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Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Ultra 20’s big bro the ultra 40

UPDATE: The Ultra 40 has been released, well at least you can buy one. see Ultra 40 for more details.

Well someone has found a leak, about the Ultra 20’s big brother, from the rumor mill it is dual core, dual CPU’s. Drool!!

Here are the details from the manual that can be found on Sun’s own web site

2x AMD Opteron socket 940 cpu’s single or dual core 2.0 GHz and faster
8x PC 3200 DIMM slots, 2GB per slot up to 32GB ECC memory
2 on-board 10/100/1000 base-t gigabit Ethernet
2x pci-e 16x slots
2x pci-e 4x slots
2x pci 33mhz 32 bit slots
8x usb 2.0 connectors
2x firewire connectors

Sun keeps making cool products how can they fail!!!

GO SUN!!!

Update: there is an Ultra 45, being released soon as evidenced by this link. I'm still investigating more details as they come availible.

Update #2: a osnews reader has found sudgested pricing for the Ultra 40.

http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/government/florida/Gov/82.h...

and got this:
A71-NPB2-AD-4GB-DR $5,395 E Ultra 40 - 254, 4GB, FX1400 New

A71-NWB1-AJ-1GB-DR $2,295 E Ultra 40 - 246, 1GB, NVS285 New

A71-PFB2-AK-8GB-DS $7,795 E Ultra 40 - 280, 8GB, FX3450 New


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3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

if an ultra40 can turn 8x 2GB into 32GB I'll buy one :-)

11:59 AM  
Anonymous JPDrawneek said...

Ok time to save you some work:

Found this

http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/government/configure/

Sun Ultra 45 Workstation- RoHS-6 model 1.6GHz-,1 * 1.6GHz UltraSPARC IIIi Processor with 1MB on-die L2 Cache, Sun XVR-100 Graphics Accelerator, 1GB DDR1 Memory (2 * 512MB DIMMS), 1 * 250GB 7200rpm SATA Hard Disk, 1* DVD-Dual, 2 * 10/100/1000 BaseT Ethernet ports, 2 * Serial ports, 6 * USB2.0 ports, 2 * full-length PCI-X slots, 3 * PCI-Express slots, Solaris 10 pre-installed (StandarConfiguration) A70-XHB1-9AF-1G-DT

Sun Ultra 45 Workstation- RoHS-6 model 1.6GHz, 1 * 1.6GHz UltraSPARC IIIi Processor with 1MB on-die L2 Cache,Sun XVR-2500 Graphics Accelerator,1GB DDR1 Memory (2 * 512MB DIMMS),1 * 250GB 7200rpm SATA Hard Disk, 1 * DVD-Dual, 2 * 10/100/1000 BaseT Ethernet ports, 2 * Serial ports, 6 * USB2.0 ports, 2 * full-length PCI-X slots, 3 * PCI-Express slots, Solaris 10 pre-installed (Standard Configuration) A70-XHB1-9AG-1G-DT

Sun Ultra 45 Workstation- RoHS-6 model 1.6GHz, 2 * 1.6GHz UltraSPARC IIIi Processor with 1MB on-die L2 Cache,2*Sun XVR-100 Graphics Accelerator, 2GB DDR1 Memory (2 * 1GB DIMMS), 1 * 250GB 7200rpm SATA Hard Disk, 1 * DVD-Dual, 2 * 10/100/1000 BaseT Ethernet ports, 2 * Serial ports, 6 * USB2.0 ports, 2 * full-length PCI-X slots, 3 * PCI-Express slots, Solaris 10 pre-installed (Standard Configuration) A70-XHB2-9AF-2G-DT

So time to cry - no ultrasparc3i+ :'(
- no fast ram :'(

3:58 PM  
Anonymous Matt said...

Has anybody loaded stock Fedora Core 4 on an Ultra 40 without any problems/driver disks, etc. needed?

11:13 AM  

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