North American Eagle was at the COE 2012 Annual PLM Conference and TechniFair last week and met up with Antoine Reymond from the AMD FirePro team. NAE used AMD FirePro Graphic Cards in each of their Lenovo ThinkStations to drive their designs.
Who is North American Eagle? Their goal is to break the current world land speed record of 763 MPH (341.09 m/s), set on October 15, 1997. The American-Canadian team is converting a former USAF Lockheed F-104 jet fighter into one of the most sophisticated vehicles on earth.
This video compares PTC Creo Parametric 2.0 to Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5 for 3D transparency rendering on an AMD FirePro V7900. AMD and PTC developed a new hardware-accelerated transparency feature called Order Independent Transparency (OIT) (See post on ultra-fast GPU-accelerated 3D transparency mode for Creo Parametric 2.0). With the new OIT users can experience up to 900% faster performance in 3D transparency rendering with AMD FirePro professional graphics cards. Check out the video to see the first public example of this. This is impressive.
Coming up this spring as part of American Airlines in-flight entertainment programming: an interview with Allen Bourgoyne, director of AMD’s FirePro Professional Graphics.
Congratulations to the winners of the Experience FirePro! Sweepstakes. The sweepstakes asked users of recent FirePro graphic cards to comment on their experience.
From the entries, 3 winning names were randomly selected. Each winner will receive an new AMD FirePro V5900 workstation graphics card. The winners are:
Gary Schultze - Minnesota
Adam Carlson - Virginia
Aaron Cantrell - Massachusetts
This sweepstakes was the first step in a broader initiative designed to understand how graphics companies like AMD, Nvidia and Intel going to differentiate themselves and compete in the professional markets as these markets mature and raw performance specs become more of a commodity. Workstation graphics cards are no different from any other product competing in a mature market. You need to build brand trust and identity. So what will be the new defining characteristics of the professional graphics brands. Reliability? Compatibility? Energy management? GPU-CPU integration? Open standards/open source? Multi-display support?
If you have any ideas on this issue, please comment! If performance is a given, what other characteristics will be important to building brand perception?
Kind of a clever way to share specs about the HP Z Workstation - a little video of a duet rattling things off to the melody of The Beatles “All my Loving”.
Covers the basics from ISV certified to graphics from AMD
Take a look at this video of UniVisual’s latest installation of a multi-projector curved screen at the Digital Art Center in Sweden. The screen is 3 meters high, 7.3 meters wide and covers 120 degree. It is projected using 6 full HD projectors connected to a single PC with an AMD FirePro V9800 graphics card.
Share your FirePro graphics experience for a chance to win a AMD FirePro V5900
What's behind this sweepstakes?
We believe the new line of FirePro cards and drivers are more stable and more reliable than any other graphics solution out there. But we want to hear unbiased reality from end users - from the single designer using PhotoShop CS5 to the multi-person CAD shop using a range of DCC and CAD/CAE apps.
Update March 5, 2012: Congratulations to the Winners!
Gary Schultze - Minnesota
Adam Carlson - Virginia
Aaron Cantrell - Massachusetts
IT'S EASY TO ENTER!
Simply post a comment to http://fireuser.com/blog/experience_firepro describing your experience with reliability, stability and compatibility for any recent* FirePro graphic cards. This comment can be as short as one sentence or as detailed as a paragraph or two. OR
Post a message on Twitter that describes your experience with reliability, stability and compatibility for any recent* FirePro graphics cards. Be sure to include the hashtag #fireuser in the message.
Comments and Tweets should represent real experiences - good, bad or indifferent. As long as your experience references a recent* card, you are using an up-to-date driver, and you say what app(s) you are using, we want to hear what you have to say. Your comment or tweet will enter you to win an AMD FirePro V5900 graphics card.
DATES:
Sweepstakes runs February 13-27, 2012.
PRIZES:
Three Winners will be randomly drawn, each to receive one complimentary AMD FirePro™ V5900 Professional Graphics card valued at approximately US$599 each.
EXAMPLES OF TWEETS THAT DESCRIBE THE QUALITY, GRAPHICS CARD AND SOFTWARE:
FirePro V7900 is fast, stable in CREO/Elements Pro + Keyshot workflow. Can't live without Eyefinity #FireUser
FirePro V4900 is performing as expected in SolidWorks 2011 running a 2 million polygon model #FireUser
Driving 6 HD displays for studio broadcasting using Viz Engine and FirePro V9800. Glitches not an option. #FireUser
My new FirePro V5900 is outperforming my Quadro 2000 and shows no artifacts in CATIA #FireUser
Once I cleared out old drivers and installed latest versions, FirePro V7800 started performing well in Maya 2011 #FireUser
WHAT TO INCLUDE IF YOU COMMENT:
Comments on http://fireuser.com/blog/experience_firepro can of course be longer and provide more detail including the applications you work in, how you have stressed the card and if you have any direct comparison using another card with these applications.
* RECENT ELIGIBLE GRAPHIC CARDS:
Eligible graphic cards for the sweepstakes include the FirePro V3800, FirePro V3900, FirePro V4800, FirePro V4900, FirePro V5800, FirePro V5900, FirePro V7800, FirePro V7900, FirePro V8800 and FirePro V9800.
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. SWEEPSTAKES IS OPEN ONLY TO LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES AND LEGAL RESIDENTS OF CANADA, EXCLUDING QUEBEC WHO ARE AGE 18 YEARS OR OLDER.
The AMD FirePro team is busy setting up for booth #207 at SolidWorks World 2012 - right off the main entrance. In addition to the breakout sessionTuning Your Workstation to Get the Best Out of SolidWorks #4080 on Tues 10:30 AM, also look watch for demos of workflows using Eyefinity, stereo 3D and 3DVIA Composer.
I almost missed this one because it was so far from what I was expecting. Yesterday Dassault Systèmes (SolidWorks, CATIA, 3DVia, etc) acquired Netvibes, the RSS/Twitter/FacebookSocial Media dashboard service (corporate or personal). This is part of their release of the 3D Experience platform intended to transform the way “innovators will innovate with consumers” by connecting designers, engineers, marketing managers and even consumers, in a new ‘social enterprise’.
Netvibes allows companies to connect internal enterprise platforms, databases or systems with external cloud apps, social feeds and live sentiment monitoring to create a real-time dashboard. This helps to track consumer sentiment, brand image or the adherence rate of early adopters, enabling companies to act in real-time and in-context for a better, richer experience and decision-making.
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.
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