HP Z Series Workstation
HP's new Z Series workstations not only promise incredible performance, but offer customers new levels of serviceability. Greg Corke gives his first impressions
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Greg Corke
Greg Corke is DEVELOP3D’s Managing Editor and resident workstation specialist. There’s nothing he likes more than putting the latest kit through its paces in 3D design, visualisation and simulation tools… well, there’s always travel, cooking, music and Arsenal as well.
Students these days don’t know they’re born – but they’re rather clever
When I was an engineering student back in the early nineties, even though computers and CAD were widespread in industry and we were taught CAD (albeit at a very basic…
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Autodesk takes lead in harnessing graphics power for CPU tasks
Over the past couple of years there’s been an incredible amount of hype surrounding the use of GPUs (Graphics Processing Units) to perform computationally intensive tasks usually carried out by…
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How to buy a professional graphics card for SolidWorks 2009
SolidWorks 2009 has one of the most advanced 3D graphics engines in the CAD industry, but what is it that makes it tick, how does RealView affect 3D performance and…
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SpaceClaim shows its hand(s) with regards to multi-touch
SpaceClaim has just posted a video on YouTube that is certain to grab the attention of multi-touch CAD fanatics. The video shows off some cool new multi-touch capabilities that are…
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Do graphics cards hold the secret to photorealistic real time rendering?
Last week I saw a very slick demo of a brand new rendering, animation and composition package called MachStudio Pro from a relatively new company called studioGPU. The name of…
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AMD takes the fight to Nvidia at the high-end of professional graphics
For years AMD (and before it ATI) has been happy to exist only in the mainstream professional graphics market, but now the company has taken the fight to Nvidia at…
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Broadband rates not up to speed
Moving processor intensive CAE operations to The Cloud is no use whatsoever if our broadband connection is inconsistent. Image Copyright P R Yakin – Fotolia.com The findings in this latest…
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Spatial to help CAD/CAM/CAE software developers take advantage of multiple CPU cores
Applications running Spatial’s new ACIS thread technology should thrive on multi-core workstations, such as this beast of a machine from HP, the Xeon 5500 Series-based Z800 This is an interesting…
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Apple iPhone goes 3D with NaviCAD
Here’s a nice little story from Josh over at SolidSmack.com. He’s been trying out the first 3D viewer app for the Apple iPhone – NaviCAD 3D – but has had…
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