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HP Announces Sand Bridge Xeon Workstations

HP is updating the Z Workstation series with Intel's recently released Xeon E5-2600 Sandy Bridge processors.

The computers will be available with 14 different E5-2600 processors in DP configurations ranging from the E5-2603 (1.8 GHz) to the E5-2687 (3.1 GHz). Pricing will start from $1,169 for the Z420 with support for up to 64 GB ECC DDR3 memory, $1,699 for the Z620 (up to 96 GB ECC DDR3), and $2,299 for the Z820, which integrates 16 DDR3 memory slots for up to 512 GB of ECC DD3 memory. All systems are scheduled to be available sometime in April.

HP offers plenty of configuration options that cover up to six 2.5-inch SAS HDDs (up to 3.6 TB), up to five 3.5-inch SATA or up to five 3.5-inch SAS HDDs (up to 14 TB or 3 TB, respecitively). Customers can also choose to order up to six 300 GB SATA SSDs. The configuration sheet includes professional graphics solutions from AMD (up to FirePro V7900) and Nvidia (up to Quadro 6000, Tesla C2075).

A fully decked out Z820 workstation will cost more than $30,000 and will be substantially more capable and expensive than the current Core i5 and Xeon 1200-series based workstations the company sells.