Dell launches new Xeon SP tower workstation

Dell has announced the Precision 7920 Tower, a workstation PC powered by Intel's Xeon processors. The Xeon processor used is the Xeon Scalable Processor codenamed Skylake-SP, announced by Intel recently Become.

However, at the moment only SKUs for data centers have been announced, and SKUs for workstations have not been announced. For this reason, the announcement from Dell was also stated only as "Xeon processor", and details (such as which SKU is installed) were not told. It will be shipped after waiting for Intel's official announcement. In addition, according to Dell, two products, a dual socket and a single socket, will be lined up, and customers will be able to choose at the time of CTO.

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The biggest feature of the Precision 7920 Tower is its storage scalability. Accessible from the front, there are four 3.5-inch bays for SATA or PCI Express connectivity, one 5-inch bay and one bay for a slim optical drive, which Dell calls the Slim Bay. The 3.5-inch bay is also equipped with a docking module for M.2 NVMe storage, in which case it can be connected to the system via PCI Express.

Audio option that fits in a 5-inch bay Expansion card with M.2 storage that fits in a PCI Express slot, Expansion card with M.2 storage that fits in a 2-piece version PCI Express slot, Bay option that fits in a 4-piece version 3.5-inch bay M. Can be used in a 2-storage enclosure 3.5-inch bay case

In addition, an expansion card that installs M.2 NVMe storage is available in the PCI Express slot, and a 2-module version or a 4-module version are available. be. Since each NVMe storage is connected with x4, the 4 module version is an x16 PCI Express expansion card. It is also compatible with the NVMe RAID function by software provided by Intel, so it can be used in a RAID configuration. According to Dell, a total of 48TB of storage can be configured using front storage modules, internal cards, and more.

Smart card option

In addition, security is also taken into account, and you can choose a key to lock the storage bay as an option, or install a smart card reader instead of an optical drive in the slim bay and use a smart card. It will be possible to allow only users who have it to log in.

The most important graphics card, you can install up to 3 PCI Express x16 cards, either NVIDIA's Quadro series or AMD's Radeon Pro. For Quadro, it can support Quadro GP100, which is the highest SKU at the moment, and for AMD, it can support Radeon Pro WX9100 or Radeon Pro SSG.

In addition, Dell has released three products, Precision 5820 Tower, Precision 7820 Tower, and Precision 7920 Rack, but they were not exhibited at SIGGRAPH 2017 this time (Precision 7820 Tower will be described later). Prices have not been disclosed at this time, but both products will be available in the United States on October 3rd at dell.com.