Greg Corke, Author at DEVELOP3D

AMD lifts lid on FIrePro W9000, its new gen Southern Islands professional graphics card

Posted by Greg Corke - June 27, 2012

AMD has previewed its new high-end workstation graphics card, the FirePro W9000, which is based on its ‘Southern Islands’ GPU architecture. With 6GB RAM and 6 mini DisplayPort, the W9000…

AMD launches new mobile FirePro GPUs – available inside HP Elitebook mobile workstations

Posted by Greg Corke - June 27, 2012

The HP Elitebook 8570w offers a choice of new AMD FirePro GPUs – the M2000 or M4000 AMD has released details of its new mobile FirePro professional GPUs – the…

FARO introduces high accuracy, value portable CMM

Posted by Greg Corke - July 3, 2012

Need a six-axis portable measurement arm for basic measurements in inspection, reverse engineering and CAD-to-part analysis? The ‘Prime’ could be the answer. This new addition to Faro’s FaroArm product line…

Dell offers four 3D CAD workstations in one

Posted by Greg Corke - July 4, 2012

Forget desktop workstations, Dell’s virtualized 2U rack workstation enables up to four CAD users to work remotely from a single machine. The Dell Precision R5500 is said to be the…

Surphaser and Rapidform team up for reverse engineering

Posted by Greg Corke - July 4, 2012

C2 wing hinge scanned with a Surphaser 25HSX and reverse engineered in Rapidform XOR Surphaser is to offer a complete reverse engineering solution that combines its mid- and long-range 3D…

Laser scanning ensures good fit for Team GB

Posted by Greg Corke - July 6, 2012

Team GB cycle helmets feature a dual shell design, comprising an inner shell, which fits closely to the athlete’s head, and an outer shell that is shaped for optimum performance…

Boston introduces dual Xeon Nvidia Maximus workstation

Posted by Greg Corke - July 9, 2012

Boston’s new midi-tower workstation, The Boston Venom 2300-7T, features up to two 8-core Xeon E5-2600 series processors, an Nvidia Quadro GPU, an Nvidia Tesla GPU compute card and up to…

Dell unveils ‘Ivy Bridge’ Precision M4700 and M6700 mobile workstations

Posted by Greg Corke - July 24, 2012

Dell embraces 3D with an optional Nvidia 3D Vision Pro module and 3D display on offer in its new Precision M6700 mobile workstation. Dell has refreshed its Precision mobile workstation…

MSC Software expands GPU-accelerated simulation tools

Posted by Greg Corke - July 26, 2012

MSC Software Marc 2012 can now be accelerated by Nvidia Tesla GPUs, offering a performance increase ranging from two to six times. The 2012 release of Marc, the general-purpose, advanced…

SIGGRAPH 2012 #1: OpenGL 4.3 compute shaders to run simulation code in the graphics pipeline

Posted by Greg Corke - August 6, 2012

With the introduction of compute shaders to OpenGL 4.3 at SIGGRAPH 2012 today, Neil Trevett, president of the Khronos Group, believes the cross-platform graphics API is now more advanced than…