Greg Corke, Author at DEVELOP3D

HP Z Turbo Drive: workstation-class PCIe SSDs go mainstream

Posted by Greg Corke - April 10, 2014

The HP Z Turbo Drive herald the arrival of PCI Express SSD storage in mainstream workstations HP is changing the face of mainstream workstation storage by offering a new PCI…

AMD offering 50% off FirePro W9100, W8000 and W7000 for one off company purchases

Posted by Greg Corke - April 17, 2014

Qualfying companies can get their hands on a single ultra high-end FirePro W9100 for the crazy price of £1,200 The AMD FirePro W9100 may have only been launched a week…

Free deep dive guide into 3D graphics for virtual desktops

Posted by Greg Corke - April 24, 2014

The report describes five different 3D graphics for virtual desktop concepts in detail. The picture above gives an overview of the concepts. TeamRGE, a collective of Remote Graphics Experts, has…

Supercharge your workstation with an OCZ RevoDrive 350 SSD

Posted by Greg Corke - April 25, 2014

Forget SATA: the future of workstation storage is coming from PCI Express OCZ’s RevoDrive 350 is a new workstation-class Solid State Drive (SSD) that uses the PCI Express interface instead…

Dell Precision M3800: materials R&D for the world’s thinnest mobile workstation

Posted by Greg Corke - May 27, 2014

The Dell M3800 achieves its soft touch finish with a 0.5mm layer of silicone overmoulded on top of a lightweight magnesium frame At DEVELOP3D, we’re big fans of the ultra…

Intel Core i7-4790K promises big performance boost for CAD

Posted by Greg Corke - June 3, 2014

Intel’s new unlocked 4th gen Intel Core processor codenamed ‘Devil’s Canyon’ Intel’s new ‘Haswell’-based Core i7 desktop processor has broken the 4GHz barrier, a speed that was only previously achievable…

OpenCL support added to NX Nastran – simulation with a GPU

Posted by Greg Corke - June 20, 2014

Performance benefits of a GPU over 24 CPU cores can be significant Siemens has added OpenCL (Open Compute Language) support to NX Nastran in the 9.1 release of its integrated…

AMD FirePro W8100: 3D graphics and compute in one card

Posted by Greg Corke - June 23, 2014

The AMD FirePro W8100, which features 8GB GDDR5 memory, can be used for high-end 3D graphics and GPU compute. AMD has unveiled the FirePro W8100, an 8GB professional GPU for…

Try CAD (SolidWorks) in the cloud with Nvidia GRID Test drive

Posted by Greg Corke - June 23, 2014

The Nvidia GRID Test Drive virtual desktop Nvidia has launched the GRID Test Drive, a simple and secure way to test out your very own graphics-accelerated virtual desktop – CAD…

Samsung focuses on endurance for new generation SSDs

Posted by Greg Corke - July 1, 2014

The Samsung SSD 850 PRO comes with a whopping 10 year warranty and is designed to write up to 40GB per day With performance of its SATA-based Solid State Drives…