Widnows 7 64-bit workstation and TeamCenter & NX6
Widnows 7 64-bit workstation and TeamCenter & NX6
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Look at a new Workstation and wanted any helpful advice to run TeamCenter 8.01 and NX6 64-bit with Windows 7 OS.
HP Z800 with (2) processors.
Wanted to know if NX will utilize both processors and does dual or quad cores make much of a difference.
Also want a nVidia FX 4800 video card for each processor (1.5G) and 8G of RAM.
Disc storage – 10,000 RPM or would the 15,000 be best?
HP Z800 with (2) processors.
Wanted to know if NX will utilize both processors and does dual or quad cores make much of a difference.
Also want a nVidia FX 4800 video card for each processor (1.5G) and 8G of RAM.
Disc storage – 10,000 RPM or would the 15,000 be best?
NX6.0.4.3 mp02, Windows XP 32-bit
Running cad straight out of the box is OK but, a system tuned with application software is the best way to increase productivity.





RE: Widnows 7 64-bit workstation and TeamCenter & NX6
A video card for each processor? Just offhand (not knowing your demands) that sounds like overkill. I'm not even sure quadro cards will run in "SLI" mode and if so if NX will be able to take advantage of it.
RE: Widnows 7 64-bit workstation and TeamCenter & NX6
GTAC informed me that NX7 would only use one of the cores in my dual core computer. They further stated that if the CPU was running 100% (in this case 50% because only one of the two cores was being used), the only other thing that would help would be a faster processor.
By the way, if anyone is interested, the last time I did this operation the 2810 surfaces from a single body took 29 hours to complete! The longer it runs, the slower it completes surfaces.
RE: Widnows 7 64-bit workstation and TeamCenter & NX6
As for the issue of NX 7.0 and dual processors, this is the first that I've ever heard this. There is nothing that I'm aware of concerning any differences with respect to the Parasolid kernel, which is where virtually all of the multi-threaded code resides inside of NX, that would cause NX 7.0 to not utilize SMP any more than any past release.
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RE: Widnows 7 64-bit workstation and TeamCenter & NX6
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: Widnows 7 64-bit workstation and TeamCenter & NX6
In this case I was stuck trimming some particularly nasty sheet bodies that wrapped around on themselves to which end the trim sheet function would hang for hours if you'd let it. Not using much memory but placing one in a situation where the only sane action was to kill ugraf and start again. Now it the software had the sense to either time out or allow you to abort I would have gotten some sleep last night. So now I need to blame somebody grumpy and sleepless as I am!
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RE: Widnows 7 64-bit workstation and TeamCenter & NX6
Note that we've replaced the 'Ctrl-Shift-L' scheme with the on-screen 'Work in Progress . . . Press Stop to interrupt this operation' mini-dialog . If you see this, it's safe to select the 'Stop' button and abort the NX operation underway. Unfortunately, there is a very limited number of places where you will ever see this option being presented.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: Widnows 7 64-bit workstation and TeamCenter & NX6
RE: Widnows 7 64-bit workstation and TeamCenter & NX6
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.