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1. Display Resolution Vertical Refresh Rate Sync Standard Aspect Ratio Format 1920 x 1080 72 Hz Sun 16 9 1600 x 1280 76 Hz Sun 5 4 1600 x 1200 75 Hz VESA 4 3 1600 x 1000 66 76 Hz Sun 16 10 1440 x 900 76 Hz Sun 16 10 1280 x 800 112 Hz Sun Stereo 16 10 1280 x 800 76 Hz Sun 16 10 1280 x 1024 60 75 85 Hz VESA 5 4 1280 x 1024 67 76 Hz Sun 5 4 1152 x 900 120 Hz Sun Stereo 5 4 1152 x 900 66 76 Hz Sun 5 4 1024 x 800 84 Hz Sun 5 4 1024 x 768 75 Hz VESA 4 3 1024 x 768 60 70 77 Hz Sun 4 3 960 x 680 108 112 Hz Sun Stereo Sun Stereo 768 x 575 50i Hz PAL PAL 640 x 480 60 Hz VESA 4 3 640 x 480 60i Hz NTSC NTSC Sun XVR 500 Graphics Accelerator The Sun XVR 500 graphics accelerator doubles the geometry performance and improves the texture performance by up to 50 percent over the Sun Expert3D Lite graphics which it replaces The Sun XVR 500 graphics accelerator provides a very affordable graphics solution for demanding 3D graphics applications that require fast geometry performance and reasonable texture mapping performance Key markets for the Sun XVR 500 graphics accelerator are MCAD MCAE medical imaging high end EDA GIS and energy markets This product for Sun workstations and workgroup servers provides an integrated solution for compute intensive modeling applications The Sun XVR 500 graphics accelerator is based on the 3Dlabs Wildcat architecture It is positioned as part of a to
2. Under Sun UAP trade in allowance codes have been created and the percentage allowance is built into this part number see below Allowance codes can be found at the following locations e Sun Price Book Configuration Guide Desktop System Migration and Allowance Matrix on SunWIN 94726 nternal URL http ibb eng upgrades External URL http www sun com ibb upgrades Partner CDPs URL http partner sun com ibb upgrades Note Allowance codes can be applied to standard marketing part numbers Allowances CANNOT be applied to X options or CTO options Allowance Code Numbering Scheme Below is an example allowance code along with a description of the components Allowance code ALW 02 T A A29 e ALW Every upgrade code starts with these letters identifying it as an upgrade e 02 Percentage allowance This is the allowance that is subtracted from the list price of the product 02 equals 2 off of list 08 equals 8 off of list and so on Note that any other discounts such as volume discounts should also be taken off the list price and not the net of the above T Desktop upgrades S for server upgrades and D for storage upgrades amp Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 72 A Residue group acceptable trade ins by Sun for reporting purposes A29 Product family identifies the type of product the customer is upgrading to How to Apply Allowance Code Retrieve a copy of the de
3. 32 MB frame buffer memory 16 MB on board texture mapping memory and acceleration Support for resolutions up to 2 megapixels 1920 x 1080 double buffered Z buffered 32 bit Z buffering at all supported resolutions e Synchronization of two to four displays at 1280 x 800 112 Hz stereo Multidisplay support up to four in the Sun Blade 1000 and 2000 workstations and the Sun Fire V880 server Performance up to 8M triangles per second 10 pixel smooth lit and a trilinear texture fill rates of 88 Mpixels second with Z buffering or 166 Mpixels second without Z buffering Hardware acceleration for the features listed above in OpenGL applications using Sun OpenGL for Solaris API versions 1 2 1 and later Display Resolutions The Sun XVR 500 graphics accelerator s video timings monitor screen resolutions 32 MB frame buffer and HD15 output is listed below Display Resolution Vertical Refresh Rate Sync Standard Aspect Ratio 1920 x 1080 72 Hz Sun 16 9 1600 x 1280 76 Hz Sun 5 4 1600 x 1200 75 Hz VESA 4 3 1600 x 1000 66 76 Hz Sun 16 10 1440 x 900 76 Hz Sun 16 10 1280 x 800 112 Hz Sun Stereo 16 10 Just the Facts August 2002 31 Display Resolution Vertical Refresh Rate Sync Standard Aspect Ratio 1280 x 800 76 Hz Sun 16 10 1280 x 1024 60 75 85 Hz VESA 5 4 1280 x 1024 67 76 Hz Sun 5 4 1152 x 900 120 Hz Sun Stereo 5 4 1152 x 900 66
4. design and analysis for engineers and so on A choice of APIs Interoperability with existing applications and users Sun Expert3D Graphics Overview The Sun Blade 2000 workstation configurations with Sun Expert3D graphics offer a high performance graphics adapter with on board texture mapping memory This PCI graphics adapter provides an outstanding and affordable high performance graphics solution for demanding 2D and 3D graphics applications that specifically require hardware based texture mapping acceleration Just the Facts amp Sun microsystems August 2002 25 Frame Buffer Memory Monitor Figure 4 Sun Expert3D graphics schematic For demanding applications in geothermal high end MCAD digital content creation visualization and simulation where hardware based texture mapping is essential the Sun Blade 2000 workstations support the Sun Expert3D graphics accelerator Sun Expert3D graphics presents a high performance affordable solution with the following features 128 MB total on board memory with 64 MB for accelerated texture mapping performance for acceleration of complex 2D and 3D textures True color 3D double and Z buffering at very high resolutions for large screen HDTV monitor support as well as stereo mode graphics for enhanced realism at high resolutions On board geometry accelerator delivers up to six million triangles per second with up to 3 2 Gigaflops of floating point performance
5. 76 120 Hz Sun 5 4 1024 x 800 84 Hz Sun 5 4 1024 x 768 75 Hz VESA 4 3 1024 x 768 60 70 77 Hz Sun 4 3 960 x 680 108 112 Hz Sun Stereo Sun Stereo 768 x 575 50i Hz PAL PAL 640 x 480 60 Hz VESA 4 3 640 x 480 60i Hz NTSC interlaced NTSC Sun XVR 1000 Graphics Accelerator Sun XVR 1000 graphics is Sun s third generation fast frame buffer graphics accelerator designed for use in UltraSPARC processor based systems Sun XVR 1000 graphics provides Sun s most complete acceleration of the OpenGL API to date including 2D and 3D texture mapping image processing OpenGL 1 2 and a significant number of extensions beyond the OpenGL 1 2 API The Sun XVR 1000 graphics accelerator introduces an entirely new graphics accelerator architecture with the MAJC graphics processor at its core It is part of Sun s commitment to steadily increase graphics performance and capabilities over time in new products Sun XVR 1000 graphics is offered as part of random configurations or could be installed as an option for the Sun Blade 2000 workstations This new graphics accelerator allows Sun to better support graphics demanding technical markets especially those who require a high performance visualization engine including the GEO GIS biomedical government defense and product design styling fields This graphics accelerator provides Sun s UPA based workstations with a competitive advantage due to its superior 3D performance higher levels of quality and n
6. Just the Facts August 2002 5 workstations also offer exceptional power management features These enable various subsystems to independently enter and exit a low power state depending on activity levels while maintaining an active network connection Note that the Sun Blade 2000 workstations support only the Solaris 8 Operating Environment 2 02 version or later There is no support for earlier versions of the Solaris Operating Environment however these workstations maintain full binary compatibility with applications compiled on previous versions of the operating environment Sun Blade 2000 systems require the 2 02 version of the Solaris Operating Environment Solaris 8 Update 7 Introducing the Sun Blade 2000 20 Year Celebration Edition Workstations The Sun Blade 2000 system is the latest addition to the Sun Blade family of workstations and is a very close relative to the recently EOLed Sun Blade 1000 system It is configured with up to two 900 MHz or 1 05 GHz UltraSPARC HI Cu processors has a larger disk capacity up to two 73 GB disks and comes with a minimum of 1 GB RAM The Sun Blade 2000 workstation is the first 1 GHz 64 bit UNIX workstation In addition Sun is celebrating 20 years of innovation with a limited edition 20 Year Celebration Edition Sun Blade 2000 workstation At the time of the announcement this is perhaps the highest performing workstation on the market This personal visualization system comes fully configu
7. On board rasterization engine performs triangle setup texture processing and pixel operations at up to 143 Mpixels per second fill rate Compatibility with Sun s graphics APIs including the Sun OpenGL for Solaris API version 1 1 2 or later and Java 3D API The Sun Expert3D accelerator can be installed in one of the Sun Blade 2000 workstations PCI slots and up to two Sun Expert3D accelerators can be installed per system Other features of the Sun Expert3D frame buffer include double buffering Z buffering 3D support at super high resolutions of 1920 x 1200 stereo video mode support at 1280 x 1024 and hardware support for 3D SuperScene antialiasing The Sun Expert3D frame buffer is ideal for Sun customers and resellers in the technical marketplace The Sun Blade 2000 workstation configurations with Sun Expert3D graphics are especially appropriate for customers working with CAD wire frame models or highly textured seismic data such as in the oil and gas industry 4 Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 26 Sun Expert3D Graphics Features and Benefits Features Benefits On board 64 MB texture mapping Accelerates applications requiring texture maps memory On board 64 MB frame buffer memory Provides support for 24 bit truecolor 2D and 3D up to 1920 x 1200 supporting Sun s 24 inch display Supports double buffering and Allows customers to use large screen monitors including Z buffering at up to 1920 x 1200 Sun s 2
8. Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 13 Technical Fact Summary e Sun Blade 2000 workstations use one or two 900 MHz or 1 05 GHz UltraSPARC III Cu processors High performance Sun Fireplane interconnect with 4 8 GB second throughput provides fast access to memory and graphics Internal FC AL interface for disk access supports up to two internal FC AL disks in these system up to 144 GB capacity The Sun Blade 2000 workstation comes with up to two 73 GB FC AL disks Up to 8 GB of memory for configurations using 8 x 1 GB DIMMs High performance interconnect at up to 150 MHz 1 2 GB second peak throughput High performance 64 bit PCI I O bus offering dual independent PCI buses plus 66 MHz PCI support High end graphics functionality and performance at mid level prices with Sun XVR 500 and Sun XVR 1000 graphics Fast Ethernet 100 BASE T autosensing and autoswitching to IOBASE T for backward compatibility in networking advanced networking options include Gigabit Ethernet ATM token ring and FDDI Processors in the Sun Blade 2000 Workstations Sun Blade 2000 workstations are powered by up to two UltraSPARC III Cu microprocessors with 8 MB of external cache Binary compatible with all Sun SPARC processor based systems the UltraSPARC III Cu processors provide excellent integer and floating point performance to address the needs of the most computationally demanding applications UltraSPARC Ill Cu Processor F
9. and PGX32 frame buffers Operating environments supported Solaris 2 6 7 8 or later Note Multi display Xinerama support requires Solaris 7 Operating Environment 11 99 or later or later Recommended patches Using PGX graphics on an Ultra 5 or 10 workstation Solaris 2 6 patch 105362 19 or later Using Sun Elite3D graphics Solaris 2 6 patch 105362 19 or later Solaris 7 patches 106148 03 and 106144 05 or later Window system supported CDE or OpenWindows Disk space For end user runtimes Just the Facts 32 MB for 32 bit 55 MB for 64 bit amp Sun microsystems August 2002 56 For ISV developers total to build 54 MB for 32 bit 77 MB for 64 bit examples Memory 64 MB minimum with 128 MB or more recommended Ordering Information Note A Sun Blade 2000 standard and random configurations using 900 MHzUItraSPASRC II Cu CPUs fully comply with Energy Star regulations Modifying any of these configuration by adding any available Sun or third party option may render the configuration non compliant Configurations using 1 05 Ghz UltraSPARC CPUs do not meet Energy Star regulations Sun Blade 2000 Workstation Part Numbers Part Number Description A29 PS1 9C 1GMAJ Standard Configuration Sun Blade 2000 workstation with one 900 MHz UItraSPARC III Cu processor with 8 MB cache 1 GB memory differentiated DIMMS one 73 GB 10000 rpm FC AL
10. two FC AL disk bays bay for DVD drive removable media bay 10 100 Mbit Ethernet Solaris Operating Environment license no CPU memory or disk included rackmountable on tray Step 2 Select a CPU module Required Select one or two of the following with any combination of CPU speeds A minimum of one is required Note that the 900 MHz UltraSPARC Cu CPU module is a direct replace for the 750 MHz module The 900 MHz UltraSPARC Cu module when used to upgrade from the 750 MHz module used in eoled Sun Blade 1000 systems requires an OS patch and OBP update Part Number CPU Memory Module Max per System Sun Blade 2000 Workstations 7009A 900 MHz UltraSPARC III Cu CPU 8 MB Ecache Two 7017A 1 05 GHz UItraSPARC III Cu CPU 8 MB Ecache Two Step 3 Specify memory kit Required Select one or two memory kits any combination Maximum installed memory is 8 GB Full physical memory can be accessed with only one CPU two CPUs are not required The Sun Blade 2000 has eight DIMM slots RAM must be installed in banks of four Memory can be mixed and matched but must be one size per bank of four Part Numbers Memory Size idis ra p 7061A 1024 MB 4 x 256 MB 2 7062A 2048 MB 4 x 512 MB 2 7052A 4096 MB 4x 1024 MB 2 amp Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 60 The table below lists memory sizes and required memory kits Si
11. Features Solaris Web Start Program enhancements e Support for the new Chinese GB18030 locale encoding Just the Facts Benefits Users can now perform the following functions during installation or upgrade Automatically reboot the system after installation Automatically eject the CD or DVD after installation Select to preserve file systems Customize fdisk partitions Intel platform only Automated installations can now use sysidcfg file Customers can input print and display the latest 32 bit Chinese characters Backward compatibility to previous Chinese codesets GBK and GB2312 Conversion to other codesets such as Unicode amp Sun microsystems August 2002 51 Features Enhancements to the optional alternative multithreading libraries Two new options for Sun servers to allow it to run as a display only device Locator command Netra X1 platform support CPR for Sun Blade 100 and 2000 workstations LTO Ultrium tape driver support 14 new and 7 updated Open Source packages Solaris media kit contents extended to include the iPlanet Integration Server EAI Edition Benefits The Solaris 8 2 02 Operating Environment release includes an improved alternative multithreaded library that provides better performance Customers can run the Solaris Operating Environment window manager in display only mode without the need for a mouse or a keyboard Customers can q
12. Graplics Accelerator 2 225 Sox te Ra Dei Dr ee ib e e e te ainda teeta Sun XVR 1000 Graphics Accelerator 2 Graphics Comparison Summary oed e IRI QU RUP IR reo ann Qe e Icd e tette eter Graphics Berichimarks s s EE System Configuration ccccsssscsscssssscsccsssscesssssescesssssessnsesessesesessesesssssesceseesssssesesnesessescesesesessesesessesssnsnssesssnssseseess OO Requirements and Specifications 40 EM VILOMIMEM E 40 ege eet Eelst EE ere EE 41 Power ds Al Reliability Availability and Serviceability RAS cl Beliabilityzu5 amp ekz Sawn Dee beagle hber eerte deiere uei eee SER 43 Avallability sii Em 43 SELVICEADINEY Aea E AAEE EEEE need thts tide cedures Secu E EE EEEE 45 NARI UU EET LCS VUE FO Software RTE 46 System Administration ManRRARAB AMAR AR Rods GHAR Aa ANAN URAL RS ANaR AUS AMAR GEES MAAR cona The Solaris 8 Operating Environment Letseeudie ente aea rest er SEM 48 Graphics Software Interfaces cora eoo de e eei a E e e e rec e eee 52 The Solaris Operating Environment Licensing and Usage 54 Sun OpenGL for Solaris 1 2 3 e 54 amp Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 3 Ordering Information ccccccscsssscessssseccessessecessessecscessessesesnessesecsssecsesessessssessssessesecsesessessssessssessssecsesscsessssesssseesee T Sun Blade 2000 Workstation Part Number 57 Ordering Guidelines and Notes tette t
13. SCSI 1 X6540A Dual channel single ended UltraSCSI controller 2 X6541A Dual channel differential UltraSCSI controller 2 X6799A PCI single Fibre Channel network adapter 1 X6727A PCI dual FC network adapter 1 X1089A Real time video audio capture and compression 3 X2132A SunPCi IIpro 733 MHz coprocessor card 128 MB memory 4 X7042A 128 MB DIMM memory expansion for SunPCi IIpro PCI 2 option card X7044A 256 MB DIMM memory expansion for SunPCi IIpro PCI 2 option card X7045A 512 MB DIMM memory expansion for SunPCi Ipro PCI 2 option card X1152A SunFDDI single attach PCI bus interface adapter 2 0 4 X1153A SunFDDI dual attach PCI bus interface adapter 2 0 4 X1131A 64 2 SunPCi I coprocessor card with 300 MHz processor and 1 64 MB memory X2131A SunPCi II coprocessor card with 600 MHz processor and 1 64 MB memory 3 3 to 5 volts X2154A Token ring interface for Solaris 8 Operating Environment 4 X1089A SunVideo Plus 3 1 video audio capture 1 X499A EU PCI multimedia Kit SunVideo Plus 1 3 a PAL SunCamera II Sun 1 Microphone II and documentation Continental Europe supports SunForum 3 0 X499A UK PCI multimedia Kit SunVideo Plus 1 3 a PAL SunCamera II Sun 1 Microphone II and documentation U K supports SunForum 3 0 X499A PCI Multimedia Kit SunVideo Plus 1 3 a NTSC SunCamera II Sun 3 Microphone II and documentation U S supports SunForum 3 0 Y Just the Facts August 2002 69 Maximum Part
