Workstations

HP Workstation Event: Z Series take serviceability to new levels

Posted by Greg Corke - March 30, 2009

#4: It’s been a frustrating few days for me. Not only because I had to leave sunny LA at the…

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Hardware

PNY Nvidia Quadro FX testing

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 29, 2009

Nvidia recently updated its CAD-focused Quadro FX family of professional graphics cards. Greg Corke put all four cards through their…

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Hardware

Autodesk takes lead in harnessing graphics power for CPU tasks

Posted by Greg Corke - June 24, 2009

Over the past couple of years there’s been an incredible amount of hype surrounding the use of GPUs (Graphics Processing…

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Hardware

The best graphics cards for running Solidworks

Posted by DEVELOP3D - August 14, 2009

When choosing a professional graphics card for SolidWorks bigger is not always better. It depends on the types of models…

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News

Nvidia to take CAD rendering to the Cloud with RealityServer 3.0

Posted by Greg Corke - October 21, 2009

Nvidia and mental images are reaching for the Cloud to offer ray-traced rendering over the web using stacks of GPUs…

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Hardware

InterPro workstations IPW-Ci7X

Posted by Stephen Holmes - April 6, 2010

This powerful six core workstation presents an interesting proposition for rendering and CAD/CAM/CAE users who want multi-core performance from a…

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News

Nvidia launches Fermi-based Quadro graphics cards (plus Quadro 5000 benchmark)

Posted by Greg Corke - July 27, 2010

Nvidia’s new Quadro 5000 features 2.5GB GDDR5 memory It’s been a long time coming, but today at Siggraph 2010 Nvidia…

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News

Siggraph 2010 #1: promises, promises

Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 28, 2010

Nvidia’s new 3D Vision Pro, one of the many new 3D technologies on show The show floor opened Tuesday in…

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News

AMD drives six HD monitors from a single ATI FirePro V9800 graphics card

Posted by Greg Corke - September 9, 2010

Dassault Systèmes has had positive experiences testing Catia V5 and V6 on six screens using an ATI FirePro V9800. Forget…

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News

Ansys uses Nvidia Tesla GPUs to accelerate engineering simulations on the desktop

Posted by Greg Corke - September 21, 2010

Back in May Nvidia told DEVELOP3D that there was going to be some big news later this year regarding some…

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