HP Why a Workstation Guide

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Mission-critical
reliability
HP Workstations are designed to
comprehensively address reliability in all its
forms. They are made for those who need
their machine to run 24 hours a day, 7 days a
week, 52 weeks a year. For professionals who
rely on the highest application performance
and who need to ensure data integrity,
HP workstations meet those high reliability
expectations through both design and testing.
A strenuous design standard
We design our systems based on professional
application demands, a full-time customer
usemodelandave-yeardesignlife.This
24x7 design standard drives the types of
components we use and how we design
our machines. Even the smallest and most
common electronic components, like resistors
and capacitors, are carefully chosen based on
quality, reliability and top performance. Our
engineers physically deconstruct workstation
components to study the materials and
the chemicals used in them. For example,
they detect and avoid DIMMs that use
poor chemicals that can lead to corrosion,
creating a potential point of failure on the
motherboard.
Independent Software Vendor (ISV)
certication
HP supports an extensive list of application
partners and works closely with many
software vendors to ensure that these
applicationsworksmoothlyandawlesslyon
HPWorkstationsinallpossiblecongurations.
HP also provides a test suite to graphics
vendors, to help increase the reliability
and stability of industry-standard graphics
products. Learn more about how our
partnerships power you.
Tested beyond industry standards
Our customers put their workstations through
thetoughesttrials,sowedotoo—before
they can. We subject components to rigorous
testing to verify their performance under
extreme conditions. In brutal three-axis
testing—wherefrequency,voltage,and
temperaturearevaried—ourengineers
push the limits of processors, memory, and
other system parts. This three-axis testing
uses proprietary tools and techniques, and
stresses components in ways that help detect
potential design or component weaknesses
that would otherwise go unnoticed. In some
cases,rigorousqualicationenablesus
tondissuesthathavebeenpreviously
overlooked by our component vendors. Our
strongrelationshipsandinuencewiththese
partners enable us to obtain and integrate
improved components into our systems,
many of which are unique to HP Workstations.
HP Workstation engineers are fanatical about
quality because we know our users are too.
Engineered BIOS
HP BIOS helps hardware compatibility and
increases workstation reliability by reducing
power consumption through preset sleep
states, adjustable fan speeds that maximize
operatingeciency,andpowermanagement
features.
ECC memory for data integrity
Memory errors can happen anywhere,
anytime—withconsequencesasdisastrous
as a system crash in the middle of a critical
operation. Field studies have shown that
morethan8%ofDIMMsareaectedby
errors. Random errors that are mostly
caused by background radiation especially
proton and neutron showers caused by
high-energy cosmic rays interacting with the
atmosphere can seriously compromise data
integrity.
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Inadditioneldstudiesshowthat
environmentaleectssuchasdirtandheat,
or assembly defects increase the probability
that a memory error will occur.
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Error Correction Code (ECC) memory detects
and corrects soft errors in the memory
systemonthey,preservingtheintegrity
of your data. ECC memory is seen as a
“premium” part, and is often used only in
servers.
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HP,however,oersECCmemory
on our workstations so your mission-critical
applications can run smoothly with minimized
memory errors.
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Ultimately, our intense focus
on reliability gives you
greater peace of mind
when running professional
applications on an
HP Workstation. You know
that you have a system
that is designed, tested, and
proven for the work you do.