DATA SCIENTISTS
ROUTINELY HANDLE
MASSIVE DATA SETS
Z by HP Workstations put computing power
where researchers need it.
Z by HP Workstations put computing power
where researchers need it.
For peak performance, it’s hard to beat
a
well-configured local workstation.
Good carpenters don’t use a hammer when a wrench is the right tool. While cloud has changed the computing landscape by making storage and computer power widely available, relying on it for every application would be a fundamental error.
Cloud options always suffer from latency lag due to the distance and number of “hops” that data must travel to reach the computing resource. In scientific and data-centric circles, there’s often no substitute for the computing power of a local workstation.
And when you’re trying to retain top research talent and maintain your institutional reputation, technology matters.
57%
Of data will be captured and
processed at the endpoint by 2023
64%
Of end users say the technology they’re
given affects their productivity.2
56%
Say the technology their employer provides affects their willingness to stay long-term.2
Why Workstations?
Performance, reliability, and flexibility to adjust to the task at hand make workstations the right answer for your research labs.
Performance
The faculty, researchers, and students who use workstations have tightly defined technical requirements. Not just for higher performance, but also for more configurability to optimize for their rigorous workloads.
Typically, workstations take advantage of multiple server-grade CPUs with high core counts as well as powerful graphics cards. That level of performance helps data scientists manage big data projects and deliver insights faster.
End-to-End Faster Speeds with Rapids on Nvidia® RTX 80003
Data Prep
Training
End-to-End
End-to-end time = ETL + Conversion + Training + Validation. CPU Intel® Xeon® processor 6140 @ 3.2GHz, 3.7GHz Turbo, 384GB RAM, Ubuntu 16.04.4, NVIDIA driver 410.93. HP results may differ.
Unmatched Reliability
HP Z Workstations are specialized laptop and desktop PCs designed, optimized, and tested for demanding real-world tasks like capturing, cleaning, and processing data.
Our reliability promise extends beyond hardware to applications, with software publisher certifications that ensure deployed software not only operates at peak performance, but also is easy to manage and update. Z Workstations are also backed by layers of first-class, US-based service.
Purpose-Built Solutions
Workstations are not mass-market mainstream computing products—they are purpose-built for heavy-duty workloads such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science.
And not just today’s workloads, but tomorrow’s, too. Z by HP Workstations are designed with configurability to accommodate the high-performance requirements of the next iteration of applications and workloads, with multiple multi-core server-grade processors; hundreds of gigabytes of fast, error-correcting memory; and terabytes of SSD storage.
75%
Of enterprise-generated data
will be created and processed
outside data centers and the
cloud by 2025.4
SERIOUS WORK CALLS FOR SERIOUS COMPUTING POWER.
Pull computation to the edge, with Z by HP.
Your researchers deserve the power of high-performance computing at their fingertips, built for data scientists, certified and configured to work with the software they need to deliver insights faster.
The Z Advantage
The testing is brutal—all 360,000 hours of it, running computation- and graphics-heavy workflows. But it’s how we know that Z Workstations can manage 5 billion rows of data in milliseconds. It’s why our workstations are chosen for advanced data science applications like AI/ML, computer vision, and automation.
We’ve made it fast and easy to get up and running. Everything a researcher could need is built into the box—no IT intervention is needed to set up the preloaded data science software stack of open-source software tools like Ubuntu Linux, TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, XGBoost, RAPIDS, CUDA, cuML, cuDF, Git, Visual Studio Code, RStudio, and Docker.
And you can run your data science apps from anywhere. HP ZCentral Remote Boost lets you harness the power of your workstation from any other device in any location, even collaborate with colleagues in real time.
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Learn more
1. International Data Corp., Worldwide Global DataSphere Forecast, 2019-2023
2. The Importance of the PC in a Data-Centric World,” International Data Corp. via Intel Corp, https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/business/enterprise-computers/resources/importance-of-pc-data-centric-world.html
3. Gartner, “What Edge Computing Means for Infrastructure and Operations Leaders,” https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/what-edge-computing-means-for-infrastructure-and-operations-leaders
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