HP Launches New Workstation for Data Intensive Users

HP (www.hp.com) today introduced a powerful new workstation that offers customers dramatically increased graphics and computing performance.
"The NVIDIA nForce Professional MCP and the family of NVIDIA Quadro graphics boards offered with the HP xw9300 Workstation will provide customers with a platform that takes graphic performance and visualization to a new level," said Jeff Brown, general manager, professional solutions group, NVIDIA.

The company's first workstation to include AMD Opteron™ processors and support for NVIDIA Quadro® SLI™ dual PCI Express graphics, the 64-bit HP xw9300 Workstation is built for customers with intensive computing demands - such as those in oil and gas exploration, computer-aided engineering (CAE), scientific research, software development and 3D animation.

Users can improve productivity with the added performance and enhanced visualization capability of the dual AMD Opteron 200 series processors, the new NVIDIA nForce Professional chipset and dual NVIDIA Quadro FX graphics solutions.

"The HP xw9300 Workstation provides a broader choice of workstation products for our customers who demand reliable but advanced technologies that help increase productivity, lower costs and reduce risks," said Jim Zafarana, vice president and worldwide marketing manager, Workstation Global Business Unit, HP.

The HP xw9300 Workstation is designed for graphics and data intensive applications such as those used in the discovery and production of oil and gas resources. This portion of the oil and gas market has the most computationally challenging applications, including geophysical and reservoir data analysis. The processing power of two AMD Opteron processors and advanced 3D graphics capabilities of dual PCI Express allow customers to visualize large data sets with greater accuracy, helping to reduce risk of error and potentially limit increased costs due to inaccuracies.

"As global demand for oil and gas increases, and new prospective oil fields become more complex, there is an urgent need to expand the use of 3D visualization technologies," said Philip Neri, vice president of Technology, Paradigm.

The blazing graphics performance of the HP xw9300 Workstation is made possible by the NVIDIA nForce Professional chipset enabling dual PCI Express x16 graphic slots.

HP workstation customers who plan to migrate to a 64-bit environment will appreciate the AMD Opteron processor, with its ability to simultaneously run 32- and 64-bit applications.

"The new HP xw9300 Workstation based on the AMD Opteron processor with Direct Connect Architecture is the next step in high-end visualization workstations. HP is responding to the needs of workstation customers who are demanding an AMD Opteron processor-based computing solution that will provide the ultimate in 32- and 64-bit performance," said Ben Williams, vice president, Enterprise and Server/Workstation Business, AMD.