Unlike most compute farm offerings that require significant integration and support, Sun TCF is pre-configured and optimized for computationally intensive applications. Customers can deploy Sun TCF quickly and easily to help increase productivity and reduce time to market. In addition, by utilizing Sun TCF, customers can help maximize total CPU efficiency and improve memory utilization, which decreases their total cost of ownership. Sun TCF is one of a new family of products that optimize network resources and enhance utilization in advanced computing environments. Other recently announced products include Technical Sun Ray, an enterprise appliance designed to leverage network computing power to support advanced design.
Customers have four choices for purchase depending on configuration needs.
Sun's technology supports this environment and is allowing us to realize a better time to market. Our network computing model requires a reliable server infrastructure capable of dynamic expansion as workloads increase. Server farms are a great way to do this, but racking and stacking disparate hardware components is a slow and complicated process. We are pleased to work with Sun on cost-effective packaged farms that rapidly deliver the scalable performance and predictable reliability that our customers need. As one of the fastest growing EDA software providers, meeting our increasing demands for computing power is a challenge.