NAB: Fusion-io Announces HP Collaboration

Fusion-io has chosen NAB as the platform upon which to announced its new collaboration with global workstation leader HP, which will see the Fusion ioFX integrated into the HP Z820, Z620 and Z420 Workstations.
The integrated solutions will "offer development platforms for professional artists in visual effects, upstream exploration of oil and gas, digital content creation (DCC) and computer-aided design (CAD)," according to Fusion-io. In addition, professionals interested in adding the Fusion ioFX to their current HP Workstation can purchase the ioFX as a custom integration component.
"I consider HP one of the best engineering companies in the world, so I'm thrilled to see HP and Fusion-io working together to advance workstation computing architectures," said Steve Wozniak, Fusion-io Chief Scientist. "The Fusion ioFX brings the intelligence of the Fusion-io approach to HP's incredible workstations, adding even more powerful application performance to the precision engineering HP is known for around the world."
The Fusion ioFX provides application acceleration to workstation applications such as those from Adobe, Assimilate, and The Foundry.
The new solution will integrate the Fusion ioFX into the powerful HP Z Workstations with Intel Xeon processors. The architecture is designed to deliver an "industry-leading" platform for digital content creation applications.
"HP is the workstation industry leader, and our customers demand to be the first to get cutting edge solutions that deliver performance, reliability and innovation," said Jeff Wood, vice president of product management, Commercial Solutions Business Unit, HP.
"Providing the Fusion ioFX in our high-end HP Z Workstations will offer customers improved performance to tackle their most challenging projects faster."
Tuned for sustained performance in multithreaded applications, the ioFX enables artists to work on 2K, 4K and 5K content interactively, in full resolution, as well as to manipulate stereoscopic content in real time.
Visit HP Booth SL 9605 to see the Fusion ioFX live at NAB 2013.
www.fusionio.com
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