14. Solaris 8 Operating Environment Power management software on Sun Blade 2000 workstations allows the system to enter a low power mode after a programmed period of time Rather than completely pausing the system checkpoint and resume power management software detects idle subsystems and brings them to a low power but operational state For instance selected Sun Blade 2000 workstations remain network aware even when running in low power mode To support this power management model the various subsystems within Sun Blade 2000 workstations are designed to enter a low power state independently for example Processors and other internal ASICs including those which operate the Sun Fireplane system interconnect reduce their power consumption by running at a lower internal clock frequency The 33 MHz PCI bus frequency is reduced to 1 MHz When activity is pending the bus clock is returned to full frequency The USB IEEE 1394 and Ethernet subsystems are set in their lowest power consuming modes The audio module is disabled The graphics subsystem is configured for lowest DC power consumption The checkpoint and resume approach to power management is still available and can be configured by power management software The Solaris Operating Environment allows users to quickly resume work in progress before the shutdown Note Assemble To Order ATO configurations are compliant with Energy Star specifications only when ordered with 9
15. Specifications Feature Specification Temperature Operating Nonoperating 5 to 35 C with removable media 5 to 40 C without removable media 40 C to 60 C Humidity Operating Nonoperating 20 to 80 RH max wet bulb of 27 C with internal tape media installed 5 to 93 RH noncondensing at 40 C Altitude Operating Nonoperating 3 000 meters 70KPa 12 000 meters 19 3K Pa Shock Operating Nonoperating 5G for 11 msec half sine wave form 30G for 11 msec Vibration Operating Nonoperating 0 2 G peak three mutually perpendicular axes 5 to 500 Hz 1 0 G peak all axes 5 to 500 Hz Acoustic Operating 5 64 bels Idle 4 77 bels Drop and Topple 50 mm drop height Y S e SUN microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 40 Regulations Regulation Details Safety UL 1950 CSA 950 TUV EN60950 with Nordic deviations CB Scheme RFI EMI FCC Class B CRF 47 Part 15 6dB margin below the limit ICES 003 Class B for Canada EN55022 Class B for the European Union EN61000 3 2 for the European Union as of 01JUN98 or 01JANOI VCCI Class B for Japan GOST R Class B for Russia EZU Class B for Czech Republic EZU Class B for Slovakia RRL Class B for Korea BCIQ Class B for Taiwan AS NZS 3548 Class B for Australia amp New Zealand Immunity EN 50082 1 SUN 990 1151 01 Rev A X ray DHHS 21 Subchapter J PTB German X
16. X3534A X314L French PAL Swiss German X3535A X314L German PAL Swedish X3536A X312L Swedish PAL UK X3537A X317L English PAL US UNIX X3538A X311L English NTSC Japanese UNIX X3539A X311L Japanese NTSC Japanese UNIX Logoless X3539A OF X311L Japanese NTSC Taiwanese X3554A X311L English NTSC Korean X3555A X311L English NTSC Japanese X3556A X311L Japanese NTSC Japanese Logoless X3556A O X311L Japanese NTSC UK UNIX X3558A X317K English PAL European UNIX X3559A X312L English PAL Norwegian X3560A X312L English PAL Portuguese X3561A X312L English PAL Spanish X3562A X312L Spanish PAL Danish X3563A X383L Danish PAL Italian X3564A X384L Italian PAL Dutch X3565A X312L English PAL Australian X3566A X386L English PAL Finnish X3567A X312L English PAL European Universal X3568A X312L English PAL Chinese X3582A X386L English Euro Cordless X3583A X312L English PAL Notes Power cord shipped separately Just the Facts amp Sun microsystems August 2002 63 Step 6 Select disk drives and Solaris Operating Environment pre installation Required Select the number of disk drives to install Also specify whether to pre install the Solaris Operating Environment on the workstation The requirement is a maximum of two disk drives of which at least one has the Solaris Operating Environment pre installed 6766A Part Number Description 6766A 73 GB FC AL 10000 rpm drive option Solaris Operating Environment preinstalled 6742A 73 G
17. instruction set that is primarily aimed at image and video processing Some of the instructions allow the CPU to directly access and operate on image data with a high degree of parallelism Other instructions provide facilities for formatting and moving data at very high rates of speed both within the CPU and between the CPU and the other system components amp Sun microsystems August 2002 80 Materials Abstract All materials are available on SunWIN except where noted otherwise Token or Collateral Description Purpose Distribution COMAC Order PowerPack Sun Blade 2000 Workstation Reference Guide this Training SunWIN 124808 Just the Facts Sales Tool Reseller Web Sun Blade Workstation Customer Presentation with Slide Sales Tool SunWIN 124810 Presentation Reseller Web Product Literature Sun Blade 1000 and 2000 Technical White Paper Sales Tool SunWIN 124809 Workstation Architecture White Reseller Web Paper Literature Sun Blade 1000 Sales Tool SunWIN 121205 Workstation Data Sheet Reseller Web DE1211 1 Literature Sun Blade 2000 Sales Tool SunWIN 336012 Workstation Data Sheet Reseller Web DE1590 0 Graphics Solution Guide Graphics Overview Sales Tool SunWIN 75271 Sun Blade 1000 Benchmark Benchmark Index Sales Tool SunWIN 125774 Index References Sun Creator3D Graphics Reference Guide Training SunWIN 75246 Just the Facts Sales Tool Reseller Web Su
18. internal disk Sun PGX64 graphics 13W3 adapater cable included 10 100 Mbit Ethernet IEEE 1394 USB Solaris 8 2 02 Operating Environment preinstalled A29 PS1 9Y 1GMAJ Random Non Standard Configuration Sun Blade 2000 workstation with one 900 MHz UItraSPARC III Cu processor with 8 MB cache 1 GB memory differentiated DIMMS one 73 GB 10000 rpm FC AL internal disk XVR 500 Graphics Accelerator 10 100 Mbit Ethernet IEEE 1394 USB Solaris 8 2 02 Operating Environment preinstalled A29 PS1 97 2GA JN Random Non Standard Configuration Sun Blade 2000 workstation with one 900 MHz UItraSPARC III Cu processors with 8 MB cache 2 GB memory one 73 GB 10000 rpm FC AL internal disk Sun XVR 1000 graphics 10 100 Mbit Ethernet IEEE 1394 USB Solaris 8 2 02 Operating Environment preinstalled A29 PS2 9C 2GMAJ Standard Configuration Sun Blade 2000 workstation with two 900 MHz UItraSPARC III Cu processors with 8 MB cache each 2 GB memory differentiated DIMMS one 73 GB 10000 rpm FC AL internal disk Sun PGX64 graphics 13W3 adapater cable included 10 100 Mbit Ethernet IEEE 1394 USB Solaris 8 2 02 Operating Environment preinstalled Just the Facts amp Sun microsystems August 2002 57 Description Part Number A29 PS2 9Z 4GAJN Random Non Standard Configuration Sun Blade 2000 workstation with two 900 MHz UltraSPARC III Cu processor with 8 MB cache 4 GB memory one 73 GB 10000 rp
19. is possible with Sun Creator or a raw CPU It does this by adding specialized graphics floating point units and more powerful pixel drawing chips It supports a 1280 x 1024 96 bit deep frame buffer configured the same as the double buffered and Z buffered Sun Creator3D graphics The 96 bit pixels support two 24 bit color buffers an 8 bit pseudo color overlay buffer and a 28 bit Z buffer plus some miscellaneous control planes Sun Elite3D graphics has a highly parallel and efficient graphics pipeline The Sun Elite3D graphics architecture uses a new generation of 3D RAM chip This chip speeds up a read modify write pixel access from 160 ns to 10 ns changing all of the rules about graphics pipeline behavior AFB Command at the interface level is a superset of the Sun Creator ASIC chip The additional functionality supports rendering of model space geometry The main change is to allow the most important bits to be packaged up into single header words that can be passed down with the geometric data without stopping the pipeline Additional functionality includes complete binary compatibility with the register set and functions of Sun Creator3D graphics and support for the OpenGL platform Given the technological changes brought on by 3D RAM the primary justification for the existence of a 3D graphics accelerator is to deliver an order of magnitude more floating point performance than a contemporary general purpose RISC CPU at a price less than that
20. of a single CPU and cache amp Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 23 The Sun Elite3D m6 graphics accelerator is offered an an option to Sun Blade 2000 configurations Sun Elite3D m6 graphics provides a high level of performance with six high performance floating point processors It provides significantly higher levels of performance and functionality than the m3 model including Standard 24 bit color 1280 x 1024 resolution MPEG playback acceleration at 30 frames per second greater than 4 7 million 2D vectors per second greater than 8 2 million 3D vectors per second over 5 9 million triangles per second and on board image acceleration functions 88 bit planes including full 24 bit double buffer planes for smooth animation A 28 bit Z buffer is included to provide support for hidden surface removal and dynamic rendering of 3D objects Support for a wide array of important graphics functions including Bresenham lines polygons fonts accelerated dots lines triangles and quadrilaterals antialiasing of dots and lines Gouraud shaded triangles specular lighting hardware per pixel depth cueing transparency texture map support compressed 3D geometry decompression viewport clipping flexible blending operations and a full set of Boolean operations e Sun Mitsubishi developed 3D RAM to improve 3D graphics rendering performance Exploits the high floating point performance and VIS instruction set of the Ultra
21. rackmount single array 2 XT3ES RR 22 327 327 GB 9 x 18 GB rackmount dual array 2 XT3WG RR 11 327 327 GB 9 x 36 GB rackmount single array 2 XT3ES RR 22 655 655 GB 9 x 36 GB rackmount dual array 2 XT3WG RR 11 1310 1310 GB 9 x 73 GB rackmount single array 2 XT3ES RR 22 2620 2620 GB 9 x 73 GB rackmount dual array 2 External Tape Autoloaders and Libraries SG XAUTODLTSD L9 SG XRACKIT L9 SG XLIBDLTS1 L20 SG XLIB180 Base2 SG XLIB9840 Drv SG XLIBDLT8 Drv 360 GB Sun StorEdge L9 autoloader desktop Rackmounting kit for Sun StorEdge L9 autoloader Sun StorEdge L20 library deskside Sun StorEdge L180 tape library Sun StorEdge L180 tape library with 9840 Sun StorEdge L180 tape library with DLT Se Se eS eS Just the Facts amp Sun microsystems August 2002 68 Maximum Part Number Option Description Number Comments Supported PCI Expansion Cards X1033A 10BASE T Sun FastEthernet PCI adapter with MII interface 3 X1034A Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI Card QFE 4 X1141A Sun GigabitEthernet PCI adapter 2 0 4 X1150A Sun GigaSwift Ethernet UTP X1155A High speed serial interface PCI adapter 2 0 4 Universal X1157A SunATM 155 MFiber PCI adapter 4 0 4 X1158A SunATM 155 UTP PCI adapter 4 0 4 X1159A SunATM 622 MFiber PCI adapter 4 0 2 X2156A Serial asynchronous interface PCI adapter 3 0 for Solaris 8 4 Operating Environment X1032A PCI UItraSCSI SE with Ethernet 1 X5010A Single channel
22. relies on the power of the UltraSPARC CPU for floating point calculations and on the visual instruction set VIS software to accelerate imaging related operations This eliminates the need for a dedicated graphics processor and results in a significant cost advantage Ultra port architecture UPA high speed interconnect for graphics UPA provides a high speed high bandwidth interconnect between the CPU Sun Creator graphics and main memory It raises overall graphics performance while maintaining a balanced throughput Unlike the peripheral buses such as SBus or PCI the UPA interconnect ties Sun Creator graphics directly to the CPU and memory and delivers greater bandwidth by orders of magnitude UPA also allows Sun Creator3D to utilize main system memory for texturing allowing large texture mapping possibilities Sun Creator rendering ASIC FBC2 FBC2 ASIC renders graphic primitives at very high speeds FBC2 accelerates fills scrolling text lines and polygon rendering 3D RAM graphics memory This generation of the 3D RAM breakthrough in graphic memory provides high bandwidth and built in acceleration for 3D graphics amp Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 21 Scalable performance The performance of Sun Creator3D graphics takes advantage of general system performance enhancements and scales up with increases in CPU clock rate making it unnecessary to upgrade graphics as new generations of CPU
23. systems support four Sun PGX64 frame buffers installing the fourth buffer in the 66 MHz slot slows performance of the entire 66 MHz PCI bus to operate at 33 MHz Sun Creator3D Graphics Series 3 Overview Note Sun Creator3D series 3 graphics accelerator has been EOLed The Last Order Date for the EOLed graphics accelerator is September 6 2002 and the Last Ship Date for is December 6 2002 Sun Creator3D graphics series 3 is the latest generation of the Sun Creator graphics family of accelerators With one architecture it can accelerate and support diverse types of graphic needs ranging from 6 bit and 24 bit windowing to high end 3D graphics Sun Creator graphics is designed as an integral part of Sun Blade or Sun Enterprise servers and is therefore designed to take advantage of the UltraSPARC CPU performance increases to 300 MHz and beyond The original generation of Sun Creator graphics has a single graphics frame buffer clock for all on board logic This generation has one clock for the internal graphics processing and another clock for the frame buffer This design makes it possible to drive each part at its maximum speed Key Messages Solid graphics performance Sun Creator3D graphics performance is based upon the Sun Creator approach to designing graphics In series 3 the Sun Creator graphics technology is enhanced with up to 50 percent graphics performance improvement over series 1 UltraSPARC CPU Sun Creator graphics
24. 00 MHz UltraSPARC III Cu CPUs Adding any available Sun or third party option may render the configuration non compliant amp Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 42 Reliability Availability and Serviceability RAS Reliability The Sun Blade 2000 workstations support the following features to help ensure data integrity and reliable operation of the system End to end ECC on all memory transfers SEC DED S4ED to the CPUs and to the I O subsystems except UPA64S The ECC code detects and correct all single bit errors It also detects all double triple and quadruple bit errors that occur in the same nibble The Sun Blade 2000 workstation implementation allows detection of SDRAM chip failures due to a customized routing of the memory bus ECC protection on external cache ECC or parity on all major data buses Parity protection on interconnect address command bus all interconnect miscellaneous signals PCI and EPCI major data buses and cache RAM nternal error detection and reporting on all ASICs Generation of reset on fatal error by BBC as much state as possible is preserved in processor and ASICS for analysis Checksum on BootPROM Extensive power on self test POST Power down of subsystems when not in use In addition to supporting the above features reliability is designed in by Extensive signal integrity analysis Providing adequate decoupling Extensive EM susceptibility and
25. 01 or later for systems using the UItraSPARC II Cu processor OBP Revision 4 X or newer 4 5 X or newer Key Messages The Sun Blade 2000 systems are very high performance 64 bit workstations that support technical applications that require exceptional computational speed and lots of memory for large data sets Standard configurations of the Sun Blade 2000 come with 900 MHz UltraSPARC III Cu processors Configurations with the high performance 1 05 GHz processor module are also available All Sun Blade 2000 processors come with 8 MB of L2 cache Systems have an 8 GB memory capacity Memory is installed in banks of four DIMMs to take advantage of the architecture s 576 bit wide memory path UPA provides a crossbar oriented interconnection establishing a 144 bit wide ECC protected data path to the CPU Clocked at up to 150 MHz the UPA crossbar gives a peak throughput of over 1 2 GB second The Sun Blade 2000 workstations provide customers with several graphics solutions from the single display low cost 2D graphics solutions to multi display high performance texture mapping 3D graphics solutions Sun PGX64 graphics is a low cost option for those customers that only require 2D graphics Up to four cards are supported in a single system Sun Expert3D graphics is Sun s high end hardware accelerated texture mapping option Up to two graphics cards are supported Sun Exper
26. 012A 20 GB 4 mm DDS 4 tape drive in a UniPack desktop 2 enclosure SG 4MMDDS410 4 mm DDS 4 tapes 10 pack S 5 e SUN microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 65 Maximum Part Number Option Description Number Comments Supported SGXMEDDLTCIV 10 SLT Type IV tapes 10 pack SG XMED4MMCL 10 DDS 4 tape cleaners 10 pack SG XMEDDLTCL 10 SLT tape cleaners linear 10 pack SG XDSK010C 18G 18 2 GB 7200 rpm UniPack 4 SG XDSK010C 36G 36 4 GB 10000 rpm UniPack 4 SG XTAPAMM 011A 12 GB 4 mm DDS 3 tape drive UniPack desktop 2 enclosure SG XTAP8MM 010A 7 GB 8 mm drive in a UniPack desktop enclosure 2 SG XTAPAMM 012A 20 GB 4 mm DDS 4 2 SG XTAP8MM 011A 20 GB 8 mm drive in a UniPack desktop enclosure 2 SG XDSK010C 9G 9 1 GB 7200 rpm UniPack 4 Mass Storage Sun StorEdge FlexiPack The following FlexiPack options come with a 68 to 68 pin SCSI cable SG XTAPDLT 021A 35 GB DLT 7000 tape desktop full height 2 SG XTAPAMM 021A 12 GB 4 mm DDS 3 tape FlexiPack half height 2 SG XTAPAMM 031A 72 GB 4 mm DDS 3 tape FlexiPack desktop autoloader 2 SG XTAP8MM 020A 7 GB 8 mm tape FlexiPack half height 2 SG XTAP8MM 021A 20 GB 8 mm tape FlexiPack desktop half height 2 X6166A SunCD 32X internal CD ROM expansion drive X6168A DVD ROM 10X internal X6212A 7 GB 8 mm DDS 3 internal tape expansion drive X6236A 20 GB 8 mm internal tape for FlexiPack X6282A 12 GB DDS 3 tape drive Mass Storage Sun StorEdge MultiPack SG XDSK020
