Wednesday, March 7, 2012

HP workstation now gets 512 GB of memory

HP on Tuesday announced the newest generation Z Series Workstations, family of computers for professional applications that require high processing capabilities, such as hospitals, engineering firms, or video editing and animation.

The entire line is equipped with the powerful Intel Xeon chips, but the highlight is that the models can get a bearing - amazingly enough - up to 512 GB of RAM installed under the hood.

Who says computers are not legal professionals?
The honor belongs to the Z820 model, top of line in your configuration you can get more powerful with two eight-core Xeon processors running at 3.1 GHz, 14 TB of storage and 512 GB of RAM.

If this is not enough, the graphics processing is secured by two Nvidia Quadro 6000 graphics cards. In his gut, the T-Rex in the world of computers displays seven entries for Sata hard drives and 16 memory slots, capable of holding combs DDR3 up to 32GB of capacity, all compressed into an aluminum case with 44.4 cm x 20.3 to 52.5 deep. Same size as an ordinary desktop PC.

The other models in the line are the Z420 and Z620, which have modest settings close to his older brother. The first relies on the services of only one chip Xeon up to 2.9 GHz and "only" 64 GB of RAM, while the latter already has two processors and can have up to 96 GB of RAM. All models of the Z Series Workstations can run Windows 7 Professional or Linux.

The sales models are scheduled to begin in April. In its basic version, the affordable Z820 sells for $ 2,299 (£ 4000) and arrives with two Xeon 1.8 GHz and 4 GB of RAM. The value of the machine with all its options has not been disclosed, but it certainly tends to infinity.

Blogger's note: 512 GB of RAM is a figure so absurd, so absurd, but for today, there was a typing error in the title, in which the acronym was changed by GB MB in the first version. Until another day lived between computers that showed 512 MB of RAM and it's kind of hard to get rid of old habits. We apologize to readers who ended up running into this error and appreciate those who can readily point out the flaw.