Make the move to an HP workstation

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Read on to learn more about the benefits of making the move to an HP workstation.

Or, better yet, check out our line up of personal workstation products to choose the right one for your needs!

Workstations offer the following great features that enhance overall reliability:

• Error correcting memory (ECC): Workstations typically support Error Checking and Correction (ECC) memory, a server-like feature that provides protection against soft errors in the memory that could lead to corrupted data and process and application failures.
• Chassis design: Workstation package design allows better airflow, reduced noise, and larger power supplies. These features provide higher operating temperature margins, reduced stress on power-hungry components, and provide longer component life.
• Third-party application support: HP workstations users benefit from excellent long-term partnerships with application vendors, allowing extensive testing and integration of third-party software.
•  Designed for rapid upgrades and repairs: Workstations have toolless design for serviceability, making expansion or repairs quick and reducing downtime.

Workstations are designed for longer life cycles, thereby reducing cost and improving ROI. 

• Expandability and upgradeability: HP workstations have built-in expansion room for additional memory, I/O cards, graphics cards, and processors. In some cases, the workstations are upgradeable to higher-performance processors, lengthening the useful life of the system.
• Large number of I/O slots: Workstations can support more peripherals, and can be redeployed for a longer life cycle.
• Toolless chassis design adds ease and flexibility of upgrading—reducing downtime.
• Larger power supplies: The system can be upgraded or expanded with additional I/O cards and/or high-end graphics cards.

Workstations provide higher performance, allowing users to solve larger problems, run more jobs, and improve productivity. 

• More processor cores:  Workstations support processors not often seen on business desktops, such as the AMD Opteron™ and Intel® Xeon® processors—both of which feature multiprocessing capabilities. In some cases, processors can be deployed in dual-core configurations, resulting in systems with up to four processor cores in a single workstation enclosure.
• More and faster I/O channels: Additional I/O performance and capacity are important to workstation applications and the large files that they often generate.
• More memory: Plenty of memory is important to ensure the balance between application, data, and operating system requirements, especially in a 64-bit environment.
• Performance Tuning Framework: This application automatically manages graphics drivers and performs configuration optimizations to maximize performance and reliability.
• 32- and 64-bit operating environments: A 64-bit processor allows users to generate much larger models and to manage a much greater amount of data in memory, instead of working the data back and forth to disk. With a 64-bit address space, personal workstations can efficiently utilize tens of gigabytes of physical memory instead of the four GB limitation found in many PCs.

Professionals prefer to use highest-quality, highest-performance tools to meet the demanding requirements of their customers.

• ISV certifications and partnerships: HP supports an extensive list of application partners. In most cases, HP works closely with these vendors to ensure a high quality, highly optimized application on HP workstations.
• Latest revisions of ISV software: A key benefit of HP’s ISV partnerships is the presence of HP engineers onsite at many vendor locations to certify the systems, tune the code, and improve application performance. This also results in HP customers getting the latest revisions of software sooner than competitors.
• Dedicated Microsoft® Windows® support team: The workstation group within HP has a dedicated Windows R&D team with over twenty years of experience that provides the foundation of enabling, testing, and supporting Windows on all HP workstation platforms.

Workstations support the most powerful graphics cards for 2D, 3D, and multi-monitor applications.

• HP has over 20 years experience in providing superior graphics technology—through seven generations of graphics accelerators development and across three operating systems. This Leadership Graphics Program provides the industry's most expansive, fast, and flexible set of graphics solutions.
• Strategic partnership/ISV certification of graphics cards: HP has developed a test suite that is distributed to graphics vendors for incorporation into their test plan. This has a noticeable increase in reliability and stability of industry-standard graphics products.
• High-performance, large memory graphics card support: Workstations are designed to support the most powerful graphics cards. For example, these cards may offer 256 or 512 MB of fast DDR memory, have additional graphics pipelines and engines, and support higher graphics processing unit clock speeds.

Exclusive to HP, the HP Remote Graphics Software allows unprecedented collaboration—sharing the graphics display, applications, and datasets anywhere in the world.

• Remotely access 2D and 3D graphics workstations: HP Remote Graphics Software is a utility that allows you to remotely access and share your graphics workstation desktop and all its applications and datasets using the Internet, wherever you are in the world.
• Access applications on different platforms such as Windows, Linux, and HP-UX: Multiple users are able to remotely interact with large models—even without the modeling application and data on their workstations (subject to license restrictions).
• Multi-user remote collaborations: HP Remote Graphics Software is a cost-effective mechanism for providing a collaborative, shared environment of complex graphics amongst a (perhaps geographically-dispersed) group of users in a wide variety of industries.