The Ultra 1 series with Creator3D technology brings you all the fast image processing and MPEG video decompression of Creator graphics, plus accelerated 24-bit, double- and Z-buffered 3-D rendering. Sun's 24-bit, single-buffered 2-D graphics and imaging enables you to pan, zoom, rotate, convolve, and perform color conversion at unprecedented speeds. The UltraSPARC Port Architecture is a crossbar-switched interconnect that enables multiple simultaneous data transfers. All the Ultra 1 systems are built around the same core technology, the ultra-fast UltraSPARC microprocessor. These workstations combine high processor speeds with an efficient four-way super scalar design for unprecedented desktop performance.Creator and Creator3D graphics, tightly coupled to the processor through the UPA interconnect, allow the entire system to act as a graphics engine, utilizing floating-point processor speed, VIS capabilities, and memory capacity to their fullest. At the same time, 3D-RAM technology combines the best features of DRAM, SRAM, and VRAM onto one chip. The UltraSPARC processors' revolutionary Visual Instruction Set (VIS) is the industry's most flexible and comprehensive array of on-chip multimedia, graphics, and imaging technologies. These systems are designed for compute-intensive and visualization-demanding applications.