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How The Muppets film was boosted by GPU chip advances
You may not always be able to trust what you see on screen, but the combination of low-tech puppetry and hi-tech graphics that brings Fozzie, Miss Piggy and the rest of the gang back to life helped all those involved live up to their leading frog's standards.
PLM Innovation : February 22 1 23 Munich Germany
The PLM Innovation Congress is Europe's only independent and technology agnostic PLM event. Bringing together 300 senior end-users, thought leaders and select PLM vendors, we aim to leverage the collective wealth of knowledge and experience to identify and encourage best practice. The combination of a world class speaker roster, cross-industry case studies, targeted Think-Tanks and pre-qualified networking opportunities make this Europe's must attend PLM gathering.
Intel i7 3820 released, spiritual successor to i7 920; Ivy Bridge delayed until June
The Core i7 3820 is the first sub-$500 chip to be released for the LGA2011 socket, the same socket used by Core i7 Extreme 3980X and 3860X, the i7 3930K, and the Xeon E5 server processors. Compared to its 6- and 8-core compatriots, the 3820 is “only” a quad-core, but it retains the same on-die 4x 64-bit DDR3 controller, 40 PCIe v3 channels, and dual-link QPI. There’s 10MB of L3 cache, too, and the base clock rate is 3.6GHz. The price? A miraculous $285. Yet again, it doesn’t look good for AMD’s top-of-the-line FX-8150, which is priced around the same point and yet significantly slower than Intel’s offerings.
Opteron 6200 Family will get updates
The series of processors AMD Opteron 6200 (Interlagos) , introduced in November last year, will be updated with Opteron models 6208, 6224, 6242, 6266 HE, 6280 and 6286 SE.
NVIDIA ends 2012 at $4 billion on record sales for professional GPUs
NVIDIA announces Q4 and annual results with a record year for professional GPUs. Professional GPUs hit a record last year and the company expects Quadro and Tesla sales to reach another record in the coming year.
Press Releases
22/02/2012 - Up-to-date from anywhere: Aucotec
Save resources and time via app in the engineering cloud
17/02/2012 - SGI's Opteron-Based ICE System Is Tops in MPI Benchmark
FREMONT, Calif., Feb. 15 — SGI (NASDAQ: SGI), the trusted leader in technical computing, announced today that its SGI ICE 8400 high performance compute (HPC) system with AMD Opteron™ 6200 processors achieved the top performance number for 64-, 32-, 16-, 8-, and 4-socket configurations for the SPEC MPIL2007 benchmark. The SPEC MPI2007 benchmark is SPEC's "benchmark suite for evaluating MPI-parallel, floating point, compute intensive performance across a wide range of cluster and SMP hardware," according to the SPEC web site, http://www.spec.org/mpi2007.
17/02/2012 - 14 Academy Award-Nominated Movies: One Thing in Common
Digital Artists Worldwide Used Autodesk Digital Entertainment Creation Software to Create 2011’s Most Celebrated Movies
16/02/2012 - Autodesk Brings LEGO Brickley to Life Digitally with 3D Instructions
Autodesk Inventor Publisher Bridges Physical, Digital for 21st Century Play Experience
16/02/2012 - NVIDIA Reports Financial Results for Annual and Fourth Quarter Fiscal 2012
Revenue for the year increased 12.8 percent over fiscal 2011 to $4.00 billion.
Reports
Handling 3D Models Easily : Hardware Focus on 3D Mice
CADplace visited with 3Dconnexion at the Autodesk Digital Prototyping Forum where we talked about their 3D mice and the launch of their new product.
123D Catch Video Demonstration by Autodesk
123D Catch is a cloud-based application to create 3D geometry from photographs. Autodesk product manager, Dominique Pouliquen, provided a personal demonstration for the CADplace cameras. You can see the examples and learn the basics of 123D Catch in just a couple of minutes.
Virtual Reality Symposium : Heidelberg
Heidelberg Germany, CADplace Germany organized a symposium on virtual reality at the Heidelberg SRH University. The key technology companies for complete VR solutions participated. Visitors attended the day-long presentations on VR problems & solutions and also were able to see the hardware, software, and complete solutions live and in person.
New NVIDIA Quadro and Tesla GPUs used for rendering, ray-tracing and simulations showing the promise of GPU computing
NVIDIA is a veteran of the Imagina Salon in Monaco and this year the company showed the real promise of high-performance graphics, the benefits of parallel computing on GPUs, and the realism of professional 3D stereo vision.
Imagina : 3D Simulation and Virtual Technology Event
Imagina is an international event dedicated to several important industries in which 3D, simulation, visualization, and virtualization technologies play an important role in design, development, deployment, production, training, and service-delivery. Today Imagina serves the areas of industry, engineering, architecture, and urban planning. In February 2012 the Fair will address special topics of augmented reality and mobility.
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