Sanjay Gangal interviewed Chris Ramirez, Strategical Alliances Manager at Dell at the 2019 SOLIDWORKS World Conference in Dallas, Texas. Here is the video and transcript of the interview.
SG: Tell us; What brings Dell to SOLIDWORKS World 2019?
CR: We’re absolutely thrilled to be here! SOLIDWORKS users make up one of the most vibrant communities that we have between Dell and SOLIDWORKS. So, I’m here to talk about the latest Dell Precision Workstations that we think is right up the alley for the traditional SOLIDWORKS user. Our line-up of Dell Precision workstations goes from our 3000 series class up to our 7000 series class. You can view the 3000 as a sports car and the 7000 as an earth moving bulldozer.
The right thing for this crowd is something that has a high frequency CPU – doesn’t need a lot of cores; because SOLIDWORKS primarily is single cored, that can take advantage of the brilliant GPU acceleration coming from our friends at NVIDIA with the RTX 4000. That’s what we’re demoing in our booth! Those combined with a tech preview of SOLIDWORKS Visualize where they’re actually taking advantage of the real-time ray-tracing cores inside the RTX 4000. So, what that means to those people that are familiar with Visualize is: they can come by my booth, grab the monitor, take a photo-realistic image that we’ve got up or a photo-realistic model that we have up and rotate that model anyway they want to and within three or four seconds, it renders photo-realistic. (SG: wow!) Instead of having to do a rendering overnight or it will take several hours to render, we can now do it in seconds. The advent of real-time, photo-realistic rendering is huge to this audience. And we wanted to show off that work that we’re doing with NVIDIA and SOLIDWORKS.
