Introduced in September of 2003, the Sun Blade 1500 Red workstation uses the 1.062GHz UltraSPARC IIIi processor and offers high-performance 64-bit computing. The Sun Blade 1500 workstation is equipped with a rich set of workstation features, including support for 8 GB of DDR memory, up to two internal 80-GB Ultra ATA100 hard drives, five PCI slots, and support for high-performance graphics such as the Sun XVR-100 or Sun XVR-600 graphics accelerators. The Sun Blade 1500 workstation also offers built-in USB 1.1, USB 2.0 and IEEE 1394a FireWire ports and on-board Gigabit Ethernet (10/100/1000Base-T).
The Sun Blade 1500 Red workstation was replaced by the Sun Blade 1500 Silver workstation in February of 2005, and EOL’d (end-of-lifed) in August of 2005.
Sun | Sun Blade 1500 Red Workstation
| Processor: | One 1-GHz or 1.5-GHz UltraSPARC IIIi processor |
| Cache: | 1 MB Level 2 integrated on die |
| Main memory: | Up to 16 GB of registered DDR PC2100 ECC memory: 4 DIMM slots supporting 256-MB, 512-MB, 1-GB, and 2-GB DIMMs (memory DIMM installation required in pairs) |
| Disk drives: | Up to two 120-GB Ultra ATA100 internal disk drives |
| Network: | 10/100/1000-Mbps (Gigabit) Base-T Ethernet port |
| I/O: | Three USB 2.0 ports, four USB 1.1/1.0 ports, two 1394a (Firewire) ports |
| Serial: | Two RS-232C/RS-423 (DB-9) ports |
| Parallel: | One D-Sub 9-pin connector, IEEE 1284 (bidirectional) |
| Audio I/O: | One line in, one line out One microphone in, one speaker out |
| Expansion bus: | Five full length PCI slots: one at 64-bit/66 MHz two at 64-bit/33 MHz two at 32-bit/33 MHz |
| Graphics: | The Sun Blade 1500 workstation supports up to three Sun XVR-100 or up to two Sun XVR-500 or Sun XVR-600 graphics accelerators |
