Editor’s Pick: High-Performance Mobile Workstation Gets Graphics Boost

Dear Desktop Engineering Reader:

Eurocom makes cool stuff, and cool stuff is what today’s Pick of the Week write-up has in store for you.

Eurocom’s mobile workstation line can replace a traditional desktop system. They are for you road warriors beating on compute-intensive CAD/CAM/CAE applications and having a job that constantly has you at a client’s location or at home working. Pretty much everything about them is engineered for customization and reconfiguration from the user and manufacturer’s point of view.

That upgradability readiness is important to you. First, it means you can keep up with evolving technology without having to buy a new system every 18 months. Second, whether you go new or update, Eurocom has made its computing platform ready to adapt to the likely direction of changing technologies. That foresight comes into play with today’s write-up.

Eurocom just announced that its Scorpius notebook-sized unit now supports dual MXM 3.0b NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M SLI graphics. MXM is an interconnect standard for GPU (graphics processing unit) slots. SLI means “scalable link interface.” SLI technology lets you combine GeForce GTX GPUs (graphics processing units). It expedites data flows between graphics cards and provides scaled graphics performance. In other words, on a Scorpius your compute-intensive graphics should appear as vibrant as possible.

You're probably wondering: Isn’t the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M for gamers? Indeed. It’s the top of that line. Have you ever seen the renderings in games? Coping with their graphics demands leads the way for coping with engineering graphics loads. To that point, Eurocom released benchmarks for a 980M SLI-equipped Scorpius. The results for SPECviewperf 11 tests, which look at things like CATIA, Insight and SolidWorks, are included.

Depending on how you configure it, Scorpius will serve multiple roles – engineering workstation, mobile server, professional-level graphics platform or NVIDIA CUDA (compute unified device architecture) development station. Specs of interest to engineers: It sports a fourth generation Intel Mobile Core i7 4xxx series quad-core CPU, up to 32GB of memory and a 17.3-in. full high-definition 1920 x 1080 display. A 1TB drive is standard.

You’ll find more specs for the Scorpius mobile workstation in today’s Pick of the Week write-up and the included links. The Scorpius could provide a powerful solution for engineers who by day are on the road wooing clients with intense renderings and by night slaying dragons, which are pretty similar things if you think about it. Cool stuff. Hit the link to learn more now.

Thanks, Pal. – Lockwood

Anthony J. Lockwood

Editor at Large, Desktop Engineering

Learn more about the Scorpius mobile workstation here.