27. 10 X 2 1440 x 900 76 Hz Sun 16 10 X X X 2 1280x1024 96 108 112 Hz Sun Stereo 5 4 x 2 1280 x 1024 60 75 85 Hz VESA 5 4 X X X 2 X 1280 x 1024 67 76 Hz Sun 5 4 X X X 2 X 1280 x 800 112 Hz Sun Stereo 16 10 x X 2 1280 x 800 76 Hz Sun 16 10 X X X 3 X 1280 x 768 56 Hz Sun 5 3 X X X 5 X 1152 x 900 120 Hz Sun Stereo 5 4 X X 2 1152 x 900 66 76 Hz Sun 5 4 X X X 3 X 1024 x 800 84 Hz Sun 4 3 X X X 4 X 1024 x 768 77 Hz Sun 4 3 X X X 5 X 1024 x 768 60 70 75 Hz VESA 4 3 X X X 5 X 960 x 680 108 112 Hz Sun Stereo 14 10 X X 6 X 800 x 600 75 Hz VESA 4 3 X X X 8 X 768 x 575 501 Hz PAL PAL X X X 10 X 640 x 480 180fsc Hz X 16 X 640 x 480 60 72 75 Hz VESA 4 3 X X X 16 X 640 x 480 601 Hz NTSC NTSC X X X 16 X Note All resolutions marked VESA use separate sync the remainder use composite sync With two Sun XVR 1000 graphics boards in a workstation up to four displays can be driven at 1280 x 1024 resolution in mono mode If the four display environment requires stereo graphics the maximum resolution that the four displays can be driven at is 960 x 680 112 Hz Sun XVR 1000 graphics has a VESA standard 8 pin mini DIN stereo connector and supports stereoscopic graphics video output in the standard Sun stereo resolutions supported by both Sun Creator3D and Sun Elite3D graphics It also supports the much higher stereo resolutions supported by the Sun FD 21 inch display and Sun 24 inch display Frame Lock and sy
28. 2002 50 Features Extended device and support nternationalization X11R6 4 Real Time application Enhanced security features Benefits I O Connect with Sun using the customer s favorite devices including DVD ZIP and JAZ drives and USB 1394 SCSI UPA and PCI buses The Solaris 8 Operating Environment is a comprehensive global product that supports 37 languages and over 90 locales the euro currency symbol and complex text formats for the Arabic Thai and Hebrew languages Additional language installation tools expanded Unicode support and improved data interoperability utilities greatly simplify the development and testing of applications for international markets Runs X applications in a browser and provides single logical screen across multiple display devices Offers scalable fixed priority and fully preemptive scheduling using multiple high resolution per CPU interval timers Provides priority inheritance for synchronization by multi threaded realtime applications such as simulation telemetry data acquisition signal processing and video on demand Increased support for security protocols and additional technologies including IPSec AMI Kerberos v5 and smart cards reduce the chance of security related downtime New Features in Solaris 8 Update 7 The latest update of the Solaris 8 Operating Environment is Solaris 8 Update 7 or Solaris 2 02 The following features are new in this update
29. 4 inch monitor to display their 2D and 3D data resolution Supports stereo mode graphics at Allows customers to display 3D data in stereo mode at 1280 x 1024 resolution higher resolutions providing enhanced realism for immersive applications Supports SuperScene antialiasing Improves rendered image quality Graphics framelock support Enables multiple graphics frame buffers to be used ina a single or multiple systems to render to very high screen resolutions Up to two Sun Expert3D cards can be installed in the Sun Blade 2000 workstations Implemented as a full length PCI graphics card Sun Expert3D graphics features internal I O ports for multi viewing and external I O ports for external video synchronization and stereo capabilities Connecting these multi viewing ports together allows frame locking and rate locking of multiple Sun Expert3D cards in a single workstation in order to display synchronous multiscreen applications Sun Expert3D Lite Graphics Sun Expert3D Lite graphics is a derivative product based on the Sun Expert3D graphics board Sun Expert3D Lite graphics offers many of the same features as its predecessor but at a lower cost Features include on board 3D geometry acceleration hardware based texture mapping and high resolution 24 bit 3D support for all of Sun s PCI based workstations Sun Expert3D Lite graphics accelerates 3D geometry at up to 4 million triangles second and provides up to three times the texture
30. B FC AL 10000 rpm drive option Just the Facts amp Sun microsystems August 2002 64 Options Below is a comprehensive list of system expansion networking graphics and multimedia options that are supported by Sun Blade 2000 systems Refer to the Sun Price Book and configuration guides for currently available option listings configuration notes and ordering information When no maximum number is listed refer to ordering or configuration notes for that option Note Options listed in italics are supported by the Sun Blade 2000 workstations but are no longer available for purchase from Sun These are listed only for reference purposes Maximum Part Number Option Description Number Comments Supported Processors USIII Cu X7017A 1 05 GHz UltraSPARC III Cu module 2 He speed cannot X7009A 900 MHz UltraSPARC III Cu module 2 be mixed Cu processor cannot be mixed with non Cu processors Mass Storage Internal X6742A 73 GB 10000 rpm FC AL disk 2 Mass Storage Removable Media X6006A 3 5 inch 1 44 MB manual eject floppy drive triple 1 density X6168A DVD ROM 10X speed 1 X6282A 12 GB to 24 GB 4 mm DDS 3 tape drive 1 X6295A 20 GB 4 mm DDS 4 tape drive 1 External Tape Options Sun StorEdge FlexiPack and UniPack Systems X6540A Dual channel SE SCSI X5010A Single channel SE SCSI X1032A SE SCSI Fast Ethernet Mass Storage Sun StorEdge UniPack 68 pin SCSI SG XTAP4MM
31. C 36G 36 4 GB 2 x 18 2 GB 10000 rpm MultiPack 1 One Sun SG XDSK020C 72G 72 8 GB 2 x 36 4 GB 10000 rpm MultiPack 1 StorEdge SG XDSK040C 72G 72 8 GB 4 x 18 2 GB 10000 rpm MultiPack 1 EE SG XDSK040C 144G 145 6 GB 4 x 36 4 GB 10000 rpm MultiPack 1 SCSI channel SG XDSK060C 109G 109 2 GB 6 x 18 2 GB 10000 rpm MultiPack 1 SG XDSK060C 218C 218 6 GB 6 x 36 4 GB 10000 rpm MultiPack 1 SG XDSK020C 18G 18 2 GB 2 x 9 1 GB 10000 rpm MultiPack 1 SG XDSK040C 36G 36 4 GB 4 x 9 1 GB 10000 rpm MultiPack 1 SG XDSK060C 54G 54 6 GB 6 x 9 1 GB 10000 rpm MultiPack 1 X5237A 18 GB UltraSCSI 10000 rpm drive X5242A 36 GB UltraSCSI 10000 rpm drive X5234A 9 GB UltraSCSI 10000 rpm drive Y Just the Facts August 2002 66 Part Number Option Description Maximum Number Supported Comments Mass Storage Sun StorEdge A1000 Arrays SG XARY150A 72G SG XARY170A 145G SG XARY170A 436G SG XARY155A 72G SG XARY171A 145G SG XARY155A 218G SG XARY171A 436G SG XARY144A 36G SG XARY144A 109G SG XARY146A 36G SG XARYI51A 218G SG XARYI61A 291G 72 GB Sun StorEdge A1000 tabletop array 4 x 18 GB 10000 rpm disks 145 GB Sun StorEdge A1000 tabletop array 4 x 36 4 GB 10000 rpm disks 436 GB Sun StorEdge A1000 tabletop array 12 x 36 4 GB 10000 rpm disks 72 GB Sun StorEdge A1000 rackmountable array 4 x 18 GB 10000 rpm disks 145 GB Sun StorEdge A1000 rackmountable array 4 x 36 4 GB 10000 rpm disks 218 GB Sun StorEdge A1000 rackmount ar
32. G XARY173A 436G 436 GB Sun StorEdge D1000 rackmount array 12 x 36 4 GB 10000 rpm disks Y es e SUN microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 67 Maximum Part Number Option Description Number Comments Supported SG XARY145A 36G 36 GB Sun StorEdge D1000 tabletop array 4 x 9 1 GB 10000 rpm disks SG XARY145A 3109G 1409 GB Sun StorEdge D1000 tabletop array 12 x 9 1 GB 10000 rpm disks SG XARY147A 36G 36 GB Sun StorEdge D1000 rackmountable array 4 x 9 1 GB 10000 rpm disks SG XARYI63A 145G 145 GB Sun StorEdge D1000 tabletop array 4 x 36 4 GB 10000 rpm disks Sun StorEdge A5200 Arrays X6727A PCI dual FC network adapter 1 SG XARY540A 127G 127 GB Sun StorEdge 5200 tabletop array 2 7 x 18 2 GB 10000 rpm disks SG XARY540A 400G 400 GB Sun StorEdge 5200 tabletop array 2 22 x 18 GB 10000 rpm disks SG XARY560A 254G 254 GB Sun StorEdge 5200 tabletop array 2 7 x 36 GB 10000 rpm disks SG XARY560A 800G 400 GB Sun StorEdge 5200 tabletop array 2 22 x 36 GB 10000 rpm disks Sun StorEdge T3 Arrays XT3WG TT 11 163 163 GB 9 x 18 GB tabletop single array 2 Cannot mix XT3ES TT 22 327 327 GB 9 x 18 GB tabletop dual array 2 Sun StorEdge XT3WG TT 11 327 327 GB 9 x 36 GB tabletop single array 2 UN x XT3ES TT 22 655 655 GB 9 x 36 GB tabletop dual array 2 single system XT3WG TT 11 1310 1310 GB 9 x 73 GB tabletop single array 2 XT3ES TT 22 2620 2620 GB 9 x 73 GB tabletop dual array 2 XT3WG RR 11 163 163 GB 9 x 18 GB
33. IS Just the Facts The ability to render objects from a palette of 16 7 million colors It is often referred to as true color and results in much more realistic shading of 3D objects for enhanced image quality Dual ported video memory with graphics functionality built into the memory chip See Fast Ethernet A graphics technique that greatly enhances the quality of images by eliminating many of the inaccuracies jaggies inherent to rendering on a raster display Typically found only in high end graphics systems Dual inline memory module A memory unit that can come in a variety of sizes such as 16 32 64 and 128 MB IEEE standard for 100 Mb Ethernet This technology supports a data transfer rate of 100 megabits per second over special grades of twisted pair wiring Sun s distributed computing file system Open database connectivity The de facto standard software interface for graphics hardware that allows programmers to create interactive 3D applications The OpenGL API provides a full featured network transparent application programming interface Peripheral component interconnect A industry standard for connecting peripherals such as disk drives tapes drives and other devices used in the PCs Ultra port architecture A high speed crossbar oriented packet switched mother board interconnect Version 9 of the SPARC definition Visual instruction set The UItraSPARC III Cu processor implements a special
34. Number Option Description Number Comments Supported X2069A FC AL Gigabit Ethernet for Solaris 8 Operating Environment 2 X7041A 64 MB DIMM memory expansion for SunPCi I 2 X7035A 128 MB DIMM memory expansion for SunPCi I 2 Graphics and Imaging X3685A Sun XVR 500 graphics 4 X3256A Sun XVR 1000 graphics 2 X3768A Sun PGX64 graphics card 4 X3670A Sun Creator3D series 3 graphics card 2 X3679A Sun Elite3D m6 series 2 graphics accelerator 2 X3678A Sun Expert3D graphics board 2 X3684A Sun Expert3D Lite PCI based graphics 2 X3682A Sun 1392 Visual Collaboration Kit 1 X3677A Sun Elite3D m3 series 2 graphics accelerator 2 X3668A PGX32 8 and 24 bit color graphics PCI adapter frame 3 buffer CD and cable Monitors and Adapters X7143A 17 inch color monitor X7137A 18 1 inch TFT LCD color monitor X7146A 21 inch flat screen color Trinitron monitor X7134A Widescreen 24 inch flat panel monitor X7124A Widescreen 24 inch color monitor X471A 13W3F to HD15M video adapter cable X3872A HD15F to 13W3 video adapter X7127A 18 1 inch TFT LCD color monitor X7135A 19 inch flat screen color Trinitron monitor X7136A 21 inch flat screen color Trinitron monitor Miscellaneous Options X5681A Smart card reader for serial or USB port X1400A Extra cards for smart card reader 25 pack Type6 Country Kits Except for X3531A US Canada Universal 1 Ee SE X3532A French 1 ege X3533A German 1 included with X3534A Swiss French 1 every Sun X3535A Swiss German 1 Blade system X3536A Sw
35. RC III Cu processors X option X7017A Notes All customer VEUs are different Processor speeds cannot be mixed on the same workstation amp Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 73 The UltraSPARC III Cu 900 MHz module UltraSPARC III Cu and 1 05 Ghz UltraSPARC III Cu module do and not mix with 600 750 900 MHz UItraSPARC III CPU modules Customers must remove their existing 600 750 900 MHz modules from the system and then install UItraSPARC III Cu 900 MHz module or UltraSPARC III Cu 1 05 Ghz UltraSPARC III Cu module Before upgrading to the UltraSPARC III Cu processors customers must be running the 2 02 version of the Solaris 8 Operating Environment amp Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 74 Upgrade Paths System Allowance Code Part EE Upgrade From Upgrade To EE Customer Returns Sun Any Sun workstation A Sun Blade 2000 See Desktop System A complete Workstations workstation Migration and Allowance functioning system Matrix for available configurations and trade in allowances SunWIN 94726 Non Sun Any Non Sun A Sun Blade 2000 See Desktop System A complete Workstations workstation workstation Migration and Allowance functioning system Matrix for available configurations and trade in allowances SunWIN 94726 CPUs 600 MHz 900 MHz See Component Migration and A 600 MHz CPU UItraSPARC III UltraSPARC III Cu Allowance Matrix for trade i
36. SPARC III processor High speed RAMDAC can display 8 bit and 24 bit images simultaneously and features a programmable video timing generator for multiple resolution support Completely compatible with existing Sun graphics APIs including X11 XGL and XIL graphics libraries Also compatible with the OpenGL API a vendor neutral 2D and 3D graphics API In line with its philosophy of uninhibited expansion potential the Sun Blade 1000 and 2000 workstations have two UPAOAS slots to allow dual headed two monitor Sun Elite3D graphics operation Sun Elite3D Graphics Features and Benefits Features Benefits Integrated imaging Performs fast imaging and 3D on unified frame buffer Very high performance accelerated Smooth animation and interactivity of 3D graphics 24 bit double buffered 3D graphics 26 bit Z buffer Improves visual quality and depth accuracy 8 bit overlay plane Allows overlay of 8 bit windows on top of the 24 bit visuals without damaging the underlying visual allowing virtually seamless integration and manipulation of windows Gouraud shading Allows smooth shading of solid geometry Acceleration for geometry Allows complex compress geometry to be decompressed decompression at hardware rates Alpha blending and screen door Simulates transparent materials such as glass transparency amp Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 24 Features Line and big dot antialiasing Per pixel d
37. Sun Blade 2000 Workstations Just the Facts icrosystems Copyrights 2002 Sun Microsystems Inc All Rights Reserved Sun Sun Microsystems the Sun logo Sun Blade Solaris Ultra VIS Forte PGX PGX24 PGX32 VIS OpenWindows XGL XIL Sun Enterprise Sun OpenGL for Solaris Java Java 3D SunVideo SunVideo Plus Sun StorEdge SunMicrophone SunVTS Sun Fire Solstice Solstice AdminTools Solstice Enterprise Agents ShowMe ShowMe How ShowMe TV SunPCi StarOffice iPlanet Solaris Resource Manager Java 2D Netra SunCD Sun Quad FastEthernet SunFDDI SunATM SunCamera SunForum SunSpectrum SunSpectrum Platinum SunSpectrum Gold SunSpectrum Silver SunSpectrum Bronze SunSolve and SunClient are trademarks registered trademarks or service marks of Sun Microsystems Inc in the United States and other countries All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International Inc in the United States and other countries Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems Inc UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and in other countries exclusively licensed through X Open Company Ltd FireWire is a registered trademark of Apple Computer Inc used under license OpenGL is a trademark of Silicon Graphics Inc which may be registered in certain jurisdictions Netscape is a trademark of Netscape Communications Corpor
38. Sun Creator3D Sun Elite3D uou aeque Sun Expert3D Graphics Figure 5 Graphics software interfaces The Sun Blade 2000 systems support all Solaris 8 Operating Environment graphics and window system APIs including OpenGL and Display PostScript A large number of Sun and third party graphics APIs are also supported including IRIS GL OpenGL GKS HOOPS and Java 3D software Industry standard X extension libraries such as Xlib and PEXIib are available 4 Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 53 The Solaris Operating Environment System Requirements Disk Space End user 25 MB Developer 40 MB runtime binaries and header files Memory Minimum 1 GB Typical 2 GB for serious applications Note Required disk space varies based on OS packages selected desktop or server use desired swap tmp space localization or translations online documentation and applications installed The Solaris Operating Environment Licensing and Usage Under the Free Solaris Binary License Program program Sun is making the binary runtime version of its Solaris 8 Operating Environment available to everyone who accepts the terms of the Solaris 8 Binary Code License BCL and the Free Solaris Binary License Program There are no fees for the right to use the software on computers with a capacity of eight or fewer processors just a small charge for the media kit Refer to http www sun com software solaris for cur
39. Z gives things at the front of the scene more precision than those at the back Multiple flexible video output capabilities from a single board Analog S Video output for displaying graphics on a TV monitor or recorded to a VCR Dual display RGB support from single frame buffer Supports standard 13W3 and HD 15 analog as well as the new digital DVI standard for driving digital flat panels and high end projection systems The ability to program resolutions in the hardware allows end users to define non standard resolution output for specialty displays Display Resolutions Sun XVR 1000 graphics video timings monitor screen resolutions for the main 13W3 are listed below Sun XVR 1000 graphics supports full 30 bit 2D and 3D double Z buffered at all supported resolutions ui ier Refresh Pn T ad 13W3 S Video HD15 DVi D Samples Dual 1920x 1200 60d Hz Sun 16 10 x X x 1 1920x 1200 70 75 Hz Sun 16 10 x 1 1920x1080 60d Hz Sun 16 9 X X X 1 1920x 1080 72 Hz Sun 16 9 x 1 1792 x 1344 60 75 Hz VESA 43 x 1 1600x 1280 76 Hz Sun 5 4 x 1 amp Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 33 Repay a aea Refresh Sync rd Ret 13W3 S Video HDIS DVi D Samples Dual 1600x1200 od Hz VESA 4 3 X X X 1 1600 x 1200 60 73 75 Hz VESA 4 3 X 1 1600 x 1024 60 Hz X 2 1600 x 1000 66 76 Hz Sun 16
