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HP confirms fast Madison workstation
PRINTER FIRM Hewlett Packard has pre- announced its Madison based workstation - we said last week it would
launch some today.
The firm has introduced a $4,900 box which includes Madison Itanium 2s each at 1.5GHz but with the 6MB of level three cache or if you prefer a Deerfield, with 3MB of cache and at 1.3GHz clock speed.
Intel hasn't yet announced availability of the processors, but it will today.
The ZX 6000 workstation supports Windows XP 64-bit edition, HP/UX 11iV2 or Red Hat Linux advanced workstation 2.1.
The workstations have storage expandable to 438GB using SCSI interfaces, and HP claims the workstation is compatible with "all" Intel Itanium binaries.
The workhorse can address 24GB of DDR memory, and supports AGP graphics including the Radeon 7000 and the Quadro 2EX.
HP is claiming SPECint of 1318 and SPECfp of 2104 for these babies. µ
See Also
HP to launch Intel Madisons on June 30th
L'INQ
HP PDF with performance figures
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