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Author: Peter Varhol

HPC & IT Contributor

Contributing Editor Peter Varhol covers the HPC and IT beat for Digital Engineering. His expertise is software development, math systems, and systems management. You can reach him at [email protected].

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Engineering the Connected Car

Networking, software and powerful processors continue to transform our primary mode of transportation.

Using Large-Format Printers and Scanners

Integrating printing and scanning into your design workflow takes planning, good equipment and a clear goal in mind.

Engineers Take Control of the Cloud

A private cloud is typically a hardware appliance that serves up engineering applications locally to all engineers in the organization.

MATLAB 2014b Brings Collaboration and Data Analysis Features

New MATLAB release brings better analytical and collaboration features to the scientific and engineering programming environment.

Engineering Workstation, Cluster or Cloud?

Engineers have to navigate among many alternatives to find the right approach to their high-performance computing tasks.

Simulating M2M System Communication

Building machine-to-machine embedded systems can be complex and error-prone without simulating the communication among devices.

Innovation Reigns at the SIMULIA Community Conference

The Dassault System SIMULIA Community Conference provides attendees with information on simulation product capabilities and direction, access to SIMULIA engineers and networking opportunities.

Real-life Results with the UberCloud CAE Experiment

Engineers are seeing higher computing power and ease of use in moving designs and simulations to the cloud.

MapleSim 6 Goes Social

Building and executing mathematical models is a team sport today, and MapleSim brings detailed simulations to the entire team.

Compute Upgrading for Performance

There are a few workstation upgrades that might deliver enough performance to justify skipping a generation of new systems.

CPU, GPU or Both?

Finding the right multi-processing approach for engineering applications.

Power to the Engineer

SC12 showed how engineering computing is moving to the next performance level.

Hardware-Software Design Optimization

New tools for electronic system prototyping are speeding design testing.

A Quality Partnership

National Instruments and IBM marry embedded system design and testing to optimize quality management.

Computers Drive Engineering Innovation

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