40. accommodate four PCI boards Sun PGX64 graphics is a PCI based graphics board providing support for all current Sun PCI based workstations and workgroup and enterprise servers as well as future workstations and workgroup servers supporting PCI Sun PGX64 graphics include the following features ATI s RageXL graphics processor 2D graphics acceleration 8 MB SGRAM 24 bit only true color video support up to 1920 x 1200 8 bit only pseudo color video support up to 1600 x 1000 33 MHz 32 bit 5 volt PCI card short form factor lt 7 inch length Low power consumption 8 watts e HD15 video connector on the motherboard supports composite and separate video sync timing amp Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 19 Compatible with OpenWindows environment CDE windowing and supports the following APIs X11 Motif JDK XGL XIL and OpenGL API via a software pipeline Backwards compatibility with Sun s PGX24 and PGX32 graphics accelerators including MUX support support for VESA Sun resolutions flexibility and so on Support for all Sun monitor products released since 1995 A HD15 to 13W3 video connector cable is included to connect to monitors with the 13W3 interface Sun PGX64 graphics supports the resolutions shown in the table below for VESA resolutions and composite sync for Sun resolutions Sun PGX64 graphic
41. arate valid bits The prefetch cache is write invalidate Enhanced Data Memory Management Unit The data memory management unit of UltraSPARC III Cu is enhanced to provide more translation entries and to provide more support for using large pages for translation For the data reference address stream translation there are three TLBs accessed in parallel The first TLB is a 16 entry fully associative TLB This TLB can translate page sizes of 8K 64K 512K and 4M The second TLB is a 256 set 2 way set associative 512 entries TLB This TLB can translate at 8K 64K 512K and 4M page sizes but at any one time it is configured to only handle one of the page sizes The third TLB is identical to the second This TLB like the second can handle one of four page sizes and can be configured to the same or a different page size than the second TLB Having the two large TLBs is very important for general use of large pages for translation One of the TLBs can be set for large pages such as 4 MB pages while the other can be set to the default page size usually 8 KB pages With this configuration the processor has robust support for large pages Enhanced External Cache Unit The external cache for UltraSPARC III Cu can be configured as two way set associative This offers substantial improvements in the hit rate of cache The cache size and line size remains the same UltraSPARC Ill and UltraSPARC Ill Cu Processor Comparison Featu
42. atch DIMMs even within the same memory bank Please note this mixing andmatching of DIMMs ONLY applies to Sun Blade 2000 1000 From the view point of functionality and performance of the DIMM itself there are no differences Some minor changes were made server required capacitors were removed to remove dependency from server memory These new differentiated DIMMs are rigorously tested andperform identically to original DIMMs for Sun Blade 2000 1000 Graphics The Sun Blade 2000 workstations support the Sun PGX64 PCI graphics for non 3D applications as well as Sun Expert3D Sun Expert3D Lite Sun XVR 500 and Sun XVR 1000 high performance 3D graphics Monitors Monitors are not included with any Sun Blade 2000 systems The customer can choose among the 17 21 and 24 inch color monitor or the 18 and 24 inch flat panel display SCSI The internal SCSI host controller operates in Fast 20 UltraSCSI mode by default Installation of non FAST 20 devices although allowed decreases overall SCSI performance The total combined SCSI cable length must not exceed three meters for Fast Wide operation or 1 5 meters for Fast 20 UltraSCSD operation To achieve Fast 20 speeds on all devices on the bus it is recommended that e A maximum of two Sun StorEdge UniPack systems using Fast 20 cables be connected to the external connector All devices on the SCSI bus should be Fast 20 devices Non Fast 20 devices may
43. ation PostScript and Display PostScript are trademarks of Adobe Systems Inc which may be registered in certain jurisdictions Last Update 8 12 2002 amp Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 2 Table of Contents IN ue eil ele EE EE Introducing the Sun Blade 2000 20 Year Celebration Edition Workstations Sun Blade Workstation Product Line Placement Key Messages EE EE Target Sets us ue oett eee Re toe a A A RE RETE cues d ou adiret testae tete ee e EEN Target Markets Selling UE VL RR H L Compatibility Market Value Propositions EE 11 Enabling Technologies UltraSPARC III and UltraSPARC III Cu Processors eene nnne nnne nenne nnnen nns entes tenete sien 12 TO re A E EEUU SEENEN EE 12 Fiber Channel Arbitrated Loop PC AL treet 12 System Arclitect re EN E Technolo y Ereegnes hte cute e e ree Eae a teletelfete d LO TUR orc oren i 13 Techical Fact Surmmaty degen eege REL REIR ER 14 Processors in the Sun Blade 2000 Workstanons essent entre tns ettet enne nnns ere 14 UltraSPARC III Cu Processor Features Storage e Ee EE Ee Networking and YO SE E E TEE KOENEN Sun PGX64 E EE Sun Creator3D Graphics Series 3 Overview 7 Sun Elite3D Graphics RE EE EE Sun Expert3D Graphics Ovety1eW zu nuo EE GR en APR Pte nti eet Sum Expert3D Eite Graphics ose eate e aa rei E n e tio Det ire AEN Sun X V R 500
44. ature Sun Blade 1000 Sun Blade 2000 Dimensions 45 5 cm x 25 6 cm x 61 0 cm Hx Wx D 17 9 inches x 10 1 inches x 24 0 inches Weight 31 1 kg 70 Ib CPU and UPA e Architecture UltraSPARC III or UltraSPARC III Cu UltraSPARC III Cu superscalar 64 bit superscalar 64 bit V9 V9 Clock rate 750 MHz 900Mhz or 1 05GHz or higher with options Processor slots 2 2 64 KB D cache 32 KB I cache 8 MB 150 MHz Two 120 MHz graphics slots Serial ports Parallel port UPA graphics Internal disk access Memory Memory type ECC ECC Number of slots 8 8 Capacity 512 MB to 8 GB 1 to8 GB e DRAM speed 50 ns 50 ns Bus width 576 bits 576 bits e DIMMs 128 MB 256 MB and 1 GB SDRAM 256 MB 512 GB and 1 GB SDRAM I O Interfaces e UltraSCSI 68 pin Ultra Wide SCSI 40 MB sec Two RS 232C RS423 serial ports 384K Baud sync 460 8K Baud asynch DB25 F Industry standard USB port Centronics compatible one DB25 connector Two UPA slots FC AL access for mass storage e PCII O bus Three full size and one half size PCI slots version 2 1 Three at 33 MHz one at 33 or 66 MHz S es e SUN microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 38 Feature Sun Blade 1000 Sun Blade 2000 Graphics Imaging and Video Graphics supported in PCI slots Graphics supported in UPA slots Monitors supported Digital media Sun PGX64 Sun Expert3D Sun Expert3D Lite Sun XVR 500 Sun Creator3D Su
45. cause the internal devices to run at Fast Wide speeds but are supported Keyboard Type 6 USB keyboards are supported on the Sun Blade 2000 workstations Sun Blade 2000 Assemble to Order ATO Options The Sun Blade 2000 workstations are available with assemble to order ATO options This allows customers to configure systems to match their specifications amp Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 59 The primary use of ATO for the Sun Blade workstation is for customers who require a specific configuration not available from the list of standard configurations non standard configurations or promotional configurations The ATO process requires that the system be built to order and therefore has a longer lead time estimated at two weeks than standard configurations Follow the steps below to assemble a specific configuration of the Sun Blade 2000 workstation Step 1 Select a chassis Required Select one of the following chassis combinations Part Number Description A29 AA Sun Blade 2000 workstation in deskside tower two CPU slots eight memory slots four PCI I O slots two FC AL disk bays bay for DVD drive 1 44 MB floppy drive removable media bay 10 100 Mbit Ethernet Solaris Operating Environment license no CPU memory or disk included rackmountable on tray A29 AAV Sun Blade 2000 workstation in deskside tower with Danish power supply two CPU slots eight memory slots four PCI I O slots
46. eatures The UltraSPARC III Cu processor the second model in this family offers a number of performance enhancements This processor incorporates a number of data prefetching mechanisms to exploit memory level parallelism The processor offers an enhanced data memory management unit DMMU that has 1040 TLB entries and more support for flexibly using large pages up to 4 MB pages to more effectively map gigabytes of data The processor supports a two way set associative external cache instead of a direct mapped cache This updated processor includes all the features of its predecessor with a few significant improvements It is currently available at 900 and 1 05 GHz speeds Prefetch is enabled in the UltraSPARC III Cu modules This feature significantly improves floating point and integer arithmetic performance up to 15 percent The performance gain also comes from a combination of support for the two way set associate external cache and a larger cache table Specific applications in the oil and gas MCAE MCAD and EDA markets have seen significant performance boosts over the same speed UltraSPARC III CPU modules that do not have prefetch enabled Data Prefetching Support The UltraSPARC III Cu processor makes use of an advanced data prefetching mechanism This mechanism is used to both overlap load misses to increase memory level parallelism and to hide load miss latency This mechanism allows software to explicitly expose the memor
47. ecent years processor technology has moved so quickly that memory systems and interconnects have been hard pressed to keep up As a result many designs fail to deliver the data bandwidth that modern processors are capable of With the updated system interconnect Sun Microsystems continues the tradition of providing superior memory and I O bandwidth on its desktop systems Features of this system interconnect include Fast 150 MHz operating frequency offers greatly increased performance over previous designs Low latency memory access Completely separate address control and data paths for flexible implementation Out of order transaction processing enables multiple in flight transactions on the bus at one time More economical implementation through distributed control no central memory controller required Integrated support for multiprocessor configurations 4 8 GB sec peak data bandwidth Separate address and data paths so no ordering on data and better load balancing Distributed arbitration for address control no need for central arbiter Boot bus provides alternate path for booting and diagnostic Energy Star mode built in ECC on data parity on private data bus parity on address control The Sun Fireplane interconnect directly connects the two UltraSPARC III Cu processors and the I O bridge The address bus runs at half the speed of the data paths and utilizes DTL signaling One of the major architectural inno
48. edish Loa X3537A United Kingdom 1 Country Kit X3538A US UNIX 1 sub section X3554A Taiwanese 1 above for details S Just the Facts August 2002 70 Maximum Part Number Option Description Number Comments Supported X3555A Korean 1 X3556A Japanese 1 X3558A United Kingdom UNIX 1 X3559A European UNIX 1 X3560A Norwegian 1 X3561A Portuguese 1 X3562A Spanish 1 X3563A Danish 1 X3564A Italian 1 X3565A Dutch Netherlands 1 X3566A Australian 1 X3567A Finnish 1 X3582A Chinese 1 X3583A European cordless 1 S Just the Facts August 2002 71 Upgrades Key Messages The Sun Upgrade Allowance Program offers customers outstanding investment protection for their existing Sun equipment Upgrades are available for specific configurations within the Sun Blade Sun Blade 2000 product family e Sun upgrades allow as many components as possible to be carried forward to protect the customer s hardware investment Existing investments in non Sun hardware can be preserved by upgrading to Sun through competitive full system upgrades Sun Upgrade Allowance Program Sun UAP Sun UAP offers customers a simple flexible and easy to understand way of ordering desktop workstation upgrades Sun UAP is a percentage based model This model simplifies the upgrades process by providing a trade in value as a percentage allowance This percentage allowance can then be applied to the list price of a regular Sun system configuration
49. epth cueing Per pixel alpha interpolation 4 bit stencil support with hardware acceleration of OpenGL API stencil functions Accelerated lighting Four 8 bit color maps Adjustable gamma correction NTSC PAL video timing support Stereo 960 x 680 at 112 Hz supported with 21 inch monitor 1280 x 1024 at 76 Hz resolution standard Two serial port connectors Dual headed support two Sun Elite3D m6 frame buffers and or two Sun Creator3D frame buffers Sun OpenGL for Solaris XGL3 0 XIL X and Java 3D API support Binary compatibility with Sun Creator graphics product family Benefits Needed in MCAD and visualization for better visual quality More accurate depth cueing or fog Variable transparency Enables hardware acceleration for OpenGL API More lights can be turned on for enhanced visual display without encountering large performance penalties Dynamic color map segment allocation when running 8 bit window systems should eliminate color flashing problems Allows users to gamma correct visuals for enhanced visual quality Supports frame buffer to video timing With frame buffer monitor and window systems support for stereo users can see better representation of 3D data High resolution display quality For VR peripherals For users who need to be able to do multiple things simultaneously such as command and control applications 3D and video playback for animators
50. evices Initially devices such as the Sun Type 6 keyboard and mouse are supported along with USB hubs Sun Blade 2000 workstations have four Type A USB connectors on the rear panel IEEE 1394 interface IEEE 1394 also known in the industry as FireWire has emerged as a standard for medium speed devices such as digital cameras and digital video cameras IEEE 1394 interfaces provide an isochronous service that provides latency along with delivering a 400 Mbps bandwidth that is required for transferring large images and other multimedia data The Sun Blade 2000 workstations have two IEEE 1394 6 pin connectors on the rear panel Fiber Channel Arbitrated Loop FC AL Sun has been an early and aggressive adopter of Fiber Channel arbitrated loop FC AL technology in its higher end systems and disk array technologies The Sun Blade 2000 workstations are Sun s first desktop systems using this exciting high bandwidth 1 Gbit second technology offering considerable performance advantage and deployment flexibility over the slower UItraSCSI technology Only FC AL disk drives are supported for internal disk storage in the Sun Blade 2000 workstations amp Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 12 System Architecture Technology Overview Sun Blade 2000 workstation architecture is designed to provide high performance multiprocessing power scalability reliability and flexibility in a balanced package that does not compro
51. ew levels of flexibility Feature Sun XVR 1000 Graphics Frame Buffer Memory 72 MB 256 MB 1920 x 1200 75 Hz 1920 x 1200 75 Hz 1280 x 1024 112 Hz Texture Memory Max 2D Resolution 30 bit color Max 3D Resolution 30 bit color Max 3D Stereo Resolution Single Pass Supersampling Capable Yes Dual Video Output Yes 4 Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 32 Key Features High performance 2D and 3D graphics acceleration including on board geometry acceleration resulting in a display rate of 19 9M triangles per second two to four times that of Sun Elite3D m6 and Sun Expert3D graphics Hardware based high performance texture mapping up to 163 MP sec texture fill rate and with dedicated 256 MB of texture memory Superior quality 3D via single pass supersampled antialiasing High resolutions supported in 2D and 3D up to HDTV resolutions Supports up to 1920 x 1200 30 bit color DB 26 bit Z buffered Support up to 1280 x 1020 112 stereo output e 30 bit 10 bit channel color support with 10 bit alpha channel 38 bit RGB A which provides not only more colors but eliminates color banding effects with high definition images 26 bit floating point Z buffer Requires fewer bits pixel compared to the fixed point format 26 versus 32 thereby reducing the Z buffer memory requirements s much better in resolving far away pixels a floating point
52. exploration market segments Sun OpenGL for Solaris software is compatible with and accelerated for Sun workstations with the Sun PGX64 Sun Creator Sun Creator3D Sun Elite3D Sun Expert3D Sun Expert3D Lite Sun XVR 500 and Sun XVR 1000 graphics products It is also compatible with legacy SPARCstation systems equipped with GZ ZX PGX PGX24 and PGX32 frame buffers Features and Benefits Sun OpenGL for Solaris software provides the following features Features Benefits Multiscreen rendering for super Users no longer need to rewrite their 3D applications to take high resolution 3D visualization advantage of the multiple screens Xinerama 64 bit OpenGL library support Allows OpenGL applications to take advantage of the full 64 bit addressing in the Solaris Operating Environment Additional interface imaging and 3D Offers a more portable interface for imaging operation texturing during 3D texture mapping Texture level of detail control Offers better texture memory utilization BGRA and packed pixel formats Supports more file and hardware data types Texture specular color Allows more realistic lighting effects with texturing Texture edge clamping Avoids blending border and image texels during texturing Constant texture data extension Helps reduce texture mapping memory utilization and loading time amp Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 55 Features Benef
