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New Dell Workstations Focus on Serviceability, New Memory Tech

Dell announced several new Precision workstations on Monday, focusing on manageability and a new memory technology that the company promised would virtually eliminate memory errors.

April 23, 2012

Dell announced several new Precision workstations on Monday, focusing on manageability and a new memory technology that the company promised would virtually eliminate memory errors.

Dell announced the Dell T7600, T5600, and T3600 series, using the . Pricing for the T7600 begins as $2,149, while the pricing for the T5600 and T3600 begins at $1,879 and $1,099, respectively.

According to Dell, the new workstations were based on thousands of conversations with customers, who apparently prioritized greater serviceability. All three of the workstations include an externally removeable power supply that can be quickly swapped in and out using a built-in handle. The T7600 also includes a front-accessible, quick release hard drive, designed for customers who create video, or for customers storing sensitive information that must be locked up at the end of the day.

The T7600 can also be converted to a rack-mounted unit, Dell said, allowing customers to remotely access the workstation.

All three of Dell's new workstations at least offer the option of Reliable Memory Technology (RMT), a Dell innovation that seeks to eliminate all memory errors. Normally, error-correction code (ECC) built into DIMMs works to identify and correct most single-bit errors. RMT allows the option of identifying the location of the corrected memory error, and preventing the system from writing to it after a reboot.

The workstations also ship with generation three PCI Express I/O support and up to 512 Gbytes of quad-channel memory.

"We're extremely proud to unveil Dell's new line of workstations that have been completely redesigned based on hundreds of customer conversations," said Kirk Schell, vice president of computing products at Dell, in a statememt. "We know our workstation customers depend on technology to bring their innovations to life, and with these new Dell Precision Tower workstations, we are giving them the tools to provide a competitive edge with the best technology available."

The T7600 ships with up to two E5-2687W 150-watt processors, with 16 cores, a 1,300-watt power supply, Nvidia Maximus graphics technology that offers simultaneous virtualization and rendering, and up to four full x16 graphics slots with the capability of powering up to an Nvidia 6000 graphics card as well as a pair of Nvidia Tesla C2075 coprocessors.

The Dell Precision T5600 also contains up to a pair of Intel Xeon chips, power supply options of either 635 watts or 825 watts, and a paired solution of an Nvidia Quadro 5000 and and Tesla C2075 processor.

The Dell Precision T3600 is oriented around the E5-1600 or E5-2600 family, up to 64 GB of 1600 ECC or non-ECC memory, and either an Nvidia Quadro 6000 or a pair of Nvidia quadro 5000 cards and a Tesla C2075 coprocessor.

Dell also announced the Precision T1650, an entry-level workstation with "next-generation" Xeon processors. Prices were not announced.

Among the applications certified for the new processors are those from Autodesk, Dassault Systemes, PTC, Siemens PLM, Adobe, Avid, Grass Valley, Landmark, Schlumberger, ESRI, Barco and many others, Dell said.