Free UK trial to test out remote delivery of CAD applications
If you’re a CAD user or developer and want to dip your toes into remote CAD on demand you may well be interested in a free trial being held by…
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Greg Corke
Greg Corke is DEVELOP3D’s Managing Editor and resident workstation specialist. There’s nothing he likes more than putting the latest kit through its paces in 3D design, visualisation and simulation tools… well, there’s always travel, cooking, music and Arsenal as well.
HP Z Turbo Drive: workstation-class PCIe SSDs go mainstream
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…
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AMD offering 50% off FirePro W9100, W8000 and W7000 for one off company purchases
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…
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Free deep dive guide into 3D graphics for virtual desktops
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…
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Supercharge your workstation with an OCZ RevoDrive 350 SSD
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…
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Dell Precision M3800: materials R&D for the world’s thinnest mobile workstation
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…
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Intel Core i7-4790K promises big performance boost for CAD
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…
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OpenCL support added to NX Nastran – simulation with a GPU
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…
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AMD FirePro W8100: 3D graphics and compute in one card
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…
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Try CAD (SolidWorks) in the cloud with Nvidia GRID Test drive
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…
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