Greg Corke, Author at DEVELOP3D

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…

AMD gets some GPU compute action with OpenCL compliant release of Abaqus 6.11

Posted by Greg Corke - September 6, 2011

With the new OpenCL compliant release, structural and multiphysics simulations in Abaqus 6.11 can now been accelerated using a wide range of non-proprietary hardware platforms Back in May 2011 Nvidia…

Dimension 3D Printing challenges students in Extreme Redesign contest

Posted by Greg Corke - September 9, 2011

Here’s a nice competition for budding designers. Dimension 3D printing from Stratasys is holding its eighth annual Extreme Redesign 3D Printing Challenge whereby it encourages students to submit an innovative…

Solid State Drives (SSDs) starting to come of age in mobile workstations

Posted by Greg Corke - September 13, 2011

Dell Precision M6600: the first mobile workstation to feature 512GB SSDs Solid State Drives (SSDs) are now seriously rivalling mechanical drives in the mobile workstation space. Dell reckons it’s the…

Nvidia Maximus looks to bring order to GPU compute workflows for simulation and rendering

Posted by Greg Corke - November 14, 2011

Nvidia Maximus consists of a Quadro graphics card and a Tesla GPU compute board, tied together by a unified driver in a certified Nvidia Maximus workstation. Ecce Maximus (behold Maximus),…

AMD re-defines entry-level professional 3D graphics with AMD FirePro V4900

Posted by Greg Corke - November 15, 2011

The AMD FirePro V4900 may come in a small package, but is still capable of driving up to six displays thanks to AMD Eyefinity and DisplayPort 1.2 technology The AMD…