HP 820 Tower - RED EDITION

[Jarred Land]

We have teamed up with HP, NVIDIA and ADOBE and are releasing some uber Liquid Cooled HP RED Z820 workstations next month. HP has built custom dual RED MAG card readers into the front with internal RED ROCKET acceleration card(s) plus tuned ADOBE CS6 suite installations... These things scream.


These will be sold through HP professional resellers such as ProMax and TEKSERVE starting in July. These are being shown next week at the ADOBE roadshow touring the country, some of you might of seen and used the prototypes at REDUCATION this last week.


There will be a builder to add whatever you want. RED ROCKET, CS6, and all drivers etc are pre-installed, starting around $10,000.

Sample Build :

HP Z820 (16) 3.21GHz Cores, Liquid Cooled, 32GB 1600MHz Quad Channel Memory, Nvidia Quadro 5000 GPU, RED ROCKET, (1) Internal BluRay/REDMAG Reader, 300GB, 2.5" 10K SAS 6Gb Boot Drive, HP 3-3-3 Global Warranty on HP Components (does not have: Any RAID volume - these need to be added by TEKSERVE or ProMAX)

 

[Ketch Rossi]

When you team up, with Apple give me a cal, I'll order a squadron of them...

 

[Pawel Achtel]

Very nice, thanks Jarred for heads up. Looks great.

 

[Jarred Land]

When you team up, with Apple give me a cal, I'll order a squadron of them...

heh heh heh... Word on the street is that Apple has left the pro tower game for at least another year, if not forever.

Unfortunately, I think it is time to either wait and painfully milk everything you can out of that 5 year old mac pro tower, or move on to the dark side for your heavy lifting needs.

HP is eager to make some new friends as shown by there unprecedented support to the professionals that really kicked off with their mega booth at NAB. You would be surprised at just who has switched to these.. and just looking at the fact that two legendary pro mac system builders both PROMAX and TEKSERVE have jumped into the game it is very telling.

 

[Lee Saxon]

Jarred you have stoked the fires of making me want to start an Apple-bashing flamewar. I will be strong. For now.

 

[luigivaltulini]

When you team up, with Apple give me a cal, I'll order a squadron of them...

EHEHE Ketch,
Interesting this hp z820... I like ... but with OSX

 

[Jarred Land]

Jarred you have stoked the fires of making me want to start an Apple-bashing flamewar. I will be strong. For now.

I am starting to realize that Apple has a new place.. a very good place, handeling the majority of our non-professional daily tasks like email etc. That is the market they have switched over to go after, and there is no problem with that. I still use apple stuff for the light stuff.. it is much, much better at that than windows. But the heavy stuff.. you can't even compare the 2 anymore.

And remember we have ADOBE that works on both platforms seamlessly. .. a company that is not sitting still watching the grass grow. They have been killing it lately. All of their products are now better than Apple's professional software products. Hell.. don't listen to me.. just look around. The mighty mighty Final Cut Pro User group CHANGED ITS NAME @#!@#!# !! to the Creative Pro User Group.. and is now sponsored by ADOBE. Enough said.

http://www.studiodaily.com/2012/01/fcpug-changes-name-to-creative-pro-users-group/

 

[Sergio Perez]

Very happy for Red and HP, not so happy as a Mac centric guy who is on a Mac Red workflow... Why don't we see this love from Apple to Red? At the beginning, with the Final Cut pro Integration, the development of redcine X for mac, all this just looked like a match made in heaven. What sort of Facebook petition or noise do we need to make for Apple to start listening and working with you guys?

Anyway, great news and I would surely go for this computer- its a recommended, finely tuned workstation with Red's seal of approval... What more could a Red user want? But damn it feels sad to be a Mac guy right now...

 

[Ketch Rossi]

heh heh heh... Word on the street is that Apple has left the pro tower game for at least another year, if not forever.

Unfortunately, I think it is time to either wait and painfully milk everything you can out of that 5 year old mac pro tower, or move on to the dark side for your heavy lifting needs.

HP is eager to make some new friends as shown by there unprecedented support to the professionals that really kicked off with their mega booth at NAB. You would be surprised at just who has switched to these.. and just looking at the fact that two legendary pro mac system builders both PROMAX and TEKSERVE have jumped into the game it is very telling.

Sad but true...


Well, I guess at the end if it comes to it, it could just be that this Towers be used ONLY for R3D work... We'll see.


But either way, is truly great that you guys are getting involved in pushing the Post forward in the actual Hardware as well.

 

[Jarred Land]

Yes ketch.. just for the heavy lifting. I have started to see DIT's move over to Windows machines.. the best DITs. It is really transparent when you are in the actual programs.. you would never know what os you are in, the windows machine is just way faster. You can hide it under the desk if you don't want anyone to know

 

[Kwan Khan]

Madness...

It is very hard for me to switch from Mac to PC but it tell us not to waste time.
This is personal challenge...

it's a heck of a machine. It's great for 3D rendering as well

 

[J Taylor]

where is the hackintosh version? hehe

 

[Corey Culp]

where is the hackintosh version? hehe

Beat me by 3 minutes.

 

[Johnathan Guest]

One more item to add to my shopping list that keeps growing

 

[Bastien Tribalat]

I'm an Apple user, but I think this tower looks AMAZING ! Well done ! If I had the bucks, I'll order one right now !

 

[Bill Christie]

Hey Jarred,

Great work on the hardware. Looking forward to seeing it in action. But from your earlier statements about Apple and the pro market, are you no longer developing for the Apple based ecosystem? Specifically, are there efforts for Drivers for FCPX still or is that a market that RED is not getting into?

 

[Jarred Land]

Hey Jarred,

Great work on the hardware. Looking forward to seeing it in action. But from your earlier statements about Apple and the pro market, are you no longer developing for the Apple based ecosystem? Specifically, are there efforts for Drivers for FCPX still or is that a market that RED is not getting into?

We will support Apple as long as they are willing.. remember in the Apple world Apple calls 100% of the shots on what works in FCPX.. we have no control over that.

 

[John Marchant]

Any word on the real world measured performance in CS6? ie. How do 5k R3D's play, and at what settings? How will it stand up to upcoming 6k material? I'm itching for the day that I can buy a straightforward computer like this that will cut full res R3D without any ifs and buts... just like any old computer will currently cut compressed HD in prores or dnxhd.

 

[Jarred Land]

Any word on the real world measured performance in CS6? ie. How do 5k R3D's play, and at what settings? How will it stand up to upcoming 6k material? I'm itching for the day that I can buy a straightforward computer like this that will cut full res R3D without any ifs and buts... just like any old computer will currently cut compressed HD in prores or dnxhd.

heh heh heh don't worry.. We are working very close with HP and Adobe to make sure the 6K Dragon is not muzzled when it arrives..

 

[Sergio Perez]

We will support Apple as long as they are willing.. remember in the Apple world Apple calls 100% of the shots on what works in FCPX.. we have no control over that.

The problem is how can Apple call the shots and say they will implement native r3d without talking and working with the guys that invented it and are making the cameras that use it? This is what troubles me about Final Cut and why I switched to Adobe... However, I haven't switched hardware yet because it just works as amazing as when I bought into the mac platform 10 years ago. This HP workstation is the first really good reason for a switch... But that statement from Cook about the 2013 Macpro makes me wait for their hand before further switching...