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Sun's New Workstations and Graphics Cards

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the chasing-after-sgi dept.

An anonymous reader "Sun Microsystems has released the Sun Blade 2000 workstation, along with a new graphics accelerator, the XVR-1000. This could very well give SGI's lineup a run for its money in the CAD and Visualization fields, although its fillrate and 38-bit colour may make it less desirable for animation. Make sure to check out Ace's article. " (page down a couple times to read it)

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  1. Xeon is much faster by shaka999 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I recently did a comparison on some EDA tools (spice and the like). A Blade 1000 was 36% slower than a 1.7Gz Intel Xeon. The people saying "duh, look at the speed Ghz" aren't looking at the right data.

    The Xeon machine was well under 1/10th the cost of the Blade 1000.

    --
    One should not theorize before one has data. -Sherlock Holmes-
  2. Full Coverage! by BoarderPhreak · · Score: 0, Redundant

    There's full coverage here on Everything Unix, with pictures and discussion...