Looking to free engineers, creative professionals and
research scientists from being tethered to their desktops, Dell has announced
its most powerful mobile workstation yet - the Precision
M6500, which is the first in this category to support the next-generation Intel
Core I7 processor along with a variety of other pioneering enhancements. Among the first-of-its-kind performance features that the
Precision M6500 brings to a mobile platform are four DIMM slots to support
memory scalability of up to 16 Gbyte in addition to support for DDR3 1600MHz
memory, both of which deliver the horsepower to accommodate any mixture of
engineering and software development workloads. The Precision M6500 is also the
first mobile workstation to offer the new NVIDIA Quadro FX3800M, a
high-end GPU that features 128 NVIDIA CUDA parallel computing cores, 1GB of
G-DDR2 graphics memory and other capabilities designed to handle professional
engineering applications. The new workstation, which replaces the Precision M6400, is
aimed squarely at engineers looking for a performance boost that doesn't keep
them tied to their desktop. "People in engineering are used to working on a
fixed workstation and have been limited by mobility," says Mano Gialusis,
Dell's senior product manager for mobile workstations. "Who says good ideas
only come between the hours of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.?" With the state-of-the-art Intel processor and GPU options,
along with the fast memory and claim for 100 percent of the Adobe color gamut,
the Dell M6500 has the potential to change the way engineers, design
professionals and research scientists work, according to Jon Peddie, president
of Jon Peddie Research. "Typically, an
engineer or designer would do most of his or her work on a big, powerful
deskside machine then load a couple of display files onto the laptop, go to a
design review meeting, show the files, but not be able to manipulate the model
or do any serious real-time work," Peddie explains. "With this machine,
everything can be done on it, and the laptop can support a second large-scale
display just like a deskside (machine)." In addition to its deskside-class performance features, the
M6500 brings another key element to the mix: Certification on 95 key
applications, including most of the leading CAD and CAE programs. Pricing on
the M6500 starts at $2,749 with the Quadcore processor. Gialusis says pricing
should go down once Intel releases it Duo Core chip platform.
Almost every automaker has had to 'pick a side' when it comes to alternative fuel options and ways to divest from a reliance on gasoline. Fiat is looking to back compressed natural gas or liquid propane as an interim solution.
Designing and filling a new type of water bottle might take less engineering work, but the description will help kids understand how science, math, and engineering influence their lives even through things that seem mundane.
Against a backdrop of mounting product complexity and a need to keep a lid on development costs, companies are recognizing a need to make simulation a more integral part of the design process. In response, vendors in the CAD world are building out CAE functionality as part of their CAD suites while simulation vendors are building tighter integrations to leading CAD tools. Keith Meintjes, Ph.D., Practice Manager, Simulation and Analysis at CIMdata, Inc., joins Design News CAD Editor Beth Stackpole in this radio program to explore the new face of integrated CAD and CAE, how companies are benefitting from this tighter partnership between platforms, and how integrating CAE earlier in the development cycle pays off in optimized product designs.
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