53. features Features include modeling transformations color lighting and smooth shading as well as advanced features such as texture mapping NURBS fog alpha blending and motion blur Sun OpenGL for Solaris software works in both immediate and non editable display list modes Using the Xinerama X window extension available in Solaris 7 or 8 Operating Environment release 11 99 or later users can configure their systems to utilize multiple frame buffers as one large super high resolution virtual display Sun OpenGL for Solaris software allows existing OpenGL API based applications to run virtually without change in a multi screen Xinerama environment Widespread multivendor availability of OpenGL software allows source code portability of 3D graphics applications across platforms Sun OpenGL for Solaris software is a compliant implementation of OpenGL 1 2 specification from the OpenGL Architecture Review Board ARB and is source code compatible with other conformant OpenGL software on the market Most existing OpenGL applications need only to be recompiled in order to run with Sun OpenGL for Solaris software Sun OpenGL for Solaris software is targeted at developers creating interactive 3D graphics applications for technical creative and analytical markets Potential users include those in computer aided design and manufacturing global information systems simulation industrial design and modeling entertainment biochemistry and petroleum
54. fer 64 MB 32 MB 32 MB 72 MB memory On board 64 MB 16 MB 16 MB 256 MB texture memory Geometry 6 0 M 4 1M 8 2M 19 1 M performance tris sec Texture fill 118 M 88 M 166M 157 M rate pix sec Just the Facts amp Sun microsystems August 2002 35 Feature Sun Expert3D Sun Expert3D Lite Sun XVR 500 Sun XVR 1000 APIs OpenGL Xlib Java 3D OpenGL Xlib OpenGL Java 3D supported XIL via X shared memory only Java 3D software interfaces Y amp sS e SUN microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 36 Graphics Benchmarks The benchmarks in the table below are for the 900 MHz Sun Blade 2000 workstation Sun Sun Sum Sum Sun Sun Sun Boones PGX64 Creatorip PXPENBSD EBD ropenap XVR 500 XVR 1000 Xmark93 16 9 44 7 26 0 47 9 29 8 2D Vectors per sec 558 K 49M 6 8M 6 1 M 7 9M 15 2M 3D Performance e 3D vectors sec 3 7 M 8 1M 8 8 M 10 5 M 13 1M 11 1M 3D tris sec 1 5M 4 1 M 5 9 M 6 0M 8 0M 19 1 M 3D quads sec 698 K 2 0M 21M 21M 3 7M 5 6M 3D texture fill 13M 88M 56M 118M 166M 157M pixels sec ViewPerf 6 1 1 e ProCDRS 02 10 8 22 9 24 1 29 2 es DX 05 17 6 37 3 34 8 39 0 AWadvs 03 19 6 55 1 23 4 65 1 ViewPerf 6 1 2 e ProCDRS 03 6 0 13 6 12 6 17 2 28 0 38 47 DX 06 5 4 12 5 10 6 12 8 15 8 15 91 e AWadvs 04 18 9 44 0 20 6 552 69 3 58 25 Note Configuration fo
55. ffer audio removing three screws from the rear panel and sliding the board forward and directly upward Hard disk drives All internal hard drives plug directly into the internal FC AL backplane No drive jumpering or configuration is required Drives are secured with the spud bracket which provides the necessary shock and vibration isolation drive to chassis grounding and chassis mounting locking features Power supply The power supply is secured to the chassis by six loose screws Supply removal is accomplished by removing the side cover disconnecting cables from the motherboard removing the power supply screws sliding the supply back and lifting it out of the chassis DIMMs Accessible by removing the top panel A built in ejector facilitates removal and installation of the memory DIMMs Side cover The side cover may be removed by hand without the use of tools Chassis bottom housing The chassis provides securing points for the power supply motherboard and disk drives The motherboard and power supply drop into securing hooks or slides and are secured with screws Hard disk drives slide into brackets in the chassis and are secured by latches on the drives themselves Removable media devices are secured to a bracket with common M3 Phillips screws amp Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 45 System Management Software Requirements Sun Blade 2000 systems run the 2 02 version of the Solaris Operati
56. figurations The 600 MHz model of the Sun Blade 1000 workstation is no longer available The 750 MHz configurations of the Sun Blade 1000 workstation are being discontinued with a last order date of June 30 2002 and a last ship date of November 8 2002 The EOLed 750 MHz Sun Blade 1000 system configurations are replaced by 900 MHz UItraSPARC Cu Sun Blade 2000 system configurations Memory The Sun Blade 2000 workstations support 8 GB of main memory This architecture currently accepts 128 MB 256 MB 512 MB and 1 GB memory modules amp Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 58 The Sun Blade 2000 workstations can accommodate up to 8 DIMM modules in increments of four DIMM modules within each set must be of the same type DIMM module sets of four may be mixed NOTE Some Sun Blade 2000 configurations use differentiated DIMMS The new differentiated DIMMs will have the same performance and functionality as previous DIMMS but they are no longer compatible with Sun enterprise servers These new DIMMs are specifically designed amp tested for the Sun Blade 2000 280R products and because they are no longer compatible with Sun enterprise servers they are called differentiated DIMMS to differentiate from Sun standard memory DIMMs It is possible to mix and match differentiated DIMMs with previous DIMMs in a Sun Blade 2000 without any degradation of performance or change in funcionality You can mix and m
57. for these graphics options are outlined below Customers can mix and match until they run out of slots in the system Any combination of cards is allowed as long as there are no slot conflicts The slot configurations and physical positions are shown in the table below Gray areas indicate slots incompatible with the specified graphics card Customers can install total of four graphics cards on one system Just the Facts amp Sun microsystems August 2002 61 Graphics Board Dee UPA Slot 0 i d UPA Slot 1 PCI Slot 3 PCI Slot 2 PCI Slot 1 Sun Creator3D 2 Sun Elite3D m6 2 Sun PGX64 4 Sun Expert3D Lite 3 Sun Expert3D 2 Sun XVR 500 4 Sun XVR 1000 2 Notes a Sun Elite3D graphics cards take up a UPA slot AND an adjacent PCI slot b Installing the Sun PGX64 card in the 66 MHz slot slows performance of the entire 66 MHz PCI bus to operate at 33 MHz c The Sun Expert3D and Sun Expert3D Lite cards cannot be used in the 66 MHz PCI slot 4 Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 62 Step 5 Select a country kit Required Select one country kit and one power cord kit Type 6 Country Kits USB I O Power Cord Documentation MM US Universal Canadian X3531A X311L English NTSC French X3532A X312L French Secam German X3533A X312L German PAL Swiss French
58. functionality for imaging operations Dual headed monitor capability 3D support for 24 inch displays XVR 500 Graphics Accelerator Publishing and Imaging Newspapers Magazines Image banks Advertising agencies High performance CPUs High end graphics performance and functionality for imaging operations Dual graphics monitor capability Research and Development In house development Research institutions High computing performance Feature rich Solaris Operating Environment Just the Facts amp Sun microsystems August 2002 9 Industry Key Features to Highlight Software Development CASE ISVs In house development at large organizations High performance Solaris Operating Environment A full 64 bit environment Availability of applications Multithreaded application development e PGX 64 or XVR 500 Graphcis Accelerators Visualization and Simulation Scientific visualization Technical simulation High performance CPUs tuned for high end graphics performance and functionality Sun Expert3D or Sun XVR 1000 graphics with high end texture mapping Multi monitor capability Just the Facts amp Sun microsystems August 2002 10 Selling Highlights Compatibility The Sun Blade 2000 workstations run the Solaris 8 Operating Environment They can also run 64 bit applications unmodified from the Solaris 7 Operating Envi
59. han purchasing new systems The Sun Blade 2000 workstations exceptional performance along with its ability to support four high performance monitors driving by two Sun XVR 1000 or four Sun XVR 500 graphics accelerators allows customers to provide personal visualization systems at a fraction of the cost of large visualization solutions Assemble To Order configurations offer customers a customized configuration that is configured for their needs instead of pre configured system with standard features amp Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 11 Enabling Technologies UltraSPARC III Cu Processors The Sun Blade 2000 workstations are shared memory multitasking systems built around the UltraSPARC III Cu microprocessors These processors are Sun s latest generation of the SPARC processor family and the second generation of 64 bit UltraSPARC chips The Sun Blade 2000 workstation comes with 900 MHz or 1 05 GHz versions of the UltraSPARC III Cu processor Asa member of the UItraSPARC family of CPUs full binary compatibility is provided Modules have the 64 bit SPARC V9 architecture Systems have 8 MB of Ecache per CPU Anon chip memory controller is included for reduced latency UO Interfaces The Sun Blade 2000 workstations include two advanced I O interfaces which greatly increase customers access to peripherals USB interface Universal serial bus USB support is provided for low speed d
60. heod dedit e idee iei aere ende rers 58 Sun Blade 2000 Assemble to Order ATO Options sese eene eene enne nnne etre 59 LM EA 72 Key Messages a Sun Upgrade Allowance Program Sun UA 72 Allowance Code Numbering Scheme sasmata A e E e E E E E a a i 72 Upgrade Ordering Notes sia ste labon ete Rete an alain bee iod te ae ne er EA NEA e 73 Upgrading to UltraSPARC III Cu Processor eene Eaa ennt nnne nennen nnne nns 73 Upsrade Paths meiir Doble bua v ede o eR RO EDU EE EEN 75 Service and Support Support Contracts SunSpectrum Program Support SunClient Support Program Features and Benefits of the SunClient Program ENEE 78 dri OU lyPISupl Edi ircro er PAR amp Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 4 Positioning Figure 1 Sun Blade 2000 workstations Introduction The Sun Blade 2000 workstations are Sun s UltraSPARC III processor based workstation platforms They can be configured as either single or dual processor workstations and offer the user outstanding system performance through superscalar processor technology a high performance system interconnect high bandwidth I O and accelerated graphics The Sun Blade 2000 workstations are outstanding solutions for customers who require h
61. ic RAM memory Memory is organized into two banks of four DIMMs DIMMs are added in groups of four amp Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 17 Storage Internal data storage is provided by up to two 3 5 inch FC AL disk drives The Sun Blade 2000 workstations come with up to two 73 GB drives These 10000 rpm drives offer a peak data transfer rate of 100 MB second In addition to internal and external high speed fixed storage capabilities the Sun Blade 2000 workstations provide three removable media bays that support DVD ROM 1 44 MB 3 5 inch manual eject floppy or 4 mm tape for software installation and system management Networking and UO All Sun Blade 2000 workstation models provide standard 100 Mbps Fast Ethernet which can autosense and drop to 10 Mbps operation In addition a wide range of serial I O options are supported bringing additional capabilities and higher levels of performance to desktop workstations USB interface Universal serial bus USB support is provided for low speed devices Initially devices such as the Sun Type 6 keyboard and mouse are supported along with USB hubs The Sun Blade 2000 workstations have four USB connectors on the rear panel IEEE 1394 interface IEEE 1394 also known as FireWire has emerged as a standard for medium speed devices such as digital cameras and digital video cameras IEEE 1394 interface provides an isochronous service which helps ensure latency along wi
62. igh performance and high capacity computing These workstations can expand to up to two CPUs two 73 GB Sun Blade 2000 FC AL disks 8 GB RAM and two high performance UPA graphics accelerators The generous expansion capacity in these workstations allow customers to tailor a solution directly for their needs Several graphics accelerators are available including Sun Creator3D Sun Elite3D m6 Sun Expert3D Sun Expert3D Lite Sun XVR 500 and Sun XVR 1000 graphics These graphics accelerators range from the very affordable Sun PGX64 graphics to the entry level 3D acceleration of Sun XV 500 graphics to the very high performance hardware based texture mapping acceleration of Sun XVR 1000 graphics A number of multi monitor configurations are possible The Sun Blade 2000 workstations include three industry standard interfaces that enable the use of Sun and third party peripherals These are A universal serial bus USB for low speed devices such as a keyboard and a mouse An IEEE 1394 interface for digital video use A Fibre Channel arbitrated loop FC AL interface to enable high speed disk access All Sun Blade 2000 workstations also include an external 40 MB second UItraSCSI interface and 100 Mb second Fast Ethernet The tower enclosure is designed for ease of expansion and service Memory CPU modules PCI cards disk drives and removable media peripherals are all independently accessible The Sun Blade 2000 amp Sun microsystems
63. interference analysis design Software memory scrubbing Availability Hardware software and diagnostic features that support availability include Deconfiguration of faulty memory DIMM banks Deconfiguration of faulty I O boards Thermal sensors controlling fan speed and cooling Thermal faults detected by software result in customer alerts and system shutdown to protect components e SunVTS diagnostics can run at scheduled times to periodically validate system functionality amp Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 43 Automatic reboot of the system on fatal errors amp Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 44 Serviceability Features that are designed to minimize downtime include the following Simple enclosure layout All FRUs can be accessed independently that is each FRU can be serviced without needing to remove any other FRU Minimal internal cabling Action oriented diagnostic messages indicating failed FRUs at the POST and SunVTS diagnostic levels JTAG scan support on ASICs processor module and frame buffers and EPCI connector No configuration jumpers Modular components include the motherboard disks memory DIMMs graphics options processor modules and power supply Common fasteners used throughout for easy servicing FRUs and Serviceability Details Motherboard The motherboard FRU is removed by disconnecting all cables removing daughtercards PCI frame bu
64. ion Product Line Reseller Web Overview Quick Reference Card Quick Reference Card Sales Tool SunWIN 12259 Competitive Summary Reseller Web Workstations Quick Reference Card Sun Quick Reference Card Sales Tool SunWIN 24507 Workstation Graphics Products Reseller Web Overview Presentations Graphics Overview Presentation Presentation Sales Tool SunWIN 75254 Reseller Web 75255 External Web Sites General Information on Sun s http www sun com desktop Desktop Line Detailed Information on the Sun http www sun com desktop sunbladel000 Blade 1000 Workstation Detailed Information on the Sun http www sun com desktop sunblade2000 Blade 2000 Workstation SunPCi Ipro Coprocessor Card http www sun com desktop products sunpci index html Portal Sun Store http www sun com sunstore Investment Protection Solutions http www sun com ibb Just the Facts amp Sun microsystems August 2002 82
65. its General performance improvements Improved drivers Occlusion culling test extension Additional extensions Triangle list primitive Vertex extension Global alpha extension Helps enable better performance for all supported graphics cards in particular there has been some substantial performance gains for Sun Elite3D frame buffers for some applications over 100 percent Enables applications to trivially reject occluded objects in a scene resulting in big improvements in interactive rendering performance for visualization of large models Allows multiple triangle strips or fans to be specified within a single g1Begin glEnd pair improves performance Allows applications to specify all vertex data color normal coordinates and so on in a single function call saves function call overhead Allows applications to specify an alpha component which can be applied globally to all primitives useful for cases where many vertices share the same alpha value because the application does not have to send an alpha component for each vertex Sun OpenGL for Solaris Software Tech Facts Sun OpenGL for Solaris software system requirements are shown in the following table Feature Requirements Platforms SPARC III Cu processor based systems using Sun Elite3D Sun Creator Sun Creator3D Sun Expert3D Sun Expert3D Lite Sun XVR 500 Sun XVR 1000 GZ ZX PGX PGX24
66. ivity with intuitive desktop printer PDA sync HotKey and CDE 1 4 control panel tools The StarOffice productivity suite easily handles Microsoft Office documents and creates complex documents spreadsheets and presentations Use PC Launcher and the SunPCi IIpro coprocessor card to run Windows Lotus 1 2 3 and AutoCAD applications on Sun workstations Support for IPv6 in the Solaris 8 Operating Environment is integrated into NFS RPC NIS NIS and DNS IPsec enables secure virtual private networks and network access control Mobile IP provides Internet disconnect reconnect capabilities with no data loss Includes Oracle 8i Enterprise Edition 1xrun for Linux application compatibility for Solaris on Intel Apache Webserver Netscape Communicator iPlanet Directory Server gzip bash and t csh Ships with support for a number of software components that increase overall availability including Solaris Resource Manager software for fine grained control of system resources Solaris Bandwidth Manager software for enhanced network resource availability Sun Cluster 3 0 software for greater application availability through a clustered file system scalable data services and built in load balancing Provides workstation users with an easy to use open secure platform CDE features streaming video using MPEG1 MPEG2 Quicktime and AVI formats as well as MIDI audio using the Java Media Framework Personal Digital Assistant PDA s
