New workstations from HP
DESPITE an economic environment characterised by cautious spending, Hewlett-packard Co’s Personal Systems Group country general manager Kim Dae Hwan sees a bright future for the workstation market.
“While users are more careful about value and better returns for every dollar spent, the user base for workstations is growing as more discover what they can accomplish with better computing power and efficiency,” he said.
HP has come out with its first all-in-one workstation, and has new additions to its line of Z Series workstations.
Built for computer-aided design, digital media and entertainment professionals, the highlights of the new range are the Z1 and Z820.
Sporting a sleek industrial design, the Z1 houses a 27in LED display that supports more than one billion colours, features a wide 178-degree viewing angle, and an in-plane switching (IPS) panel.
The display casing snaps open so that users can easily swap out hardware and make upgrades without the need for tools.
Meanwhile, the Z820 is intended for oil & gas, mechanical computeraided design, mechanical computer-aided engineering, medical and, video and animation professionals.
HP said the Z820 provides up to 16 processing cores, up to 512GB of ECC (error-correcting code) memory, up to 15 terabytes of highspeed storage, and up to two nvidia Quadro 6000 graphics cards.
Also, the new range of workstations run on Intel Xeon E5 processors, which offer an increase in computational capacity and proficiency with an optimised I/O infrastructure.