HP Introduced the Most Powerful Workstation for Machine Learning

HP recently unveiled a set of industry-leading machine learning solutions, including the HP Z8, the world’s most powerful workstation for ML development.

Z Workstations, with new NVIDIA technology, are ideal for local processing at the edge of the network giving developers more control, better performance and added security over cloud-based solutions. The use of workstations for machine learning development is the gateway to automating workflows in areas such as facial identification, sentiment analysis, fraud detection and predictive analytics.

As machine learning algorithms advance and data sets grow, the platform of choice for ML development is local processing at the edge of the network. A powerful workstation can be more cost effective than the cloud for creating complex models with mountains of data. In addition, machine learning at the edge gives ML developers more control, better performance and added security, leading to faster results.

Prior to this generation of Z Desktop Workstations, limited power budgets prevented users from packing their machines with enough high-performance storage such as Z Turbo Drive, memory, graphics, and processing to train the model with significant amounts of data to achieve high confidence levels. In order to bring all that power to bear most efficiently on solution creation, the HP ML Developers Portal now provides state-of-the-art tools, such as curated software stacks, as well as support for NVIDIA GPU Cloud.

The security features of Z Workstations is another plus for developers who demand the protection of IP and private data. Users can protect against the evolving malware threats with self-healing, hardware-enforced, and manageable security solutions. Finally, HP is extending its Device as a Service offering to ML solutions. HP DaaS is a multi-OS service model that simplifies how commercial organizations equip users with the right hardware, support and lifecycle services to get the job done.