67. m FC AL internal disk Sun XVR 1000 graphics 10 100 Mbit Ethernet IEEE 1394 USB Solaris 8 2 02 Operating Environment preinstalled A29 PT2 9C 1GMAJN Random Non Standard Configuration Sun Blade 2000 workstation with two 1 05 GHz UItraSPARC III Cu processors with 8 MB cache each 1 GB memory differentiated DIMMS one 73 GB 10000 rpm FC AL internal disk Sun PGX64 graphics 13W3 adapater cable included 10 100 Mbit Ethernet IEEE 1394 USB Solaris 8 2 02 Operating Environment preinstalled This configuration is not compliant with Energy Star requirements A29 UT2 9Z 8GAJP Limited Edition Promo Sun Blade 2000 20 Year Celebration Edition available through October 2002 Sun Blade 2000 workstation with two 1 05 GHz UltraSPARC III Cu processors with 8 MB cache each 8 GB memory two 73 GB 10000 rpm FC AL internal disks DVD ROM drive one Sun XVR 1000 graphics accelerator 10 100 Mbit Ethernet IEEE 1394 USB Solaris 8 2 02 Operating Environment preinstalled with a SunPCi IIpro coprocessor card and 1394 Vis Kit This configuration is not compliant with Energy Star requirements Note All Sun Blade 2000 standard and random configurations using 900 MHzUItraSPASRC III Cu CPUs fully comply with Energy Star regulations Modifying any of these configuration by adding any available Sun or third party option may render the configuration non compliant Ordering Guidelines and Notes Discontinuation of Sun Blade 1000 con
68. mapping performance of Sun Elite3D m3 graphics at a much lower price Sun Expert3D Lite graphics is a single full length 64 bit PCI board It is a 66 MHz card and operates at 66 MHz when plugged into a 66 MHz capable slot and at 33 MHz when plugged into a 33 MHZz slot amp Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 27 Key Features and Benefits Features Benefits High performance 3D graphics and texture Aggressive price performance allows users to mapping performance at an affordable capitalize on 3D application functionality in a cost entry level cost provides great geometry effective manner performance of up to 4 million tris sec with up to 88 Mpixels sec of texture fill rate e High resolution 24 bit 3D double buffering Supports 24 bit 2D and 3D graphics on all of Sun s with 32 bit Z buffer up to 1920 x 1080 displays including the 24 inch color monitor With HDTV 16 9 aspect ratio resolution the 24 inch monitor users can display many applications windows with little or no overlap Hardware accelerated texture mapping with Provides high performance for texture mapping 16 MB of dedicated on board texture operations nn i Large texture storage accelerates complex 2D and 3D texturing No trade offs between resolution support and texture storage capabilities Stereoscopic graphics support at 960 x 680 Allows customers to use stereoscopic viewing for 1152 x 900 and 1280 x 800 resolutions imme
69. mise economy The very high levels of integration achieved with Sun workstations through the use of application specific integrated circuits ASICs have resulted in a greatly reduced part count high reliability and low cost without compromising access to a full complement of expansion options through high performance standardized interfaces An architectural block diagram of the Sun Blade 2000 workstation board is shown in the figure below UltraSPARC III CPU optional 1 beeper reer eae Perr r ri Combised Processor Memory Switch CPMS Data 72 bili Data 575 bits 33 MHz 64 bii Frame Butters PCI Slats 3 2 Dor 2 l 6E MHz 64 bit EBus PCI Slat 1 Audio Diskette Orve Parallel Port Serial Ports 10 4008 ASE T pallet USB o ep Fibre Channel SRAM PROM BaontH M IEEE 1334 Figure 2 Architecture of the Sun Blade 1000 and 2000 system The Sun Blade 2000 workstations are designed for balanced system performance accelerating applications at every step Faster I O and networking together with the Sun Fireplane interconnect allow fast data fetching This interconnect is based on a packet switched crossbar architecture The Sun Blade 2000 workstations have nine buffered crossbar switched processors that allow the memory and the graphics to interconnect This architecture provides supercomputing power and moves data through the interconnect at high speed amp
70. n option X6898A X7009A and allowance SunWIN 108142 1 05 Ghz UltraSPARC III Cu X7017A 750 MHz 900 MHz Same as above A 750 MHz CPU UltraSPARC III UltraSPARC III Cu option X6990A X7009A and 1 05 Ghz UltraSPARC III Cu X7017A 900 MHz 900 MHz Same as above A 900 MHz CPU UltraSPARC III UltraSPARC III Cu option X7000A X7009A and 1 05 Ghz UltraSPARC III Cu X7017A Memory 512 MB 4x 128 MB 1 GB 4 x 256 MB See Component Migration and 512 MB 4 x Increasing DIMMs X7050A DIMMs X7061A Allowance Matrix for trade in 128 MB DIMMs Density 2x allowance SunWIN 108142 X7050A 1 GB 4 x 256 MB 2 GB 4 x 512 MB Same as above 1 GB 4 x 256 MB DIMMs X7053A DIMMs X7062A DIMMs X7053A 2 GB 4 x 512 MB 4 GB 4 x 1 GB Same as above 2 GB 4 x 512 MB DIMMs X7051A DIMMs X7052A DIMMs X7051A Memory 512 MB 4 x 128 MB 2 GB 4 x 512 MB Same as above 512 MB 4x Increasing DIMMs X7050A DIMMs X7062A 128 MB DIMMs Density 4x X7050A 1 GB 4x 256 MB 4 GB 4x 1 GB Same as above 1 GB 4x 256 MB DIMMs X7053A DIMMs X7052A DIMMs X7053A Y es e Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 75 Note For graphics cards and disk upgrades see Component Migration and Allowance Matrix for trade in allowance Refer to SunWIN 108142 or go to any of the following URLs Sun Price Book Configuration Guide Desktop System Migration and Allowance Matrix on SunWIN 94726 Component Migration and Allowance Matrix on SunWIN 108142 Internal URL htt
71. n Elite3D m6 Sun XVR 1000 All Sun monitors since 1996 including 17 21 and 24 inch color monitors 18 inch flat panel 24 inch flat panel Sun 1394 Visual Collaboration Kit Networking Ports 10 100BASE T autosensing Fast Ethernet Internal Storage Disks Three front access removable media bays e One 5 25 x 1 6 inch One 3 5 x 1 0 inch One bay that accommodates a device of either size Up to two 10000 rpm FC AL disks 36 GB disks standard 73 GB disks optional Up to two 73 GB 10000 rpm FC AL disks standard total maximum 146 GB 1 4 MB triple density manual eject floppy 4 mm tape drive opt 10X DVD ROM opt Smart card reader standard 1 4 MB triple density manual eject floppy 4 mm tape drive opt 10X DVD ROM opt Smart card reader standard External Storage e Tape optical e Disk via FC AL interface Automated tape products Sun StorEdge UniPack and MultiPack systems FC AL MultiPack Solaris Operating Environment Support For UItraSPARC III modules Solaris 8 2 02 or later Solaris 8 10 00 plus patches For UItraSPARC III Cu modules Solaris 8 10 01 or later Input Devices USB keyboard USB mouse Microphone Sun Type 6 USB interface Third party USB keyboards are not supported Opto mechanical 3 button SunMicrophone II Just the Facts amp Sun microsystems August 2002 39 Environment Requirements and
72. n PGX64 Graphics Just the Reference Guide Training SunWIN 301866 Facts Sales Tool Reseller Web Sun Expert3D Graphics Reference Guide Training SunWIN 114214 Just the Facts Sales Tool Reseller Web Sun Expert3D Lite Graphics Reference Guide Training SunWIN 125033 Just the Facts Sales Tool Reseller Web Sun Elite3D Graphics Reference Guide Training SunWIN 75245 Just the Facts Sales Tool Reseller Web Sun XVR 500 Graphics Reference Guide Training SunWIN 343613 Accelerator Just the Facts Sales Tool Reseller Web Sun XVR 500 Graphics Sales Tool SunWIN 343614 Accelerator Data Sheet COMAC S es e SUN microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 81 Token or Collateral Description Purpose Distribution COMAC Order Sun XVR 1000 Graphics Reference Guide Training SunWIN 335930 Accelerator Just the Facts Sales Tool Reseller Web Sun XVR 1000 Graphics Technical Brief Training SunWIN 335932 Accelerator Technical White Sales Tool Reseller Web Paper Sun Elite3D Graphics White Technical Brief Training SunWIN 75265 Paper Sales Tool Reseller Web SunPCi IIpro Coprocessor Card Reference Guide Training SunWIN 92629 Just the Facts Sales Tool Reseller Web SunPCi lIlpro Coprocessor Card Data Sheet Training Sales SunWIN 123626 Data Sheet Tool Reseller Web COMAC DE1243 1 Quick Reference Cards Quick Reference Card Sun Quick Reference Card Sales Tool SunWIN 10826 Workstat
73. n on Solaris 8 Operating Environment without modification Less downtime more productivity and faster project completion Higher performance capacity and precision on 64 bit SPARC processor based systems and Intel systems with 32 bit binary compatibility Compliant with UNIX 98 and Aspen Group LP64 standards Quickly develop and certify 64 bit applications for SPARC and IA 64 processors using Solaris Operating Environment APIs 64 bit C C and FORTRAN compilers and ABI certification tools Provides a high performance scalable Java virtual machine Offers improved memory management optimized JIT compiler and faster Java thread synchronization Helps increase addressing range provides better authentication and privacy and enables additional quality of service capabilities Mobile IP permits intermittent connection to the Internet with no data loss Helps increase compute resources as a customer s needs grow Expand to four processors on the desktop or use up to 64 processors per server with up to eight servers per cluster High speed enterprise class directory service using the Solaris 8 Operating Environment LDAP client and the iPlanet Directory Server supports complex data intensive network applications Includes Microsoft Active Directory support Helps reduce the time spent on system administration duties using Web based wizards and Java technology powered graphical interfaces amp Sun microsystems August
74. nc is also provided through the connector Graphics Comparison Summary The two tables below provide a feature comparison for Sun s graphics boards Just the Facts amp Sun microsystems August 2002 34 Feature Sun PGX64 Sun Creator3D Sun Elite3D m6 Bus PCI UPA UPA 32 bit 33 MHz 64 bit 66 MHz Max 2D resolution 1920 x 1200 1920 x 1200 1280 x 1024 Max 3D resolution 1280 x 1024 1280 x 1024 Stereo resolution not supported 960 x 680 9112 Hz 960 x 680 9108 112 Hz Memory type SGRAM 3D RAM 3D RAM Frame buffer memory 8 MB 15 MB 15 MB On board texture System memory 16 x 16 texel cache memory Geometry performance 1 5M 5 9M tris sec Texture fill rate Host bound 56M pix sec APIs supported OpenGL XGL XIL Xlib Java 3D software interfaces Feature Sun Expert3D Sun Expert3D Lite Sun XVR 500 Sun XVR 1000 Bus PCI PCI PCI UPA 64 bit 66 MHz 64 bit 66 MHz 32 64 bit and 33 66 MHz Max 2D 1920 x 1200 1920 x 1080 1920 x 1080 1920 x 1200 resolution Max 3D 1920 x 1200 1920 x 1080 1920 x 1080 1920 x 1200 resolution Stereo 1280 x 1024 112 Hz 1280 x 800 112 Hz 1152 x 900 120 Hz 1280 x 1024 resolation 960 x 680 108 112 Hz 1152x900 120 Hz 1280 x 800 112 Hz 96 112 Hz 960 x 680 108 112 Hz 1280 x 800 112 Hz 1152 x 900 120 Hz 960 x 680 108 112 Hz Memory type SDRAM SDRAM SDRAM DRDRAM Frame buf
75. ng Environment Solaris 8 Update 2 02 or later System Administration Sun Blade 2000 workstations deliver the power and graphics needed by the customers who use heavy compute intensive applications Customers who run these compute intensive applications require a system like the Solaris Operating Environment that can provide a highly reliable available fast and safe desktop computing environment Built into the Solaris Operating Environment are systems management and security features that help deliver the computing environment demanded by these customers Sun also offers unbundled systems management products that supplements the systems management features in the Solaris 8 Operating Environment Together the Solaris Operating Environment management features and Sun s unbundled systems management products create one the most stable and available desktop computing environment in the industry amp Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 46 Solstice AdminTools Software Solstice AdminTools software is a set of GUI based administration tools that have been shipping since the Solaris 2 2 Operating Environment release and can be used to provide local systems administration Solstice AdminTools software can be used to manage user accounts groups hosts printers serial ports and installation removal of software SunVTS Software The SunVTS system exerciser is a graphically oriented UNIX application that permits the contin
76. on Photos with active callouts link to more detailed photos and text based reference information The Solaris 8 Operating Environment Sun Blade 2000 systems require the 2 02 version of the Solaris Operating Environment Solaris 8 Update 7 or later The Solaris 8 Operating Environment is the latest release of one of the industry s leading enterprise operating environments The Solaris 8 Operating Environment contains the complete functionality required for all supported Sun Workstation systems The Solaris 8 Operating Environment is a solid scalable 64 bit operating environment that also supports 32 bit applications The Solaris 8 Operating Environment includes Reliable Internet ready operating environment for 32 and 64 bit SPARC processor based platforms and Intel platforms Enhanced ease of use and PC interoperability features Integrated high performance Java technology and tools Robust software developer environment Advanced standards based networking mproved systems installation and management tools Enterprise class directory services Enhanced desktop tools I O standards and security The Solaris Operating Environment delivers a competitive advantage to businesses through networked computing scalability and multiarchitecture support The Solaris Operating Environment provides an advanced superior solution for all customer IT needs both technical and business With its strength in enterprise cla
77. on SunSpectrum Platinum Support failure prevention rapid recovery and year round technical services planning Support is provided 24 x 7 Business Critical Includes a complete package of proactive and responsive services for SunSpectrum Gold Support customers who require maximum uptime for their strategic business critical systems Support is provided 24 x 7 System Coverage Combines the service expertise responsive on site support and technical SunSpectrum Silver Support support by telephone and SunSolve CD on line services Support is provided 8 a m to 8 p m Mon through Fri Self Directed Provided for customers who rely primarily upon their own in house service SunSpectrum Bronze Support capabilities Enables customers to deliver high quality service by giving them access to UNIX expertise Sun certified replacement parts software releases and technical tools Support is provided 8 a m to 5 p m Mon through Fri SunClient Support Program The SunClient support program is a suite of offerings that is separate yet complementary to the SunSpectrum program This program helps reduce hardware and software support costs for the Sun Blade 2000 workstations SunClient support program provides A choice for optimizing low cost workstation support amp Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 77 Flexibility to select only the services needed Administrative simplicity saving
78. p ibb eng upgrades External URL http www sun com ibb upgrades Partner CDPs URL http partner sun com ibb upgrades amp Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 76 Service and Support The SunSpectrum program is an innovative and flexible service offering that allows customers to choose the level of service best suited to their needs ranging from mission critical support for maximum solution availability to backup assistance for self support customers The SunSpectrum program provides a simple pricing structure in which a single fee covers support for an entire system including related hardware and peripherals the Solaris Operating Environment software and telephone support for Sun software packages The majority of Sun s customers today take advantage of the SunSpectrum program underscoring the value that it represents Customers should check with their local Sun Enterprise Services representatives for program and feature availability in their areas Support Contracts SunSpectrum program support contracts are available both during and after the warranty program Customers may choose to uplift the service and support agreement to meet their business needs by purchasing a SunSpectrum contract The four levels of SunSpectrum support contracts are outlined below SunSpectrum Program Support Program Description Mission Critical Designed to support client server mission critical solutions by focusing
79. ported Graphics The Sun Blade 1000 recently EOLed and 2000 workstations provide access to Sun s most popular and most powerful graphics accelerators The table below shows the graphics systems supported on these workstations Graphics Accelerator Sun Blade 1000 Sun Blade 2000 Max Number Workstation Workstation Supported Sun PGX64 graphics Standard configuration Standard configuration 4 Sun Creator3D series 3 graphics Option Option 2 Sun Elite3D m6 graphics Option Option 2 Sun Expert3D graphics Option Option 2 Sun Expert3D Lite graphics Standard configuration Option 3 Sun XVR 500 graphics Option Random configuration 4 Sun XVR 1000 graphics Option Random configuration 2 Sun s existing graphics product lines maintain binary compatibility with all other Sun graphics products The following sections describe these graphics accelerators in more detail Note Sun Creator3D series 3 graphics and Sun Elite3D m6 graphics accelerators have been EOLed The Last Order Date for both EOLed graphics accelerators is September 6 2002 and the Last Ship Date for both is December 6 2002 Sun PGX64 Graphics Sun PGX64 graphics is the low cost PCI graphics product in the PGX family It is the PGX32 graphics successor Sun PGX64 graphics provides Sun with a very low cost flexible 24 bit 2D graphics board supporting the widest range of Sun systems and supporting up to four boards in systems that can
