New Lenovo ThinkStations combine Nehalem, Tesla
updated 12:50 pm EDT, Tue March 24, 2009
ThinkStation S20, D20
Lenovo has debuted two new workstation PCs, the ThinkStation S20 and D20. The computers are intended for professional purposes such as CAD and graphics, and can be configured with either 5500- or W3500-series Xeon CPUs based on Intel's Nehalem platform. Buyers can optionally include NVIDIA's Tesla C1060 GPU, said to "dramatically" boost calculation speeds through parallel processing.
Primary graphics are supplied through either ATI FirePro or NVIDIA Quadro cards. The machines are nevertheless said to be Energy Star 5.0 compliant, and 50 percent composed of recycled materials. Windows Vista is installed as the default operating system, but both computers are compatible with RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.2. The S20 and D20 should ship by the end of March, at beginning costs of $1,070 and $1,550.
