Greg Corke, Author at DEVELOP3D

NextComputing offers Intel Xeon E5 v3 in luggable workstations

Posted by Greg Corke - September 10, 2014

Want 36 CPU cores in a ‘mobile’ workstation? You got it! If you need to take your high-end CAD/CAM/CAE workstation on the road but are fed up with Styrofoam packaging…

Fujitsu unveils Haswell Xeon E5 v3 Celsius M740 and R940 workstations

Posted by Greg Corke - October 6, 2014

The new Fujitsu Celsius M740 and R940 (centre and centre right) join the mobile Celsius H730, the rack C620 and single CPU W530 (centre left) Today, Fujitsu became the final…

@Xi offers huge choice with new MTower workstations

Posted by Greg Corke - October 7, 2014

California-based @Xi Computer Corporation has revamped its entire workstation line up. The company’s updated ‘MTower’ workstations boast new CPUs, including the new Intel ‘Haswell’ Xeon E5-2600 v3 and select Intel…

Ansys Fluent CFD software scaled to 36,000 cores

Posted by Greg Corke - November 19, 2014

Internal combustion engine modelled using Ansys Fluent Ansys and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) have scaled Ansys Fluent, the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software, to a whopping 36,000…

Fujitsu Forum 2014: supporting 16 CAD users with a single workstation and HPC for SMEs

Posted by Greg Corke - November 25, 2014

The Fujitsu virtual Vespa From desktops and clusters to virtualisation and Vespas, the show floor at last week’s Fujitsu Forum in Munich offered plenty for design and engineering firms to…

Skanska to develop first commercial 3D concrete printer

Posted by Greg Corke - November 26, 2014

The 3D printer is able to make things which cannot be manufactured by conventional processes. Skanska is leading an 18-month programme to develop the world’s first commercial concrete printing robot.…

New Lenovo ThinkPad W550s claimed to have best battery life of any mobile workstation

Posted by Greg Corke - December 2, 2014

It has the best battery life of any mobile workstation, says Lenovo of its new ThinkPad W550s, which it launched at Autodesk University today. The slimline laptop, which is said…

AMD unveils new aggressive pricing for FirePro W-Series GPUs

Posted by Greg Corke - December 9, 2014

The AMD FirePro W8100 offers graphics and compute on a single GPU AMD has cut the price of its recently released FirePro W-Series GPUs, the most dramatic being the high-end…

HP introduces ultra high-definition and curved displays

Posted by Greg Corke - January 5, 2015

The HP Z27s features a 3,840 x 2,160 resolution, 27-inch diagonal display HP has added three ultra high-definition models to its family of Z displays – the 4K HP Z27s…

Samsung targets mobile CAD users with Portable SSD T1

Posted by Greg Corke - January 6, 2015

Here’s an interesting new development for CAD on the go – a portable USB 3.0 solid state drive (SSD) from Samsung which is being pitched as a high-speed and durable…