SUN has announced a new line of high-end servers that improve on previous models by as much as 70 per cent.
They are also being offered in clustered configurations to target the high-end markets traditionally captured by mainframes.
Along with the Netra Internet servers which the company launched earlier to target the PC-LAN market, Sun is now offering solutions that span the range of networking requirements from low-end to high-end, according to Michael Remedios, the firm's marketing manager in Hong Kong.
The new SPARCcentre 2000E and SPARCserver 1000E feature 60-MHz processor modules. The 1000E is an enhanced version of the SPARCserver 1000 and is available in configurations from two to eight processors.
The more powerful 2000E is a follow-up to the SPARCcentre 2000.
At the same time, Sun is annoucing the availability of the SPARCcluster1000 PDB and the SPARCcluster2000 PDB servers.
These systems provide no single point of failure in hardware and are highly fault tolerant by expanding parallel computing to multiple machines rather than having multiple central processing units in one workstation.