Rendering: Hardware
From laptop to desktop, render node to render farm, Greg Corke gives a back to basics guide to buying hardware for rendering
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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.
Samsung targets users of CAD and CAE software with new NVMe 950 PRO SSD
Samsung has launched the 950 PRO, its first mainstream Solid State Drive (SSD) that is based on the NVMe standard, a PCIe-based storage protocol that is specifically optimised for SSDs.…
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AMD unveils ‘world’s first hardware-based virtualised GPU’
To date, the only picture of the AMD Multiuser GPU is of a single height card. AMD has made its long awaited entrance to graphics virtualisation with what it describes…
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Winner of Dell Precision workstation with AMD FirePro graphics
The winner of the AMD FirePro / Dell Precision workstation competition has been drawn out of a virtual hat. Congratulations go to John Dunten, design draftsman at Gagemaker, a Texas-based…
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SolidWorks Online Edition unveiled – run CAD on any device
SolidWorks CEO Gian Paulo Bassi showing SolidWorks on a MacBook Forget your powerful CAD workstation, soon you will be able to run SolidWorks 2016 on virtually any device with a…
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HP launches Skylake-based HP Z240 entry-level workstation
The entry-level HP Z240 is available in two form factors HP has unveiled its first Intel ‘Skylake’ workstation, the Z240, which is available in both tower and Small Form Factor…
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Dell introduces new ‘Skylake’ entry-level desktop workstations
The Dell Precision Tower 3420 (left) and Tower 3620 (right) In the second of two workstation announcements today, Dell has released details of its new entry-level desktop workstations, the Dell…
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Dell slims down Precision mobile workstations for Intel Skylake
The new slimline Dell Precision 15 5510, a replacement for the Precision M3800 Dell has completely re-designed its entire family of mobile workstations, featuring a thinner and lighter design and…
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MSI launches 17-inch ‘Skylake’ mobile workstation with RAID 0 NVMe PCIe SSDs
MSI is the latest manufacturer to unveil a mobile workstation based on Intel’s 6th Generation (Skylake) Core-i7 and Xeon processors. The 17.3-inch MSI WT72 mobile workstation features a choice of…
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Intel unveils Skylake Xeon E3-1200 v5 CPUs for entry-level CAD workstations
Intel has released details of its new ‘Skylake’ Xeon E3-1200 v5 processors that will soon appear in entry-level workstations such as the recently announced HP Z240 and Dell Precision Tower…
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