As of this week we are proud owners of an UltraSPARC T2 system (1 socket @ 8 cores, 32 GB, 1.2 GHz). This one is a little slower than the 1.4 GHz machine we had access to at RWTH Aachen, but the characteristics are quite the same. After some intensive benchmarking, this machine will be made available in our test cluster for all HPC users to evaluate.