80. r timing includes the Solaris 8 Operating Environment and OpenGL 1 2 1 performance data collected in January 2002 Performance data is subject to change See Sun s web site at http www sun com desktop for latest performance numbers Metrics defined 2D vectors are 10 pixels long X11 perf numbers 3D vectors are 10 pixels long depth cued clip tested perspective projection solid line through the OpenGL API 3D triangles 25 pixel triangle mesh one light source 3D quads 100 pixel independent quadrilaterals with one directional light source Both 3D mesh and quads are Gouraud shaded randomly oriented transformed clip tested with perspective projection and Z buffered via the OpenGL API Special Features Accelerated imaging and advanced 3D graphics with Gouraud shading line antialiasing per pixel depth cueing subpixel addressing transparency and stereo viewing with monitor e Sun Elite3D m6 graphics utilize a connector for stereo viewing synchronization a 7 pin mini DIN style of connector StereoGraphics Corporations sells a cable adapter for connecting the old and new styles of connectors It can be ordered from them using the part number ESUN amp Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 37 System Configuration Cache on chip External cache Sun Fireplane system interconnect speed UPA 64 KB D cache 32 KB I cache 8 MB 150 MHz Two 120 MHz graphics slots Fe
81. rage needed for desktop systems so service dollars are targeted where they are needed most Cost savings Pay only for the support services needed amp Sun microsystems August 2002 78 Features Next business day SunClient Maintenance or second business day SunClient Central Maintenance on site response Single contract with choice of automatic warranty upgrade SunClient Central Maintenance Service delivery by Sun experts Benefits Cost efficiency Because Sun can more efficiently manage spare inventory and labor scheduling the savings can be passed on to the customer Simplicity One contract covers a predefined number of systems at one low price Additional systems acquired can be upgraded to the SunClient service level Cost savings Sun realizes an economy of scale by repairing multiple systems with one visit and leverages existing support infrastructures so cost efficiency is maximized while duplication of effort is virtually eliminated Consistency Selected desktops can be deployed virtually anywhere with enabling cost effective quality service and support For more information visit the SunClient support web site at http www sun com service support sunclient Just the Facts amp Sun microsystems August 2002 79 Glossary 24 bit color 3D RAM 100BASE T Antialiasing DIMM Fast Ethernet NFS ODBC OpenGL PCI UPA V9 V
82. ray 12 x 18 2 GB 10000 rpm disks 436 GB Sun StorEdge A1000 rackmount array 12 x 36 4 GB 10000 rpm disks 36 GB Sun StorEdge A1000 tabletop array 4 x 9 1 GB 10000 rpm disks 109 GB Sun StorEdge A1000 tabletop array 12 x 9 1 GB 10000 rpm disks 36 GB Sun StorEdge A1000 rackmountable array 4 x 9 1 GB 10000 rpm disks 218 GB Sun StorEdge A1000 tabletop array 12 x 18 2 GB 10000 rpm disks 291 GB Sun StorEdge A1000 tabletop array 8 x 36 4 GB 10000 rpm disks One array can be connect to each channel of the X6541A controller card or three Sun StorEdge A1000 arrays daisy chained per channel Mass Storage Sun StorEdge D1000 Arrays SG XARY153A 72G SG XARY172A 145G SG XARY153A 218G SG XARY172A 436G SG XARY154A 72G SG XARY173A 145G SG XARY154A 218G 72 GB Sun StorEdge D1000 tabletop array 4 x 18 GB 10000 rpm disks 145 GB Sun StorEdge D1000 tabletop array 4 x 36 4 GB 10000 rpm disks 218 GB Sun StorEdge D1000 tabletop array 12 x 18 2 GB 10000 rpm disks 436 GB Sun StorEdge D1000 tabletop array 12 x 36 4 GB 10000 rpm disks 72 GB Sun StorEdge D1000 rackmountable array 4 x 18 GB 10000 rpm disks 145 GB Sun StorEdge D1000 rackmountable array 4 x 36 4 GB 10000 rpm disks 218 GB Sun StorEdge D1000 rackmount array 12 x 18 2 GB 10000 rpm disks System accepts max one array per X6541A controller card Sun StorEdge D1000 arrays cannot be daisy chained S
83. ray Decree Environmental Enhanced Energy Star certain configurations Network aware in low power mode Monitors and Keyboards TCO95 Power Sun Blade 2000 configurations except configurations using 1 05 Ghz UltraSPARC III Cu procecssors are compliant with Energy Star specifications under the Solaris 8 Operating Environment and meet EPA guidelines without check pointing and restoring the system An innovative approach to power management enables Sun Blade 2000 workstations to remain network aware even in low power mode Note All Sun Blade 2000 standard and random configurations except configurations using 1 05 GHz UltraSPARC III Cu processors fully meet Energy Star compliance requirements Modifying any of these configuration by adding any available Sun or third party option may render the configuration non compliant Feature Specifications AC power 100 to 240 VAC 47 to 63 Hz 0 8 KVA Power supply output 670 Watts max Power control Front panel on off switch Advanced Power Management Sun Blade 2000 workstations come equipped with a single 670 Watt power supply providing all the power needed for internal expansion options With Sun Blade 2000 workstations Sun has gone beyond the need for environmentally sensitive construction and provides an innovative approach to compliance amp Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 41 with EPA Energy Star specifications when running the
84. re UltraSPARC III UltraSPARC III Cu Speeds Available 750 900 MHz 900 MHz 1 05 GHz Can mix processor speeds Yes No Solaris Operating Environment Solaris 8 10 00 or newer Solaris 8 2 02 or newer Support recommended OBP Revision 4 X or newer 4 5 X or newer Prefetch Settings off on On chip SRAM protection no ECC parity amp Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 15 Feature UltraSPARC III UltraSPARC III Cu SPECint2000 peak 396 466 533 610 SPECfp2000 peak 395 410 731 817 Notes The UltraSPARC III benchmarks were performed with the Forte Developer 6 update 1 compiler on the Solaris 8 10 00 Operating Environment The UltraSPARC III Cu benchmarks were performed with Forte Developer 7 EA compiler and the Solaris 8 2 02 Operating Environment Note that UltraSPARC III Cu modules cannot be mixed with the UltraSPARC III modules The 2 02 version of the Solaris Operating Environment is required for Sun Blade 1000 systems prior to installing the UltraSPARC III Cu module upgrades Additional improvements were made to the UltraSPARC III Cu processor to enhance performance A number of changes to the array parity protections were made The Ecache initialization process was streamlined The processor clock and the Ecache modes were modified to support higher clock frequencies Just the Facts amp Sun microsystems August 2002 16 Sun Fireplane Interconnect In r
85. red with two 1 05 GHz UItraSPARC III Cu processors 8 GB of memory and the newly announced Sun XVR 1000 Sun Blade Workstation Product Line Placement Sun Blade workstations and their predecessors the Ultra systems have several things in common including The SPARC processor 100 percent binary compatibility throughout Sun s product line Modularity easy to swap components The table below shows a feature comparison between the three Sun Blade workstations Feature Sun Blade 150 Sun Blade 1000 Sun Blade 2000 Placement Economy Workstation Value Workstation Performance Workstation CPU One UltraSPARC IIi Up to two Up to two with 512 KB L2 cache UItraSPARC III UItraSPARC III Cu UItraSPARC III Cu as with 8 MB L2 cache X option only with 8 MB L2 cache Processor Speeds 550 650 MHz 750 MHz 900 MHz 900 MHz 1 05 GHz Memory Capacity 2 GB 8GB Drive Capacity Up to two 40 GB Up to two 36 GB standard Up to two 73 GB standard 73 GB optional Drive Type EIDE Fibre Channel amp Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 6 Feature Sun Blade 150 Sun Blade 1000 Sun Blade 2000 Graphics Sun PGX64 Sun PGX64 Supported Sun XVR 500 Sun Creator3D Sun Elite3D Sun Expert3D Lite Sun Expert3D Sun Expert3D Lite Sun XVR 500 Sun X VR 1000 Solaris Operating Solaris 8 2 02 or newer Solaris 8 10 00 or Solaris 8 2 02 or newer Environment newer recommended Support Solaris 8 10
86. rent licensing details Some features of the Solaris Operating Environment license include the following Nolonger a distinction between desktop and server licenses Free binary runtime license for all systems of 8 or fewer CPUs for customers who accept the terms of the Solaris 8 Binary Code License and the free Solaris Binary License Program Solaris 8 Operating Environment software is provided via the Solaris 8 Media Kit available for purchase on line at http www sun com solaris binaries Single Solaris Media Kit can be used to install multiple systems Solaris Media Kit contains additional bundled software Solaris Supplemental CD of bundled user and system management tools Oracle 8i Enterprise Edition with development license StarOffice 5 2 productivity suite Solaris Software Companion CD of popular freeware iPlanet Advantage Software with development licenses Sun OpenGL for Solaris 1 2 3 Software Sun OpenGL for Solaris 1 2 3 software provides a powerful programming environment for developing and deploying interactive 3D applications on SPARC processor workstations It allows mainstream 3D graphics and visualization applications to be deployed on Sun s Ultra family of graphics workstations at a compelling price to performance ratio amp Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 54 Sun OpenGL for Solaris software is an application programming interface API that provides 2D and 3D graphics
87. ronment as well as 32 bit applications from previous versions of the Solaris Operating Environment making these systems compatible with previous systems and software Sun Blade 2000 systems require the Solaris 8 2 02 version of the Solaris Operating Environment or later Market Value Propositions Sun re emphasizes its position with leading edge compute performance and high end 3D visualization capabilities with the best price performance available in the 64 bit workstation marketplace Due to the exceptional application and graphics performance customers in manufacturing who use graphics and compute intensive applications to visualize large data sets will see a marked increase in their productivity level The workstation will help enable customers to more accurately view their datasets make better decisions based on what they see and reduce errors and manufacturing cycle times By utilizing the Sun Blade 2000 workstation s exceptional dual processing compute performance and large 8 GMB memory capacity in addition to Sun Grid Engine software customers in electronic design automation and MCAE environments who work with complex compute intensive and visually intensive applications should see a marked increase in their productivity Because of Sun s continued focus on investment protection Sun customers can realize significant cost savings by upgrading adding to their Sun Blade 2000 workstation to newer processors and components rather t
88. rsive applications which enhances data comprehension Support for up to four Sun Enables applications to take advantage of more Expert3D Lite boards in a single system screen real estate depending on system e 32 bit Z buffer at all supported resolutions Provides high level of three dimensional accuracy helping to eliminate anomalies such as the flickering of objects when moving around a 3D image Full acceleration support of Sun OpenGL Applications automatically receive performance for Solaris and Java 3D APIs benefits of these APIs Single application binary for Sun graphics options Sun Expert3D Lite Graphics Specifications On board geometry accelerator ASIC performs transform clipping and lighting On board rasterization ASIC performs 2D 3D rasterization 2D 3D texturing pixel transfers imaging and fragment processing High resolution DAC with 10 bit RGB analog video at dot rates up to 350 MHz Memory 8 MB direct burst memory 16 MB dedicated texture memory amp Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 28 32 MB dedicated frame buffer memory Standard HD15 video connector with support for Composite and Separate sync provides support for a DDC link for monitor query and control VESA Standard 3 pin mini DIN stereo connector amp Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 29 Display Resolutions Sun Expert3D Lite graphics supports the following resolutions
89. s The Sun Blade 2000 workstations run the same applications that run throughout Sun workstation and server product lines Binary compatibility continues to be of the most important ways that Sun protects its customers investments Availability The Sun Blade 2000 workstations with 900 MHz UItraSPARC III Cu processors or the high performance 1 05 GHz processors are currently available Sun Blade 1000 workstaitons have been EOLed Last Order Date 06 30 2002 Last Ship Date 11 08 2002 Target Users The target customer is the user who requires maximum computer resources CPU memory and disk capability in a deskside system In particular the Sun Blade 2000 systems are excellent workstations for users who run applications that require extremely high floating point performance or who need high performance graphics for visualization applications Target Markets Designed for the power user who requires high performance multiprocessing capability high end graphics and large amounts of expansion capacity the Sun Blade 2000 workstations meet the needs of users in a number of disciplines Primary market areas are Electronic design automation EDA Mechanical design MCAD MCAE Earth resources GIS oil and gas Visualization and simulation Research and development amp Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 8 Secondary markets are Defense government Financial modeling Medical imaging With
90. s become available More standard functionality All Sun Creator graphics products come standard with high resolution and 24 bit true color as well as an 8 bit overlay plane Sun Creator3D graphics supports 24 bit double buffering and a 28 bit Z buffer In addition stereo output support is built in Sun Creator graphics established a new standard for workstation graphics functionality Sun Creator3D graphics series 3 also adds support for high resolution monitors up to 1920 x 1200 and hardware acceleration of color space conversion during video playback Four 6 bit color maps for dynamic color map segment allocation within the 8 bit color overlay plane and support for adjustable gamma correction give applications greater access to colors even in 8 bit mode and give the user the ability to color adjust gamma correct for optimal display quality Fully compatible with existing APIs Sun Creator graphics accelerates existing APIs including OpenGL X11 XIL and XGL graphics libraries Sun Elite3D Graphics Overview Note Sun Elite3D m6 graphics accelerator has been EOLed The Last Order Date for the Eoled graphics accelerator is September 6 2002 and the Last Ship Date for is December 6 2002 amp Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 22 Video Output Figure 3 Sun Elite3D m6 graphics chip level diagram Sun Elite3D graphics greatly accelerates the rendering of 3D triangles vectors and texture maps over what
91. s supports 64 bit 66 MHz 64 bit 33 MHz or 32 bit 33 MHz PCI slots in all PCI based Sun workstations and servers Specific support for the Sun Blade workstations is shown in the following table Display Resolution M coo E Sync Standard Aspect Ratio Dod 1920 x 1200 70 Hz Sun 16 10 8 bit 1920 x 1080 72 Hz Sun 16 9 24 bit 1600 x 1280 76 Hz Sun 5 4 24 bit 1600 x 1200 75 Hz VESA 4 3 8 bit 1600 x 1000 66 76 Hz Sun 16 10 24 bit 1440 x 900 76 Hz Sun 16 10 24 bit 1280 x 1024 60 75 85 Hz VESA 5 4 24 bit 1280 x 1024 67 76 Hz Sun 5 4 24 bit 1280 x 800 76 Hz Sun 16 10 24 bit 1152 x 900 66 76 Hz Sun 5 4 24 bit 1152 x 864 75 Hz VESA 4 3 24 bit 1024 x 768 60 70 75 85 Hz VESA 4 3 24 bit 800 x 600 56 60 72 75 85 Hz VESA 4 3 24 bit 720 x 400 85 Hz VESA 9 5 24 bit 640 x 480 60 72 75 85 Hz VESA 4 3 24 bit Note 8 bit color support is via emulation in 24 bit window Sun PGX64 graphics outputs separate sync Number Standard X ontion Ne Num l fi Supported if System onim option o bod per Slot Configuration UPA Graphics ystem also Configured Sun Blade 150 pin Yes 3 NA NA 1 in 66 MHz slots Sun Blade 2000 Yes Yes 4 3 in 33 MHz slots lor2 S 5 SUN microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 20 On the Sun Blade 2000 systems the Sun PGX64 graphics board cannot be installed if there is a double wide UPA frame buffer Sun Elite3D m6 graphics installed in the adjacent UPA slot And while the Sun Blade 2000
92. sktop matrix which includes the allowances from one of the URLs noted above Select the platform the customer is upgrading from Choose the allowance code that pertains to the platform the customer is upgrading to Subtract the allowance percentage from the list price of the configuration Note The trade in allowance is in addition to any contracted discounts that the customer may be eligible for Contracted discounts should also be taken off the LIST PRICE Upgrade Ordering Notes The following lists what can and cannot migrate from UltraSPARC II systems to the Sun Blade 2000 product family Memory internal disks and controllers do not migrate CPU modules from Ultra workstations do not migrate Sun PGX64 Sun Creator3D and Sun Elite3D m6 graphics cards do migrate Selected SCSI arrays and PCI cards migrate See Options sections for details Monitors Monitors are not included with any Sun Blade system upgrades Sun branded 17 inch and 20 inch monitors migrate from previous generation Sun systems Upgrade trade ins are available for Non Sun competitive monitors Country kits do not migrate Type 4 and Type 5 keyboards are not supported on the Sun Blade 2000 workstations Only USB keyboards are supported Upgrading to UItraSPARC III Cu Processor Sun Blade 1000 2000 workstation customers can upgrade the system s processors to the 900 MHz UltraSPARC III Cu processors X option 7009A or the 1 05 GHz UltraSPA
