Dell launches 'smallest tower, most powerful rack workstations'
Dell Monday announced an expanded and stronger Dell Precision workstation portfolio that includes "the smallest tower workstation chassis in its class", the Dell Precision T1700 small form-factor, and "the world's most powerful rack workstation", the Dell
The expanded Dell Precision family also features a more powerful and reliable Dell Precision T1700 Mini-Tower rounding out a workstation portfolio that offers increased performance for entry-level and high-end workstation users.
Dell said in a press statement that the new Dell Precision T1700 small form-factor (SFF) is the smallest and lightest workstation in its class and it is approximately 30 percent smaller than competitive systems. The T1700 SFF also offers powerful workstation performance at near desktop PC prices, the statement said.
The T1700 SFF and the Dell Precision T1700 Mini-Tower (MT) are designed and certified for engineering, architecture and finance professionals. The workstations also are ideal for higher education and high-school students working with 2D, entry-level 3D simulation or multitasking with demanding applications.
Both the T1700 SFF and T1700 MT offer next generation Intel workstation-class processors, NVIDIA and AMD professional-grade graphics with PCIx x16 Gen3 slots and expanded ISV certifications to help accomplish more in less time. The T1700 SFF is “the only entry-level workstation” to offer two front USB 3.0 ports to help move data faster and enable easy connectivity to external media and accessories, Dell said.
Dell said updates to its rack workstations include significantly more power, an enhanced remote experience and new virtualisation capabilities for engineers, designers and other professional users who demand the best performance.
The new Dell Precision R7610 now packs the power of Dell’s flagship T7600 tower workstation in an intelligently designed 2U rack form-factor that’s ideal for data centers or OEM embedded solutions. The Dell Precision R7610 enables customers to centralize, secure and manage data, leverage their worldwide talent pool, and share resources for improved cost effectiveness.
Organizations using the R7610 rack workstation can improve ROI through increased access and better utilization of their assets as a single workstation can be used by four users without sacrificing performance.
The new R7610 achieves this via GPU pass-through and certifications with Citrix XenServer 6.1.0 using Citrix XenDesktop HDX 3D Pro, which allows all the resources of a dedicated discrete graphics card to be uniquely shared with multiple users in a hosted-shared environment or made available to a single user or virtual machine in a virtualized environment.
The R7610 can support up to four single wide graphics cards such as the NVIDIA Quadro K2000 andAMD FireProW5000 mainstream cards, and high-performance NVIDIA Quadro K4000 cards, or up to three double-wide NVIDIA Quadro K5000 cards. Expanded capabilities, including NVIDIA GRID with virtualized graphics, will be available later this year.
Further increasing Dell’s industry-leading reliability, the R7610 now comes with the exclusive Reliable Memory Technology, a Dell patented code programmed at the BIOS level that eliminates virtually all memory errors and therefore the need for extensive full memory tests, IT support calls and memory DIMM replacement.
The R7610 also is designed, tested and certified for a broad selection of applications for confident, reliable performance. In addition, the memory has been expanded to four channels with up to 256GB² in 16 DIMM slots, with future availability of 512GB², an integrated 6 GB/s LSI2308 SATA/SAS controller and available dual Intel E5-2687W 150 watt 8 core processors.
The Dell Precision R7610 rack workstation is available today starting at THB 78,673and the Dell Precision T1700 Mini-Tower and Small Form-Factor will be available on June 4.
“Dell continues to build on our heritage of developing innovative, cutting edge workstation technology by adding the smallest tower and most powerful rack workstation to our Dell Precision portfolio,” said Ekarja Panjavinin, Country Manager, Dell Corporation (Thailand).
“With increased power, reliability and new virtualization capabilities, these workstations deliver uncompromising performance, dependability and smart design that engineers and other high-end application users need to be successful.”
