Catia available on new RS/6000 44 modelsParis 03 Mar 00 Thanks to the state-of-the-art 64-bit copper POWER3-IImicroprocessor, the IBM RS/6000 44P workstations will provide IBM andDassault Systemes customers a gain of performance and costsavings. These new workstations offer the POWER to compete and thePOWER to compute allying both a powerful computing platform and a highperformance 3D graphics. This makes it a platform of choice for CATIAand ENOVIA. "The new IBM RS/6000 workstations provide exceptional performancegains over current IBM workstation offerings in the marketplace today.We are extremely impressed with these new systems: they will increaseour customers' productivity as well as offer scalability both from theCPU and the graphic performance standpoints. On floating-pointintensive operations, we measured an up to 3x performance improvementon the 44P-170/333MHz over the 43P-150, and an average 2x improvementon various CPU oriented scenarios. The same average gain was observedon the 44P-270/375 Mhz over the 43P-260. On the graphics side, theperformance of IBM's GXT2000P and GXT3000P graphics acceleratorsscales very well with the CPUs: the performance improvement measuredon these new systems ranges from 1.5x to 2x compared with current IBMworkstations," said Philippe Zimny, Director System ArchitectureDivision, Dassault Systemes. "The RS/6000 will remain the best workstation for the transitionfrom CATIA V4 to V5, allowing users to run both versions, said RodAdkins, IBM general manager, Web servers. The IBM Dassault Systemes International Competency center willdeliver all the needed recommendations to optimize the use of thesepowerful workstations in the increasingly IT integrated engineeringenvironment.
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