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Frank Ohlhorst is chief analyst and freelance writer at Ohlhorst.net. Send e-mail about this article to [email protected].

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Product Line Engineering 101

An example of what product line engineering means to the design engineer.

Virtual Reality Speeds Design

The technology gives engineers at Ford and other companies an early look at designs.

Dell Advances Virtual Workstation Adoption

Dell’s Workstation Virtualization Center of Excellence showcases how virtualization can speed engineering tasks and reduce costs.

Supercomputers: Share and Share Alike

The NCSA wants to share its supercomputing resources with private industry.

Volvo Drives NVH Simulation Forward

Volvo Cars has long recognized the importance of leveraging noise, vibration and harshness simulation software to improve its vehicles.

New Computing and Graphics Processors Drive Engineering Innovation

The quest to deliver higher performance levels, while keeping power consumption and costs under control.

CAD Value and Workstation Performance are Not Mutually Exclusive

CAD relies on high-performance systems to meet the productivity levels engineers need to remain competitive.

Choose the Right Workstation Hardware for Maximum Performance and Value

Engineers need to choose the right computing hardware to do the job or risk harming productivity and increasing costs.

CPUs, GPUs, APUs and You

APUs, CPUs and GPUs are driving the next generation of simulation software, 3D modeling solutions and advanced design systems.

Dealing with Data Storage

Simulation data can consume massive amounts of storage -- stressing networks, infrastructures and engineers.

Speed Up Engineering IT

Virtualization promises a solution to the budget constraints and challenges associated with deploying new engineering computing hardware.

Workstation, Cluster or Cloud?

Choosing where to run complex computational models has become a choice driven by more than just costs. Today, many factors come into play when choosing from among the traditional workstation, onsite computing grid or cloud services.

Storage Is Key to HPC

Often overlooked in the bandolier of high-performance computing components is storage, where speed equals results and reliability equals success.

The Ins and Outs of Technical Training

To outsource training or not to outsource training, that is the question for growing engineering and professional firms.

Fast Track Embedded Systems Development

Creating embedded systems takes skill, components, time and most importantly, the ideas that fuel innovation.

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