Aries Research Inc says it now shipping its Marixx ds (deskside) Sparcstation 10-compatible server, which comes with up to four HyperSparc RISCs on the Fujitsu Ltd Ross subsidiary’s multichip module. Aries’ other offerings have used the SuperSparc. The quad processor server is rated at 4554 SPECrate_int and 5457 SPECrate_fp, comes with from 32Mb to 512Mb RAM, 2Gb to 16Gb disk, 150Mb tape, two Mbus and four Sbus slots, Ethernet, ISDN, SCSI 2, two serial and one parallel port and Solaris 1.x or 2.x. Prices start at $26,650. The Fremont, California-based company’s latest graphics accelerator boards, the 2Mb TGX200 and 4Mb TGX400, based on Sun’s Turbo GXPlus, sell for $3,100 and $3,400.