93. ss reliability scalability and performance the Solaris Operating Environment is an industrial grade solution with the quality and robustness required to deliver mission critical computing Note Jn order to upgrade to the UltraSPARC III Cu module from Sun Blade 1000 systems the customer must first upgrade to the 10 01 version of the Solaris Operating Environment Solaris 8 Update 6 or later Features and Benefits The Solaris 8 Operating Environment continues the tradition of reliability availability and scalability RAS of the earlier operating environment releases including features IPv6 IPsec Mobile IP realtime application support filesystem logging and remote console Existing applications that adhere to the Solaris application binary interface ABI runs unmodified with Solaris 8 software on both SPARC processor based platforms and Intel platforms In addition Sun amp Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 48 provides an easy to use AppCert testing tool for developers so they can verify existing Solaris application binaries and report on any potential incompatibilities Features Desktop management and productivity tools Advanced networking features Bundled software Enhancements to the Common Desktop Environment CDE mproved system error messages system debugging capabilities and remote console capability File system logging Just the Facts Benefits Helps increase product
94. t3D Lite provides texture mapping acceleration at a bargain price It is Sun s best price performance graphics option Sun Creator3D graphics is Sun s low end 3D graphics option Sun XVR 500 graphics accelerator is a mid range graphics option that allows customers with small medium and large datasets to choose the system to meet their demanding application needs This board provides support for multiple frame buffers in a single system up to four are supported to support up to four synchronized displays amp Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 7 Sun XVR 1000 graphics is an ideal solution for customers who need the highest possible workstation image quality for personal visualization applications Each card drives two monitors and up to two graphics cards are supported in each system The Sun Blade workstations continue to be the industry leaders in networking connectivity and T O performance and versatility ratings 100 Mbps Fast Ethernet through twisted pair is a standard feature on all Sun Blade 2000 workstations but the system also maintains connectivity with 10 Mbps networking technology through an autosensing speed switch feature Advanced networking options include FDDI and additional Fast Ethernet ports through industry standard PCI option cards The Sun Blade workstations come with USB and IEEE 1394 FireWire ports to support the newer peripherals that come with these I O interface
95. tal solution serving the technical and professional workstation market The Sun XVR 500 graphics accelerator also provides 3D graphics for powerful servers such as the Sun Fire V880 server The Sun XVR 500 graphics outperforms previous Sun graphics accelerators such as the Sun Creator3D and Sun Elite3D graphics for most MCAD MCAE applications It outperforms Sun Expert3D Lite graphics by up to twice the geometry performance and in geometry applications outperforms Sun Expert3D graphics by up to 33 percent Just the Facts amp Sun microsystems August 2002 30 The Sun XVR 500 graphics accelerator offers state of the art handling of color and gamma correction and advanced 3D functionality including hardware accelerated texture mapping with on board texture memory The Sun XVR 500 graphics accelerator supports monitor refresh rates of up to 112 Hz and provides double buffered Z buffered support for 3D graphics up to 1920 x 1080 with support for stereoscopic 3D up to 1280 x 800 Feature Sun XVR 500 Graphics 32 MB 16 MB 1920 x 1080 72 Hz 1920 x 1080 72 Hz 1152 x 900 120 Hz 1280 x 800 112 Hz Frame Buffer Memory Texture Memory Max 2D Resolution Max 3D Resolution Max 3D Stereo Resolution Key Features The Sun XVR 500 graphics accelerator like Sun Expert3D graphics is a 64 bit board and is supported in both the 33 MHz and 66 MHz PCI bus slots It provides the following advanced features
96. th providing the needed 400 Mbps bandwidth for transferring large images and other multimedia data The Sun Blade 2000 workstations have two IEEE 1394 connectors on the rear panel Fiber Channel arbitrated loop FC AL Sun has been an early and aggressive adopter of Fiber Channel arbitrated loop FC AL technology in its higher end systems and disk array technology The Sun Blade 2000 workstations continued the precedent set by the recently eoled SunBlade 1000 workstations of this exciting high bandwidth 1 Gbit second technology in desktop systems offering considerable performance advantage and deployment flexibility over slower UltraSCSI Only FC AL disk drives are supported for internal storage in Sun Blade 2000 workstations SCSI Sun Blade 2000 workstations still support 40 MB second UltraSCSI Fast 20 for support of internal removable media devices and legacy external SCSI devices UltraSCSI is completely compatible with earlier fast 10 MB second and standard 8 bit 5 MB second SCSI peripherals A standard external 68 pin connector is provided Terminal modem interface Two serial ports are provided both supporting synchronous communication The maximum baud rate is 384 Kbaud synchronous and 460 8 Kbaud asynch Both RS232 and RS423 standards are supported via a software setting The default configuration is RS423 Connection is via two DB25 standard connectors amp Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 18 Sup
97. the Sun Expert3D graphics card the Sun Blade 2000 workstations can perform complex DCC operations for visual simulation applications and texture memory operations for intense graphics use Its two way CPU capability is ideal for financial services applications that perform simultaneous financial simulations and trading activities Industry Key Features to Highlight Digital Content Creation DCC 8 GB RAM to support large data sets High floating point performance for complex compute rendering Dual CPUs to handle simultaneous tasks XVR 500 or XVR 1000 Graphics Accelerators Electronic Design EDA Chip designers board designers System houses Telco High performance full 64 bit processing Large memory capacity Availability of applications PGX 64 or XVR 500 Graphics Accelerators Financial Stock and commodity traders Banks High performance CPUs Compact design Multimedia capabilities Multi headed display capability Mechanical Design MCAD MCAE Automotive Aerospace Defense industry Mechanical equipment designers High performance full 64 bit processing High end graphics performance and functionality Availability of applications XVR 500 Graphics Accelerator Oil and Gas 2D 3D and 4D seismic analysis e Production engineering Reservoir engineering High performance full 64 bit processing to handle computation with large data sets High end graphics performance and
98. time and money Access to world class UNIX networking experts SunClient Software SunClient SunClient Central Feature B Tech Support Maintenance Maintenance uir Option Systems approach coverage m S Solaris and unbundled software x technical support 9 a m 5 p m Monday Friday 7 7 xi telephone coverage 9 a m 5 p m Monday Friday on qu KE site coverage Response times phone onsite 4 hour callback next 4 hour callback second 4 hour callback business day response business day response Centralized on site repair of H Not Applicable multiple units Patches Not Applicable Not Applicable i SunSolve license Not Applicable Not Applicable m SunSolve EarlyNotifier Service Not Applicable Not Applicable Software updates Not Applicable Not Applicable Not Applicable Can only be sold as an option to SunClient Maintenance or SunClient Central Maintenance Next business day on site response requires that the request for service be received by 3 00 p m If the call is received after 3 00 p m service is provided on the second business day t Customers located more than 50 miles from an authorized service provider or reseller is charged an additional fee for service activity Features and Benefits of the SunClient Program Features Unbundled hardware and software support Just the Facts Benefits Flexibility Select the type and amount of cove
99. uickly identify a system among a large number of systems by using the new locator command to illuminate the locator LED on some new UltraSPARC systems SPARC platform only Solaris 8 2 02 Operating Environment now includes integrated support for the Netra X1 system making it easier to install and maintain these systems SPARC platform only Allows users to suspend a system to save power or power off temporarily for transport SPARC platform only The Solaris 8 2 02 Operating Environment release provides support for major linear tape open LTO tape drives SPARC platform only Provides the benefits of Open Source operating systems such as Linux while continuing to provide datacenter quality stability and scalability Allows legacy applications to be turned into web services by providing SOAP WSDL XML and UDDI interfaces limited licensing for evaluation and development only SPARC platform only Customers who are moving their information services to the services on demand model can preserve their existing software applications investment by utilizing the capabilities of the iPlanet Integration Server EAI Edition Graphics Software Interfaces Just the Facts amp Sun microsystems August 2002 52 Java 3D Java Advanced 3 D Graphics Imaging Java 2D ening OpenGL 3D Graphics Imaging Audio DSP Algebra Pour Java Developer Kit X Windowing System
100. uous exercising of system resources and internal and external peripheral equipment Used to determine if the system is functioning properly SunVTS software incorporates a multifunctional stress test of the system through operating system level calls and allows the addition of new tests as they become available Solaris Web Start Software Solaris Web Start software is an easy to use Java technology based application that guides users through the installation of both the Solaris Operating Environment and copackaged application software with a single on screen button Its graphical user interface facilitates file system configuration It also features a built in suite of on line information and answers questions about the product itself the software it installs and the hardware platform it supports Solstice Enterprise Agents Software Solstice Enterprise Agents software allows the workstation to be managed from simple network management protocol SNMP based system network management tools Solstice Enterprise Agents software is based on the extensible agent technology or manager subagent technology The Manager agents receive and respond to SNMP or desktop management interface DMI requests After retrieving the appropriate values from the respective subagents responses are sent The subagents manage information bases MIBs or MIFs designed for specific components and applications Solaris Desktop Extensions Software Solaris Desktop E
101. upport synchronizes data from most Palm Computing devices with the CDE calendar mail memo and address book Allows the customer to apply scarce system expertise remotely across the enterprise Logging file system features and parallel SCSI probes help make rebooting faster amp Sun microsystems August 2002 49 Features Live Upgrade Real time video creation and broadcast support 100 percent binary compatibility Reliability availability and serviceability RAS 64 bit computing 64 bit compilers Java2 SDK Pv6 IPsec Mobile IP Scale from 1 to 512 processors per node LDAP directory services System management tools Just the Facts Benefits Allows Solaris 8 software to be installed on a separate partition from the currently running version of the operating environment When installation is complete a simple reboot enables the Solaris 8 Operating Environment to take control Live Upgrade includes a version migration and fallback feature so the customer can also fallback to the previous release through a simple reboot without losing administration information The Java Media Framework JMF player provides access to the latest industry standard audio and video files including MPEG1 2 Quicktime VIVO AVI AIFF GSM WAV RMF AU and MIDI Software investment protection all of today s Solaris Operating Environment certified 32 bit applications continue to ru
102. vations of this interconnect is the ability to combine the simplicity of a single bus with the high bandwidth normally associated with a switch based interconnect This is accomplished with the complete separation and independence of address and data paths The address and data paths in most computer systems are very closely related especially in their low level sequencing forcing a strong coupling between the transport of addresses and data between system components The system interconnect breaks away from this traditional methodology by completely separating the address and data paths both at the topological level and in low level sequencing For addresses a hierarchical bus is used For data a high bandwidth point to point data network is used This interconnect supports high performance servers with up to 24 processor sockets For larger scale systems a directory protocol can be used to connect many smaller groups of CPUs together The directory protocol is based on Sun s scalable shared memory SSM architecture Within each group snooping is used for coherency and the directory protocol is used between groups The CPUs of the UItraSPARC III Cu family all have built in support for both the snooping and the directory based cache coherency protocols With the directory protocol coherent multiprocessor with more than a thousand CPUs can be built Memory The Sun Blade 2000 workstations support up to 8 GB of 50 ns 232 pin 3 3 volt dynam
103. xtensions software features ideal systems management tools for those non UNIX platform users who want to quickly view processes and system resources The process manager in Solaris Desktop Extensions software is a GUI based tool that enables users to quickly identify sort suspend and eliminate processes based on attributes such as CPU consumption and time elapsed Solaris Desktop Extensions software also features a GUI based performance monitor enabling users to quickly monitor some of the key system resources such as CPU load disk page context job swaps interrupts packets collisions and errors ShowMe How Software State of the Art Installation and Maintenance Instruction ShowMe How software is a documentation system that presents information in a highly understandable multimedia format Installation and service tutorials as well as reference information provide users with comprehensive easy to use instruction ShowMe How software streamlines installation and maintenance to help lower service costs and maximize system uptime Some of the features of this tool are Distributed on CD ROM amp Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 47 Movies of installation and replacement procedures played through ShowMe TV software packaged with application Photo sequences with narrated installation and replacement procedures Text based instructions can be viewed on line and printed excerpted from standard Sun documentati
104. y level parallelism and to amp Sun microsystems Just the Facts August 2002 14 schedule memory operations This mechanism is extra important because the processors in the UltraSPARC III family have blocking loads when the processor reaches a load instruction that misses in the cache the processor waits for the load to complete before executing any other instructions The processors supports software prefetching where the compiler or Java JIT can schedule prefetching of data to exploit memory level parallelism Some versions of the processor will also support hardware prefetching where the processor observes common data sequences and attempts to prefetch the data automatically There are a number of variations of software prefetches Software prefetches can specify if the data should be brought into the processor either for reading or both reading and writing Software can also specify if the data should be installed into the external cache for data that will be reused frequently or only brought into the prefetch cache One of the main mechanisms for implementing prefetches is a special prefetch cache The prefetch cache is a small 2 KB cache that is accessed in parallel with the data cache for floating point loads Floating point load misses hardware prefetches and software prefetches bring data into the prefetch cache The prefetch cache is 4 way set associative and has 64 byte lines which are broken into two 32 byte subblocks with sep
105. ze Bank Configuration Kit Selection 2048 MB 2 banks 256 MB DIMMs two 7061A 2048 MB 1 bank 512 MB DIMMs one 7062A 3072 MB 1 bank 512 MB DIMMs and 1 bank 256 MB DIMMs one 7062A and one 7061A 4096 MB 1 bank 1024 MB DIMMs one 7052A 4096 MB 2 banks 512 MB DIMMs two 7062A 5120 MB 1 bank 1024 MB DIMMs and 1 bank 256 MB DIMMs one 7052A and one 7061A 6144 MB 1 bank 1024 MB DIMMs and 1 bank 512 MB DIMMs one 7052A and one 7062A 8192 MB 2 banks 1024 MB DIMMs two 7052A Step 4 Select a graphics card Required Select a one or more cards subject to installation combinations listed below The maximum configuration of graphics cards in the Sun Blade 2000 workstations is as follows e Sun Creator3D graphics maximum 2 e Sun Elite3D m6 graphics maximum 2 Sun PGX64 graphics maximum 4 Sun Expert3D graphics maximum 2 must be installed in 33 MHz PCI slot Sun Expert3D Lite graphics maximum 3 must be installed in 33 MHz PCI slot Sun XVR 500 graphics maximum 4 e Sun XVR 1000 graphics maximum 2 Part Number Description Max Supported Bus Connections 3670A Sun Creator3D graphics 2 UPA 13W3 3679A Sun Elite3D m6 graphics 2 UPA 13W3 3768A Sun PGX64 graphics 4 PCI66 HD15 3678A Sun Expert3D graphics 2 PCI66 13W3 3684A Sun Expert3D Lite graphics 3 PCI66 HD15 3685A Sun XVR 1000 graphics 4 PCI 13W3 HD15 3256A Sun XVR 1000 graphics 2 UPA 13W3 HD15 DVi The specific mix and match rules

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