SolidWorks World came to a conclusion yesterday but before it ended, Bernard Charles, President and Chief Executive Officer of Dassault Systemes stopped by the AMD FirePro booth to check out some of the ways to enhance working with SolidWorks using FirePro graphics solutions.
Bernard Charles, President and Chief Executive Officer of Dassault Systemes looking at 3D Stereo and trying to hold a 3D part in his hands
Bernard Charles, President and Chief Executive Officer of Dassault Systemes and Monica Menghini, EVP, Industry, Marketing and Corporate Communications
discussing needs for 3D stereo for industrial designers and engineers.
Bernard Charles, President and Chief Executive Officer of Dassault Systemes pointing to the 6-display Eyefinity set-up and amazed by the amount of data being displayed rotating in real time with full shadow, reflection and rendering effects. We had a full airplane in SolidWorks shown on a 6-display Eyefinity.
Antoine Reymond presenting to Bernard Charles, President and Chief Executive Officer of Dassault Systemes and Monica Menghini, EVP, Industry, Marketing and Corporate Communications the value of graphics and small form factors in the hands of all manufacturing engineers for managing and monitoring work-in-process on a factory floor. Bernard was just amazed of the level of graphics and ability to port a full DS product such as 3DVIA Composer on a tablet.
More photos of the AMD FirePro Booth #207 at SolidWorks World 2012. These are from the pre-conference receptions before the crowds fill the space (anticipated to be the biggest SWW ever at 5,600 attendees).
SolidWorks World 2012 is coming up Feb 12-15, 2012 in San Diego. The AMD FirePro team will again have a strong presence reflecting the long-standing collaboration and optimization with SolidWorks/Dassualt Systemes.
On display in Booth #207, AMD FirePro engineers will present demos of FirePro graphic cards for entry to high-end users, mobile workstations, Eyefinity and 3DVIA Composer.
In Break Out Session #4080 on Tuesday, February 14, 10:30 AM, Oliver Zegdoun will present: “Tuning Your Workstation to Get the Best Out of SolidWorks”
This waterfall demo video from SC11 is running on the recently announced Tyan blade server with a FirePro V8800 graphics card. It shows OpenGL 3D rendering and OpenCL compute simultaneous driving a 3D simulation of particles flow and a 2D simulation of the water surface.
The other pics below are also from SC11: The specs for the Tyan 2U server; two closeup shots of the 2U blade server with FirePro graphics; and MotionDSP’s Ikena OpenCL-accelerated imaging software.
It’s a Dell marketing video. That said it still interesting to watch how the creatives behind the live streams between acts at Austin City Limits Music Fest & Lollapalooza, pulled together content as it was happening. Looks like FCP running on Dell workstation laptops accelerated using AMD FirePro graphics.
At this years SC11 Nov 14-18, Super Micro Computer will show off their new HPC server based on 16-core AMD Opteron 6200 processors. Supermicro’s A+ HPC exhibit will include the 4U/Tower server supporting dual AMD Opteron 6200 processors, up to 256GB of memory, and up to three AMD FirePro GPUs.
In addition to their own booth #2918, Supermicro will also be showing in the AMD booth #823 where you can enter to win a Supermicro H8DGi-F motherboard.
The Dassault Systemes Customer Conference (DSCC 2011) brings together customers, partners and technology leaders representing 11 industries and users of the DS 3D and PLM brands: CATIA for designing the virtual product, DELMIA for virtual production, SIMULIA for virtual testing, ENOVIA global collaborative innovation, EXALEAD for search-based applications, 3DSwYm for social collaboration and 3DVIA for online 3D lifelike experiences.
The AMD FirePro team demoed a common manufacturing workflow using AMD Eyefinity technology across 3 displays using a single FirePro graphic card to create assembly and maintenance instructions of a radio controlled car. The multi-application workflow moves from design using CATIA V5 or V6 to 3DVIA Composer for technical illustration, exploded views and bill of materials lists. From there you can output in 3D XML or 3D pdf format for use in the field or on the shop floor as a technical manual .
The first video shows this multi-application workflow running on a Dell T3500 workstation with a a FirePro V7900 card.
The second video shows CATIA running across 3-display using Eyefinity on the FirePro M8900 Mobility Pro 2GB graphics card that is standard on the Dell Precision M6600 mobile workstation.
And some photos if you don’t have time for the videos.
This Webinar (Thursday, November 17, 2011 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST) from DesignWorld will examine the details of CPUs and GPUs, explore their differences and similarities, and highlight the computing power they can provide. It will also look specifically at OpenCL, what it is, what it does, and how this new computing interface will change the way software developers create software and help end users fully realize the compute power contained within today’s modern desktop computers.
FireUser.com is a community resource for visualization, 3D, video and engineering professionals to learn about the latest acceleration and display technologies, discuss support issues, as well as influence the features and direction of the FireGL and FirePro accelerator line.
