Six-speed dual-core HP xw9400 Workstation Opteron evaluation - server, switch-IT industry

Lead: In this year's April 15, HP announced a new Z-series workstations, Z400, Z600 and Z800. All Z series workstations are Intel Camp, were using Intel's latest Nehalem processors. Workstations in the Bank on the occasion of Z series, HP A MD Workstation platform is not died down, in June this year, six-core AMD Opteron "Istanbul," was released, HP Workstation xw9400 high-end AMD platform, the first time to upgrade to a six-core Opteron platform with a 12-core processing power, and each watt quad-core platform performance compared to an improvement of 30% or more.

An HP xw9400 Workstation overview Xw9400 is HP in January 2007 launch of the AMD Opteron dual-platform high-end workstations, with the AMD Opteron processor update, has used over the dual-core Opteron 2200 processors and quad-core Opteron 2300 deal devices, using AMD Opteron platform with Direct Connect Architecture, Integration Memory Controller, high-speed HyperTransport bus and other characteristics, xw9400 in the oil and gas exploration, financial computing, graphics rendering and other data-intensive work, said the designer of hand tools, such as oil and gas exploration in Xinjiang, Beijing rendering platform applications, xw9400 are play an important role, CCTV's "Summer Palace" rendering projects, have adopted more than xw9400 workstation. HP xw9400 Workstation

This year in June, AMD "Istanbul" six-core Opteron launch, "Istanbul" by the native six-core design, technology has improved to 45 nm, two-channel integrated memory controller, with three Super HyperTransport3.0 transfer bus, and have the new AMD-P energy control technology, so that six-core Opteron quad-core Opteron energy consumption and maintain the same level. According to AMD, said the six-core Opteron performance per watt increased 34%. Xw9400 processor upgrade gives more computing power and higher energy efficiency can make xw9400 professional graphics computing, such as engineering design, 3D digital content creation, Oil And gas, and scientific computing applications such as multi-threaded, multi-tasking environment of massive task to navigate.

Addition to computing power and energy efficiency increase but, xw9400 Workstation is designed to extend HP's "professional, innovation, green" concept, using free tools to design, through EPEAT Gold Certified used Environmental protection Materials, 90% of the weight of the parts can be recycled; use efficiency by 80Plus certified Power supply And reduce energy waste; addition xw9400 options are water-cooled, so that the workstation has a better cooling effect, and more refined sound. On the professional, xw9400 through a wide range of ISV certified professional software applications in a more efficient and stable; of course, xw9400, and, like other HP workstations with HP Performance Tuning Framework PTF unique to the workstation has been optimized to run in the most working conditions, improve workstation performance, to avoid wasting performance.

Because most workstations before the test or are the Intel platform, so the author on this high-end AMD Opteron workstation has been very concerned about. Until recently, we received six-core Opteron workstation xw9400 prototype, but unfortunately is not water-cooled models. But in performance, I was very much looking forward xw9400 performance. In the following, we will xw9400 appearance, structure, and 3DsMax, Maya, SolidWorks and other professional applications, the performance assessment, to look at this 12-core Opteron workstation excels in place.

2, HP xw9400 Workstation specifications Previously outlined xw9400 features, let's first look at xw9400 called luxury configuration:

This HP xw9400 workstations to send test configuration of the two six-core AMD Opteron2431 processors, chipsets with NVIDIA nForce Pro3600 +3050, with the support of two independent HT bus two Opteron processors. Motherboard Provide eight memory slots, the maximum support 64GBDDR2 memory, specialized applications to meet the demanding needs of memory, standard four 4GB ECCPC2-5300P memory. Comes standard with a storage 300GB SAS 15,000 rpm Hard disk , Maximum support four 3.5-inch SAS / SATA hard disk. Is also equipped with high-end graphics card FX4800, with 1.5GB memory, with a powerful 3D processing capabilities.

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