Former Alias consultant joins ARTVPS management team

Last Updated on Wednesday, 8 December 2010 08:47 Written by DCD Admin Thursday, 28 February 2008 08:43

ARTVPS is pleased to announce the appointment of Michael Lawson as Director of Product DevelopmentMichael, whose career spans over 20 years in the CG industry, includes over 4 years spent as a product consultant with Alias research in Toronto before returning to the UK as founder and director of his own digital content creation and software development company.?As both a user and industry consultant Michael brings with him a practical understanding of computer graphics technology and will lead ARTVPS?? experienced software team as the company enters a new phase in their product development.?Michael Lawson said, ??ARTVPS are renowned for their unique ray tracing technology and developing rendering hardware that enables 3D artists to create truly amazing images. ?I am looking forward to joining such a talented team and driving the development of innovative new solutions to meet the challenges facing users today.???Graham Wylie, CEO at ARTVPS said ??2008 is set to be an exciting year for ARTVPS and we are very pleased to have Michael on board. ?He has already made a significant contribution to the future direction of the company and his industry knowledge and experience will prove invaluable as we continue to adapt in a rapidly changing market.?

ICEM and Intel Announce New Performance Breakthrough with new 45nm multi-core Intel Xeon processor

Last Updated on Wednesday, 8 December 2010 08:43 Written by DCD Admin Friday, 1 February 2008 08:40

ICEM, the leading provider of styling, high-quality surface modelling and rendering solutions and Intel Corporation, the world’s largest chip maker, today announced a new performance breakthrough in design visualization software for use in the design development of a wide range of manufactured products. ICEM and Intel collaborated to optimize the leading performance of the Quad-core Intel Xeon Processor 5400 Series with ICEM solutions in order to benefit from the latest technological improvements such as high clock frequency & fast and huge bandwidth. Those improvements will accelerate the adoption of Intel technologies by ICEM for its leading applications & developments.

??Designing real time high quality rendering & modelling software has always been a challenge. With the advent of complex and ultra realistic 3D models, the computational horsepower requirement has dramatically increased. Optimizing ICEM Surf, widely used by most automotive OEMs as key component of design workflow, take advantage of the high speed & huge bandwidth of the new Quad-core Intel??? Xeon??? processor 5400 Series allows to improve the performance by 13% comparing to the previous generation of Quad-core Intel Xeon processor with similar clock frequency?? said Ingo Stadel, Principal Graphic Software Development Engineer, ??and up to 36% with Intel Xeon E542 Series at 2.8GHz??.

With all the new technologies introduced by the Quad-core Intel??? Xeon??? processor 5400 Series, the implementation of previously intractable algorithms becomes a reality leading to a major breakthrough in video quality.

??Not to mention, working with Intel underpins ICEMs position as leading provider for design solutions. It is considered as testimony for our ability to deliver technology ahead of their time?? said Doris Hopert, Director ICEM R&D.