 2-socket x86 systems of SPECint_rate2006 148.
(2) Sun Fire X2250 (2xIntel Xeon X5272, 4 cores, 2 cores/chip, OpenSolaris 2008.05): 4 thread World Record of SPECompM2001 13,934
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