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HP today announced the immediate integration of the highly anticipated Six-Core AMD Opteronâ„¢ 2400 Series processor into the award-winning family of HP Workstations.

Ideal for high-end workstation applications in fields such as engineering, 3-D digital content creation, oil and gas, and science, the HP xw9400 Workstation taps the power of the new AMD Opteron processors to deliver higher productivity, especially for multi-threaded applications, multi-tasking and mega-tasking environments.

With the built-in engineering advantages of HP’s highly tuned workstations, the HP xw9400 Workstation can accommodate up to two Six-Core AMD Opteron processors – for a total of 12 cores – each of which offers up to 34 percent more performance per watt⁽¹⁾ over the previous-generation quad-core processors.

“HP understands the immense pressure its customers are under to deliver more return on investment in a shorter period of time,” said Jeff Wood, director, Worldwide Marketing, Workstations, HP. “By providing the most extreme combination of technologies – up to 12 cores in one workstation – HP continues its commitment to bringing customers leading-edge technologies.”

One of my colleagues who works on the trade floor had told me they were looking at the next batch of workstations at their bank for the traders, they’re currently running ones that are a few years old, there was genuine excitement to see how they’d perform running the bank’s build of XP, there was a debate about Intel vs AMD, in the meantime, do check them out.

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