Hewlett Packard Co has announced that its new HP Workstation zx2000 and zx6000 Itanium-based workstations can now be configured with Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation edition in addition to HP's own HP-UX 11i Unix variant.
These two Itanium-based workstations are built on HP's "Pluto" zx1 chipset and Intel Corp's "McKinley" generation of 64-bit processors. The entry zx2000 workstation has a single 900MHz McKinley chip with 1.5MB of L3 cache, AGP4X graphics, and up to 4GB of DDR SDRAM main memory, and up to 146GB of disk space all packed into a 4U rack or tower. A base machine with 1GB of main memory, a 40GB disk, an ATI Radeon 7000 graphics card, and an HP-UX license costs $5,865. A zx2000 workstation with the same 1GB of memory and 900MHz McKinley chip plus a 36GB disk and an ATI FireGL4 graphics card, plus HP-UX, costs $8,340.
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