Blade Watch

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Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) on Monday introduced two workstations powered by multiple quad-core processors targeted at digital content professionals.

HP presented the xw8600 and xw9400 workstations at the National Association of Broadcasters show in Las Vegas. The xw8600 includes up to two Intel (NSDQ: INTC) Xeon X5482 processors, which have a 1,600-MHz front side bus and 800-MHz memory. The xw9400 offers up to three quad-core Opteron 2300 processors from Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD). Both machines are targeted at professionals in film/video post-production, animation, and the graphics arts industries.

Both machines comply with the highest environmental standards defined by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers through the organization’s Electronic Products Environmental Assessment Tool. HP workstation customers in the entertainment industry include animation company DreamWorks and A&E Television Networks.

As much as I love the blade desktop, the blade workstation, it’s always interesting to read how the workstation platforms evolve (the trader workstation remains a focus of interest to some of my colleagues in support). Anyway, HP have released their new workstations, they do look cool – as the workstation itself gets more powerful, I wonder how these would work in a development grid setup from an energy standpoint?

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