Portable, Graphics Engineering Workstations Feature Nvidia's Dual Quadro FX 3500 by PNY Technologies

NextComputing, the developers of the first FlexTop computer, today announced the integration of the Dual NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500 graphic boards by PNY Technologies, Inc. inside this portable, graphics engineering supercomputer.

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500 brings enhanced GPU capabilities and SLI support, 256MB of GDDR3 RAM, stereo and dual dual-link DVI connectors, viable for high-end CAD/CAM, and DCC markets.

More precisely, NextComputing's NextDimension combines Dual-Core Opteron Processors by AMD with the capabilities of two cards to address the problems of CPU 'jam' (bottleneck), as 3D performance in many CAD applications is dependent upon the workstation's CPU.

Furthermore, because it is SLI-enabled, the general performance can increase by 2X depending upon the application. "By harnessing the power of two NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500 by PNY graphic boards, NextDimension delivers portable high performance workstation graphics into markets requiring breakthrough levels of performance including oil & gas, military and visualization applications," said Jeff Medeiros, business development manager, PNY Technologies.

In order to deliver more space on the CPU, better graphics performance, as well as higher speed memory availability, Nvidia has enabled its OpenGL implementations to reduce the CPU bottleneck by "off loading" processing tasks to the GPU. Furthermore, Nvidia's development has been combined with the Dual-Core 2.2 GHz Opteron processors by AMD, offering, consequently, a maximum thru-put from both AMD's Hyper Transport technology and of the PCI Express x16 bus.