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The advancements of computing technology has been beyond what we expected around 10 years ago. Computer power has grown exponentially for all market segments from personal computing using laptops, business computing using desktops up to enterprise computing using servers installed on datacenters. This trend, brings so many benefits to users from all segments, specially engineers, designers, architects, analysts, up to hobbyists. Rendering isn't a problem anymore as real-time rendering can be achieved using common gaming notebooks and not locked into mobile workstations or even desktop workstations. And the difference in terms of performance, is getting blurry each day. And now, we'll bring you another interesting experiment to show the potentials of knowing the technology and the guts to break the barrier, and success. And this, may be your first article, showing how things be done properly, to achieve server-like performance, on a laptop.
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Rhinoceros 8 has been released for quite some time. There have been some updates from McNeel, the developer of Rhino, as well as some tips and tricks from Sentra Grafika Kompumedia's customers in order to go with better productivity, efficiency and faster workflow in using Rhino. Now, Sentra Grafika Kompumedia (SGK), as always, will put further test on Rhino 8, in designing F-16 XL RC Plane, from nothing, to production layout. Remember, SGK is also user of Rhino. We're not just selling it.
Research: HP Zbook 17 G6, Showcasing Multiple Virtualization for Multiple Users. Simultaneously1/11/2021 In our earlier research, we successfully managed to establish virtual workstation hosted by a notebook. Well, it's not an ordinary notebook. It's a HP Zbook 17 G6 mobile workstation. Even though the Zbook 17 G6 was introduced in mid 2019 by Hewlett Packard, it's not still performing strongly. The one we have here carries Quadro T1000 professional GPU from Nvidia. However, it's easy to equip the Zbook 17 G6 with more powerful desktop GPUs, using its Thunderbolt 3 port and an enclosure, just like we have here. But we would simply go with its built-in discrete graphics (Quadro T1000) so it will give much clearer picture of how this standard Zbook 17 G6 configuration would perform, providing enough power for 2 users simultaneously: its user and another remote user. Research: Can Zbook 17 G6 Change Its Nature, and Become 2-in-1 (2 Users in 1 Workstation)?13/10/2021 Many years back, Sentra Grafika Kompumedia delivered astounding solution based on HP Z400 up to Z800. Our solution allowed customers who bought high-end Z400 or even Z800, to use it for up to 4 users just by adding keyboards, mice and monitors, concurrently. Not a single client box, attached.
Shortage. A situation that brings difficulties to almost everyone. Specially those who are in needs for the products that experiencing shortage in the market. Difficult to find, difficult to purchase. Which will lead to extreme halt to do things that would require them when not being able to get one. Further, it goes much worse when the price's just getting out of reach.
Earlier, I posted about my HP Zbook 17 G6, configured with Nvidia RTX A5000 professional desktop GPU and it delivers remarkable computing performance for engineering and multimedia, shortening huge time needed for rendering, data processing, analysis and some other tasks that rely on GPU. It offers huge leap as well with new Nvidia Optix alongside CUDA. And now, I'm gonna give an early impression of the RTX A5000's little brother, the RTX A4000 professional desktop GPU.
The truth is, I still couldn't believe myself that the performance jump of the Zbook 17 G6 I daily use, could leap this high. I mean real high.
HP Zbook 17 G6 + Nvidia Tesla K10: True Desktop Workstation Replacement for Engineers and Designers1/6/2021 I'd been using Zbook Studio G3 along with Nvidia Tesla K10 more often than my HP Z820. Even though the Zbook Studio was carrying Intel 6th Gen Core i7 6820HQ processor, it was still sufficient to meet most of my demanding applications for design engineering, broadcast multimedia and some others. However, Unreal Engine squeezed it to its limit and on some cases, it couldn't keep up. Alhamdulillah, this is the point where the HP Zbook 17 G6 saves my recent days.
You may had read some reviews or articles about HP Zbook 17 G6 elsewhere. But this one, will come out from a user's perspectives, instead of components' perspectives. I hope, it could give you all many uncovered details about what it can deliver, as a desktop replacement. And again, from a user's perspectives. These would range from its design, comfort, up to its performance. Rhinoceros 7 brings many new features, as the answers to many loyal users and professionals around the world who requested lists of features. There are tons of enhancements in modeling, drafting up to presentation improvements, as well as changing its support to Windows 8 and above. Sorry Windows 7 users, Rhinoceros 7 can not be installed to your machine with your preferred OS. I think it's time for Win 7 users to upgrade to Win 10, along with Rhinoceros 7. However, with the OS upgrade requirement, Rhino 7 gives offerings that many couldn't resist. So fortunate that I have 2 mobile workstations for my daily demands:
A grid computing GPU alongside a notebook/mobile workstation? That would be a dream if I could connect it to my HP Zbook Studio with good old Intel Core i7-6820HQ and Quadro M1000M. Really? A 6th-gen Intel processor, not the 11th-gen which is coming out soon? Yes, it's a good 4 years old HP Zbook Studio that handles my daily engineering (3d modeling, CFD simulation), visualization (rendering and animation) as well as visual effects (non-linear editing and compositing) tasks. The Zbook Studio flies when processing common 4K/UHD content in Davinci Resolve 16.
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AuthorBimo Adi Prakoso, founder of Sentra Grafika Kompumedia, is an engineering-animation-broadcast industry professional and workstation evangelist. He's been in the Workstation industry since 1996, the era of SGI. Categories
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