To meet today's computing demands a new era of high performance computing has begun, and HP is leading the industry with second-generation Itanium 2-based servers. Co-developed by HP and Intel, the revolutionary Intel Itanium processor family architecture reduces platform costs and enables higher performance and scalability. Up to two times faster than its predecessor, HP Itanium 2-based systems are easily outpacing the performance of IA-32 and classic RISC-based systems. HP Itanium 2-based servers provide more power, more applications, additional features and a broader range of solutions.The HP Server rx5670, powered by up to four Intel Itanium 2 processors, improves price/performance in enterprise HP-UX, Linux or Windows environments. HP is providing customers with the most complete Itanium-based solution from the most experienced vendor of Itanium-based systems in the industry. The rx5670 empowers technical computing users to process more transactions, do more in-depth analysis, run complex models faster and render high-quality images with optimized performance. Commercial computing users will run their applications with superior performance, decreased costs and reduced complexity.