Greg Corke, Author at DEVELOP3D

Dell wipes the slate clean with brand new design for its Xeon E5-2600 Precision workstations

Posted by Greg Corke - April 23, 2012

Dell’s new workstation family (from left to right) the Precision T7600, Precision T5600, Precision T3600, and Precision T1650. In sunny San Francisco last week Dell pulled back the curtain on…

Xoreax looking to harness idle networked compute resources for simulation and rendering

Posted by Greg Corke - May 14, 2012

Render job in Maya spread across multiple PCs (agents) across a network Most computers only use a fraction of their CPU resources, around 10-20% on a typical office PC according…

SuperMicro takes GPU compute to new levels with Nvidia Maximus-enabled SuperWorkstation 7047GR-TRF

Posted by Greg Corke - May 15, 2012

Workstation by name, GPU compute server by nature: the SuperWorkstation 7047GR-TRF features an incredible four Nvidia Tesla C2075 GPUs, perfect for iRay enabled rendering applications. It may be a workstation…

Lenovo slims down entry-level workstation with ThinkStation E31 Small Form Factor

Posted by Greg Corke - May 16, 2012

ThinkStation E31 SFF: workstation class technology in a small form factor. If you’re struggling to work out where on Earth you’d put the colossus of a machine that is the…

WS launches new Ivy Bridge mobile workstations

Posted by Greg Corke - June 1, 2012

The WS-M1550 features a 15.6-inch screen and a full width backlit keyboard Workstation Specialists (WS) has taken the lead on the likes of Dell, HP and Lenovo by releasing two…

HP brings Intel Ivy Bridge to its mobile and entry-level desktop workstations – Z220 and EliteBook W

Posted by Greg Corke - June 8, 2012

The 14-inch mobile workstation is back: with the EliteBook 8470w HP is hoping to catch the eyes of designers and engineers who travel – though with entry-level AMD FirePro M2000…

CFD without mesh generation and pre-processing

Posted by Greg Corke - June 11, 2012

Here’s an interesting idea – Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) without the time consuming mesh generation and pre-processing. This is the idea behind a new CFD tool from Italian firm, Karalit…

Dell offers free workstations – made out of, um, card and sticky back plastic

Posted by Greg Corke - June 12, 2012

Dell’s new Precision workstations are now available flat packed Who needs a powerful Xeon workstation when you can make your own for free – Blue Peter style out of paper,…

T-Platforms launches the T-Mini P, a deskside mini cluster for CAE and rendering

Posted by Greg Corke - June 18, 2012

The rear of an 8 module T-Mini P, complete with interconnect cables Here’s something that will make light work out of complex CAE simulations (and keep your feet warm during…

Intel introduces the Xeon Phi: a CPU co-processor primed to accelerate CAE solvers

Posted by Greg Corke - June 19, 2012

It may look like a GPU compute card, but the Intel Xeon Phi actually contains over 500 CPU cores, heralding the future of Intel’s Many Integrated Core Architecture (Intel MIC…