AMD announced that the latest FirePro professional graphics cards have been certifed for the OpenCL-compliant Abaqus 6.11 finite element analysis (FEA) software.
“Many of the tasks that used to take a full day to complete can now be done in about half that time with GPU compute, saving engineering time and resources during product research and design, and reducing overall time to market,” said Sandeep Gupte, general manager, AMD Professional Graphics. “With SIMULIA’s latest realistic simulation software, which is compliant with OpenCL standards, engineers can achieve precise results in their design analysis with minimal hardware limitations.”
I was surprised at how informative this video actually is. It shows a complete unboxing and setup for the FirePro V5900 video card with an example of driving 4 displays using Eyefinity, including setup using the Catalyst software.
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.
AMD begin shipping the FirePro V9800P that can deliver Windows desktop sessions to 22 remote client PCs through support for Microsoft’s RemoteFX desktop virtualization technology. The V9800P is targeted at customers looking for workstation replacements through virtualization, or at companies like engineering firms looking to create clusters for execution of scientific or math tasks.
Dell offers the card with its PowerEdge M610x server.
Specs:
- 4GB of GDDR5 memory
- 2.64 TFLOPS of single precision and 528 GFLOPS of double precision floating point performance
- Microsoft certification for RemoteFX and the ability to support up to 22 virtual machines running typical office applications
- Remote computing experiences on par with physical systems, including rich media like full motion video and 3D
- Support for OpenGL 4.2, DirectX 11 and OpenCL
- Passive cooling for silent operation and deployment flexibility
- MSRP of $2,499 (50% less than Nvidia Tesla M2070Q)
This demo at the AMD Theater by Optis shows their new OpenCL-accelerated THEIA RT Suite for real-time interaction with physics-based rendered virtual prototypes. The demo shows a Bentley car model created from six views folded into a box, with stitched edges to become a fully interactive environment. It is running across 3 displays using Eyefinity driven by a single FirePro V7900.
Why is this incredible (aside from being cool)? It gives engineers and designers instant feedback and decision making power, allowing real time previews of complex ergonomic issues such as sun glare, disturbing reflections and areas of poor visibility. This is particularly useful for automotive and aerospace human machine interface design and optimization.
The audio in this demo is a bit difficult to hear, but cleans up near the end.
This demo at the AMD Theaterof eyeon Fusion shows node-based compositing using scenes from Roland Emmerich’s upcoming film “Anonymous”. The demo is running across 3 displays all driven by a single AMD FirePro V7900. Jeff Krebs, director of sales at eyeon is the presenter.
Fusion now supports OpenCL and eyeon reports improvements as much as 1000% on some of the most processor intensive tools in Fusion (e.g. Defocus, Noise generators). Developers can insert OpenCL code directly into Fuse tools to create your own GPU-accelerated tools.
This demo at the AMD Theater of Maya Entertainment Creation Suite in Viewport 2.0 uses an AMD FirePro V7900 driving 3 displays to demonstrate character development. The Eyefinity workflow demo is presented by Lee Fraser, application engineer from Autodesk.
Photos of several of the winners (FirePro V5900 prize) from 4 of the hands-on “Fire Drill” competitions at AMD Experience Zone at SIGGRAPH 2011. The speed modeling competition hosted by Luxology Modo and CGW has contestants building space ships, creatures and model cars using 3ds Max, Maya or Modo. Each contestant is running on an HP Z workstation with three ZR displays powered by Eyefinity and a single AMD FirePro V7900.
As part of the Experience Zone at SIGGRAPH 2011, the “Fire Drill” speed modeling competition with Luxology Modo has contestants building space ships. Each contestant is running on HP Z workstations featuring three ZR displays powered by a AMD FirePro V7900.
Brief interview with Alexis Mather of AMD after he did his SIGGRAPH 2011 tech talk on video processing with AMD FirePro GPUs. This talk reviews the types of processing and rendering that the GPU excels at and illuminates some of the emerging trends for tightening GPU integration into broadcast and post-production workflows.
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