Greg Corke, Author at DEVELOP3D

Dell unveils ‘Sandy Bridge’ Precision T1600 and re-writes the rules for entry-level wor

Posted by Greg Corke - February 9, 2011

The Precision T1600 – the follow up to the Precision T1500 The definition of ‘entry-level’ appears to be changing as Dell launches the Precision T1600, powered by mid-range professional graphics,…

What exactly do you get out of ‘Labs’ technology?

Posted by Greg Corke - February 9, 2011

Activity on Autodesk’s Labs site had a big increase last year Autodesk’s recent news that its Labs Website has experienced more activity than ever before will come as little surprise…

Sandy Bridge issue resolved at InterPro workstations

Posted by Greg Corke - March 3, 2011

Ever since Intel recalled its 6 Series Express chipsets and Intel Xeon C200 chipsets (because of this issue), we’ve had readers asking us when the replacement mainboards will be available.…

Wise up to warranties

Posted by Greg Corke - March 4, 2011

Computers are amazing machines – until they break down and take weeks to repair, that is. Greg Corke gets wise to warranties and encourages anyone on the look out for…

Egg Bot draws inspiration from old skool pen plotters

Posted by Greg Corke - March 30, 2011

Forget chocolate – real eggs decorated by robot is where it’s at this Easter When I worked as a CAD operator back in the early nineties, we had a pen…

Cryo PC launches water-cooled Xeon workstation

Posted by Greg Corke - March 31, 2011

The Cryo Octane EDP-WS X5680 is a brand new water-cooled workstation. It features two overclocked six core Xeon X5680 processors running at 4.50GHz+ (35% faster than the stock Intel CPU)…

MINI World Rally Championship team uses 3D printing for test and production

Posted by Greg Corke - May 16, 2011

The new MINI John Cooper Works World Rally Car (WRC). I’ve got a bit of a soft spot for MINIs – my first car was a Blue 1985 Austin MINI…

Autodesk to take next step in the automatic creation of 3D models from photographs

Posted by Greg Corke - May 17, 2011

A Nike sneaker recreated as a mesh in Photofly – as previewed at Autodesk University in December 2010 Next Thursday Autodesk is due to update The Photo Scene Editor for…

DEVELOP3D puts new AMD FirePro V5900 graphics card through its paces

Posted by Greg Corke - May 25, 2011

AMD’s FirePro V5900 can deliver exceptional performance in 3D CAD applications when given the chance. Being a journalist is not the glamorous life you may think. I spent most of…

Automakers cut engineering simulation times using GPU-accelerated Abaqus FEA

Posted by Greg Corke - May 25, 2011

Nvidia’s Tesla C2070 sits inside a workstation or server and features 448 CUDA cores and 6GB memory dedicated for GPU compute Two of the largest automakers in Europe are evaluating…