Take Virtual Reality Anywhere

Dear DE Reader:

Rave Computer earns its chops making purpose-built workstations for compute- and graphics-intensive jobs like modeling, simulation, and visualization for engineering, data crunching, image generation, oil & gas exploration, defense and so on. You get the idea. They have years of experience configuring engineering workstations for tools like ANSYS, KeyShot, Maya, NX and SOLIDWORKS. Today’s Check it Out link takes you to the scoop on Rave’s new powerful beast.

Backdrop: Last Spring, Rave rolled out its MOBILEBEAST small-form factor (SFF) workstation. This Intel Xeon processor based workstation sports an NVIDIA Quadro graphics card, meaning it’s designed for compute-intensive jobs like real-time photorealistic rendering, video and complex visualizations.

Now Rave has unveiled its MOBILEBEAST VR for computationally brutal virtual reality (VR) visualizations, real-time rendering and visualization environments. This SFF workstation sure seems to live up to that beast moniker too.

For one, Rave says that it can provide you with detailed real-time renderings at 90-plus fps (frames per second). It’s also ready for up to 64GB of memory and a combination of solid-state and hard drives for as much as 8TB of storage.

Still, the real power growling inside the MOBILEBEAST VR is your choice of Xeon CPUs with up to 22 cores and dual NVIDIA Quadro M5000 or M6000 GPUs (graphics processing units) linked by an SLI (scalable link interface) bridge. SLI is an NVIDIA technology that enables multiple GPUs to parallel process graphics as if they were a single output.

My contact tells me that the MOBILEBEAST VR’s specialization for VR visualizations occurs via Oculus or HTC Vive technologies through that SLI bridge. He added that you can leverage the MOBILEBEAST VR as an NVIDIA IRAY server for development work and that they’re getting great fps performance with it and Autodesk VRED.

Rave Computer’s new MOBILEBEAST VR is optimized for compute-intensive environments such as real-time rendering, visualizations and virtual reality visualization. Image courtesy of Rave Computer.

So, what does small-form factor mean? The MOBILEBEAST VR is not a laptop, but it has a handle on top so that you can easily tote it to client sites, a trade show booth or whatever your gig. Fully loaded, it’ll weigh 24 lbs. It measures 10.5x8.3x16 in. (WxHxD), so it fits your car’s back seat.

Like its siblings, the MOBILEBEAST VR is available in recommended configurations optimized for various compute-intensive software solutions, or you can customize it for specific needs. Hit today’s Check it Out link to learn more about the MOBILEBEAST VR. It sounds unreal.

Thanks, Pal. – Lockwood

Anthony J. Lockwood

Editor at Large, DE