Today, Sun is announcing the Sun Ultra 24 Workstation, our first quad-core x64 workstation. Powered by Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Core 2 Quad and Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad-Core Processors, the new workstation quickens design cycles, accelerates decision making and gets products to market faster. It offers the broadest range of OS support, including 32- and 64-bit versions of the Solaris OS, Windows, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux.

The Sun Ultra 24 is available now via the Sun Web site and Sun Startup Essentials. It will also be available through the Try and Buy program beginning Nov. 12.

Beta customers such as Wolfram Research and Volkswagen have already been testing out the Ultra 24. Go here to see what they have to say about it.

The Sun Ultra 24 has achieved three new benchmarks, including new world-record performance results on the Mathematica benchmark. Go here to learn more.

Check out this just-posted video of Brian Healy, Sun product manager, discussing the Sun Ultra 24 and showing off some of the features. You can watch the YouTube video below, or click here.