Vancouver Film School (VFS), Canada’s post-secondary entertainment arts institution, has deployed 775 HP Z420 Workstations.
Students will use the workstations in the animation, film, game design, programming, digital design and foundation programs. VFS uses approximately 300 HP Z420 Workstations throughout classrooms in its Animation & Visual Effects department alone.
“As the workstation provider for most of the major film and animation studios, HP understands the unique demands of the industry and those training to bring us the next indie great or big-screen blockbuster film,” said Jeff Wood, vice president, Worldwide Product Management, Commercial Solutions Business Unit, HP.
The HP Z420 includes up to eight processing cores using the latest Intel Xeon processor E5-1600 v2 and E5-2600 v2 product families, providing up to 64 GB of ECC memory and up to 12 TB of high-speed storage.
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