Version 5.5 of Dataton WATCHOUT will be launched at InfoComm 2013, booth 3915. WATCHOUT is a multi-display production and playback system that lets you orchestrate stills, animations, graphics, video, sound and live feeds in a single impressive show across multiple display areas, soft-edge or scattered.
When run on display servers which utilize AMD FirePro cards and a companion AMD FirePro S400 Synchronization Module, WATCHOUT v5.5 now supports hardware-based synchronization of the video outputs allowing users to play back frame-accurate synchronized content across multiple computers. Using the “gen lock” feature of the S400 Synchronization Module, users can lock an entire WATCHOUT rig to an external sync source.
The Top Gun competition at PLM World 2013 was held last night, sponsored by AMD FirePro and Dell. This was a chance for NX aficionados to demonstrate their prowess at modeling in NX.
About the contest
At the start of the competition, the object to be designed is unveiled. This year it was a tape dispenser. Contestants could walk up to the object and look at it, but not touch. All measurement had to be done by eye. Then contestants were given a limited time using a Dell Workstation with AMD FirePro graphics, to get as much done on their design as possible before judges from PLM World and SPLM critiqued the models and determined the winners.
Next week is Siemen's PLM World and AMD FirePro has worked with Siemens, Saratech, Dell and Microsoft to deliver some exciting demos (booth #4) and some great presentations.
What to look for:
Demos (booth #4)
NX 3D Stereo technology demonstrator
Early look at 3D Stereo in NX 9
Powered by AMD FirePro W7000 and Dell T5600
AMD Eyefinity Workflow
NX 8.5, Teamcenter, JT Viewer
Powered by AMD FirePro W7000 and Dell T5600
Windows 8 Pro Tablet – MS Surface
Teamcenter and JT Viewer
Windows 8 Pro Tablet – Fujitsu tablet technology demonstrator
Teamcenter and JT Viewer
Powered by AMD FirePro APU
JACK + Kinect
Human Simulation and Ergonomics
Powered by AMD FirePro M6000 and Dell M6700
Presentations
"Boosting NX Productivity with GPGPU Computing"
Date: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 (11:00 AM - 11:40 AM)
Room: Austin 1
"Trends in Computer Graphics- Shaping the Future in Engineering & Simulation"
Date: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 (05:10 PM - 05:50 PM)
Room: Pearl 41
Test drive the latest OpenCL-accelerated version of FEMAP without having to leave your office! You are invited to attend a live, instructor-led virtual test drive that will allow you to experience FEMAP with NX Nastran first hand.
Date & Time: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT Instructor: Ioana Broome, Saratech Application Engineer
If you are thinking about upgrading or purchasing FEMAP, this is an excellent opportunity to for you to try before you buy. In this free offering you will get access to the full version of FEMAP with NX Nastran as well as Dynamic Response and Design Optimization. There are no restrictions on the number of saves, model sizes or other factors that would limit your ability to simulate and analyze complete product designs.
Using FEMAP's digital simulation capabilities you can:
Significantly speed up the design process by bringing simulation closer to design and reducing time-to-market.
Reduce the need for costly prototypes and testing, saving time and money.
Perform failure analysis that improves product performance and reliability, reducing costly recalls.
Evaluate and optimize designs to minimize material use, investigate use of alternative materials and perform trade-off studies to evaluate differing designs
Experience a standalone engineering analysis environment that can exchange data with any CAD system and simulate using all major commercial solvers.
Attending the event also qualifies you for the opportunity to win an AMD FirePro W5000 Professional Graphics Card!
Registration is required, so reserve your Virtual Test Drive seat now at: FEMAP Virtual Test Drive.
The OPTIS North America Lighting Materials & Design Conference on Tuesday brought together the latest OPTIS technologies and supporting partners to address core challenges in advanced product design with the integration of lighting in advanced material concepts.
AMD FirePro was used to demo OpenCL-accelerated THEIA-RT real-time physics-based raytracing technology for manipulating high detail automobile models in real time with physically correct lighting across multiple displays or in virtual reality centers.
