Fusion-io to Integrate ioFX Acceleration Into HP Z Workstations

Fusion-io, Inc. is collaborating with workstation manufacturer Hewlett-Packard Development Company to integrate its ioFX into the HP Z820, Z620 and Z420 workstations.

           HP Z820 Workstation


The integrated solutions will offer development platforms for professional artists in visual effects, upstream exploration of oil and gas, digital content creation and CAD. In addition, professionals interested in adding the 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 ioFX provides application acceleration to workstation applications such as those from Adobe, Assimilate, and The Foundry. The new solution will integrate the ioFX into the HP Z Workstations with Xeon processors. The architecture is designed to deliver a platform for digital content creation applications by moving beyond the performance limitations and bottlenecks of traditional systems.

"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, VP 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 multi-threaded 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. With powerful throughput to maximize NVIDIA GPU processing, the ioFX will slash application wait times in HP Z workstations to accelerate both the hardware and software essential to professional digital content creation.

NAB Show attendees saw the ioFX in action at a number of Fusion-io software and hardware Technology Alliance Program member booths.