HP has announced the HP Workstation zx2000 now includes the new low-voltage Intel Itanium 2 1.0-gigahertz processor with 1.5 megabyte L3 memory cache. The enhanced workstation provides up to a 10% increase in application performance. In addition, HP plans to introduce entry-level servers with the new low-voltage Intel Itanium processor in early 2004.

The single-processor workstation offers technical computing performance with a full range of graphics in either a racked or desk-side configuration with floating-point performance. The HP Workstation zx2000 is a high-performance system that allows software developers to create and debug applications for Itanium 2-based systems. HP Workstation zx2000 supports HP-UX 11i v2, Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 for Itanium and Windows’ XP 64-bit Edition version 2003.

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