A few pics from the conference of the AMD FirePro booth and demos showing real-time lighting and manipulation all on the GPU:
The SFF tower (about 30% smaller in size than competitor products) supports the AMD FirePro 2270, while the mini tower support graphics cards that can draw up to 150 watts of power for the creation of mid-tier 3D content.
Dell’s Precision R7610 Rack Workstation is the worlds fastest 2U rack system. One rack workstation with 4 AMD FirePro GPUs (e.g. FirePro W5000) can service 4 users simultaneously, working on very demanding graphics tasks, on-site or in different locations.
AMD and Adobe recently announced expanded OpenCL support for Adobe Premiere Pro CC at NAB 2013, including multi-stream and mixed format 6X accelerated workflows with real-time effects, color grading and finishing with hardware-accelerated rendering to the chosen final destination format.
Premiere Pro CC: Today AMD announced support for additional OpenCL-accelerated features with the announcement of Adobe Premiere Pro CC including OpenCL hardware-powered rendering with Adobe Media Encoder CC for Adobe Premiere Pro CC projects and multi-GPU support. This enables users to queue up multiple Adobe Premiere Pro CC projects to be rendered using all available GPU horsepower in the background. There are now over 40 GPU-accelerated features using OpenCL in Premiere Pro CC.
PhotoShop CC: New and enhanced Adobe Photoshop CC features have also been added to the dozens of existing open hardware accelerated features in Adobe Photoshop CC:
Adobe's all-new Smart Sharpen filter leverages OpenCL and AMD graphics technology to sharpen images faster1 while minimizing halo effects on distinct edges and providing precise noise reduction control
The enhanced Blur Gallery harnesses the power of OpenCL and AMD graphics technology to deliver mouse-down previews quickly, accurately and with high on-screen resolution of up to a million pixels. High quality instant on-screen and in-context feedback allows artists to work more efficiently without unnecessary disruptions to the creative workflow. Non-destructive hardware-accelerated Blur Gallery effects are applied as Smart Objects to create a desired look for images and even video within Photoshop CC
Performance enhancements have also been made to the Liquify effect so that creative professionals can now push, pull, rotate, reflect, pucker, or bloat selected image areas to achieve unique artistic effects with greater speed2 while working with even the largest images
Both Adobe Photoshop CC and Adobe Premiere Pro CC fully support advanced display technologies such as 4K and AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology.
The OPTIS North America Lighting Materials & Design Conference May 14, in Detroit Michigan, brings together latest OPTIS technologies to address core challenges in advanced product design with the integration of lighting in advanced material concepts.
THEIA-RT optimized with AMD FirePro and OpenCL lets you manipulate high detail models in real time with physically correct lighting across multiple displays or in virtual reality centers. Engineers or designers simply drag and drop physically correct materials and light sources to achieve immediate photorealistic representation creating time to consider multiple design variants or ergonomic issues in any environment, within any lighting scenario, day or night, all in real time. The conference is focused on product creation and engineering methods/technology that change the game in everything from automotive to consumer good.
AMD FirePro will be presenting and exhibiting at the conference.
AMD FirePro is at Adobe Max 2013 showing example of their work with Adobe to accelerate Premiere Pro, SpeedGrade, and After Effects using OpenCL.
If you haven’t seen the news from NAB, the chart below (from the FireProGraphics.com Adobe mini site) gives some initial results of how Premiere Pro CC performs when accelerated by AMD FirePro workstation graphics and OpenCL compared to CPU only and also compared to Nvidia Quadro workstation graphics and CUDA. This test applied several high quality effects (filters) to video footage in real-time, such as color matching, adjustments to compensate for gamma irregularities and color shifts, color layering, primary and secondary color correction, including many effects from Adobe’s Lumetri Deep Color Engine. The test then measured the time to render the effects In and Out.
Below are pics from Adobe MAX and the FirePro booth showing Premiere Pro CC running on an AMD FirePro W8000 and HP Z80 workstation.
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