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| Sun Microsystems announces Solaris 10 on x64 Sun Microsystems announced Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) support for PTC Pro/ENGINEER running on the AMD Opteron processor-based platform. Pro/ENGINEER is a 3D product design solution that helps companies develop detailed, intuitive and realistic digital product representations. The proven combination of the Solaris 10 OS, Pro/ENGINEER and Sun's AMD Opteron processor-based workstations meets the growing demand for low cost, high performance 32- and 64-bit processing. The solution also enables customers to model designs of large size, scale and complexity. With the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation, an AMD Opteron-based platform, customers who are hitting the limitations of 32-bit only platforms have, for the first time, a platform that meets their needs while helping lower total cost of ownership. The Sun Ultra 20 Workstation is the industry's fastest x64 (x86, 64-bit) workstation to date, making it radically more affordable for design engineers and customers, while delivering industry-leading price and performance. "Prior to the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation, we had completed extensive TCO comparisons for engineering workstations at Bombardier that show by a wide margin, the Solaris 10 OS is an optimal platform for Pro/ENGINEER, " said Robert R. Parotto, manager, CAE Systems and Technology, Bombardier Recreational Products, Inc. "The reliability, performance and ease-of-maintenance of the Solaris OS is unmatched. We are very much looking forward to the release of Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire on Solaris 10 for the AMD64 platform. The price performance of the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation will make what is a very good TCO, all that much better." "Sun's AMD Opteron processor-powered workstations have earned top honors for benchmark performance, " said Olaf Corten, proprietor ofhttp://www.proesite.comand developer of the OCUS Benchmark for Pro/ENGINEER, a popular benchmark for Pro/ENGINEER. "Since their introduction over a year ago, Sun's x64 workstations have dominated the top in performance among all commercially available workstations for Pro/ENGINEER." "As customer datasets continue to increase, there is a need to move to 64-bit processing, " said Steve Murphy, vice president, Manufacturing Industry Sales Sun Microsystems. "By working with PTC, we better position our customers in the auto manufacturing, aerospace and defense industries to reap the full benefits of moving to 64-bit multi-core workstations." "PTC is pleased to offer our customers another powerful choice for 64-bit computing, " said Michael Campbell, vice president, product management, PTC. "PTC and Sun Microsystems continue the long standing collaborative partnership of Solaris and Pro/ENGINEER to provide our customers with a powerful, lower cost solution to meet their needs." Solaris 10 support is scheduled to be generally available with Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0 in the first half of 2006. write your comments about the article :: © 2005 Networking News :: home page |