Greg Corke, Author at DEVELOP3D

SPEC/GWPG seeks applications and workloads for proposed workstation performance benchmark

Posted by Greg Corke - January 4, 2012

The Catia viewset used in SPECviewperf 11, could play a role in SPEC’s forthcoming workstation benchmark The Standard Performance Evaluation Corp (SPEC) is seeking help to develop a new workstation…

AMD FirePro V3900 promises plenty for those who want professional CAD certification on a budget

Posted by Greg Corke - February 7, 2012

Despite its diminutive size, the AMD FirePro V3900 should still offer plenty for entry-level CAD users. The battle at the low-end of the professional graphics card market is warming up.…

AMD teams up with PTC to help boost 3D graphics performance in Creo Parametric 2.0

Posted by Greg Corke - April 13, 2012

With Creo 2.0’s new Order Independent Transparency (OIT) setting AMD claims that users can experience 900% faster performance in 3D transparency with AMD FirePro professional graphics cards AMD has spent…

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…