The finalist for the Cubicle Toy Design Contest sponsored by AMD FirePro Graphics, Dell and Desktop Enginneering were announced. The contest was for creative engineers to create a cubicle toy that would be guaranteed to inspire, amuse, amaze, or annoy your coworkers. The winner receives a Dell Precision Workstation with professional AMD FirePro graphics.
The designs are in, the judges have deliberated and the finalists for DE’s Design Challenge are ...
Mark Norwood for his water-spraying Sherman tank.
Jason Cox for his remote-controlled PC mouse.
Ray Kelley for his bottlecap blaster.
Next week, Jason, Mark, and Ray’s final designs will be posted to DE Facebook fan page so readers and fans can help select the winner by voting on their favorites.
Qatar’s concept presentation to FIFA to host the 2022 World Cup was developed by stereolize using Venutz software running on 8 synched FirePro graphics cards with Eyefinity across 32 projectors. The 35 minute presentation “World of Football” displayed the key points of the transportation, accommodation, stadium, security and technological plans for a successful World Cup in Qatar.
Visitors were seated inside a glass cube with a 270 degree, 17m FirePro-Eyefinity holoscreen projection that delivered animations and flythroughs. Spectators lost the feeling of the room dimensions and were actually put on a rollercoaster ride through the world of football in Qatar.
If you are interested in the latest AMD FirePro line, I just came across http://www.fireprographics.com/. The site has a wealth of information about the FirePro V4900, FirePro V5900 and FirePro V7900.
There are some truly interesting case studies for CAD and DCC, as well as videos comparing performance, and full comparative specs.
Even if you aren’t in the market for a new or replacement graphics card, the resources on this page are interesting to check out just to see how AMD is radically transforming their marketing and presentation. They’ve always had great cards. Now they are actually letting users know about them.
The new AMAX VCS-F24D professional workstation can support up to 4 AMD FirePro professional graphics cards (V9800, V8800, V7800 or V8750), each at 2560x1600 resolution and sync’d using the AMD FirePro S400 synchronization module across multiple workstations. This configuration allows up to 24 independently-accelerated display outputs to be used simultaneously for massive command-center display and an ultra-immersive visual environment. Applications include financial, security, transportation, GIS and media with full support for DirectX 11, OpenGL 4, and OpenCL.
At CES, in addition to showing off Kinect, Microsoft also showed off their next generation multi-touch Surface platform on the Samsung SUR40. This new version was powered by the AMD Athlon II X2 embedded processor and Radeon HD 6700M graphic to deliver high performance with low power requirements. See the video below or check out the press release.
Just saw this in my RSS feed from Vizworld. If you’re a designer, recent graduate, student or talented young gun in Italy, now is your chance to shine and bring your work to a wider audience. To enter the Autodesk-sponsored contest post a link to your 3D visualization or design visualization showreel in any format, along with a description under 140 characters as to why you think you’re the hottest design visualization talent around.
The grand prize winner receives a high-end ATI FirePro graphics card with the two runners up receiving mid-range FirePro cards. The contest will run from September 1st to October 1st.
The very cool 92 million pixel video wall that blew people away at SIGGRAPH 2010, will be making an appearance at IBC 2010 in the AMD booth #7.J30, according to Vizrt.
If you haven’t already heard about the wall, hi-resolution, complex 3D animations play across 40 displays, powered by 10 ATI FirePro V8800s with Eyefinity and Viz Video Wall ER. Each display in the wall has a resolution of 1920x1200, giving a total resolution of 19200 x 4800 pixels or 92 megapixels.
The Viz Engine processes are synchronized via the ATI FirePro S400 Synchronization module (Genlock and Framelock), distributing a unique frame counter to all Viz Engines, in order to guarantee the same animation progress on all 40 displays.
I’m a fan of clever videos and this is no exception. It shows a law enforcement swat team giving a briefing about an unusual heat signature and power consumption coming from a house (this is often a sign of indoor marijuana cultivation). After the commandos break into the house and shout at the two occupants to get on the floor, they see a glowing green box. As they leave the room one commando then announces: “Fermi again, it is the third time this week.” Great humor making light of Nvidia Fermi’s intrinsic heat and power issues.
AMD’s Charlie Boswell was with Robert Rodriguez and Troublemaker Studios at the 7.7.2010 world premiere of the film “Predators” in Austin, Texas. Robert and Elizabeth explain how AMD technology played a role enabling ultra-fast and ultra-realistic previz using a six-person production team each using an AMD 6-core Istanbul CPU workstation powered by an ATI FirePro V8800 GPU.
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