XSTREAM Graphics Card

Introduced

Remcom provides extreme

performance with XSTREAM. The

latest development in FDTD is

the use of GPUs (Graphics

Processor Units) to provide

much faster calculation

speeds compared to the

traditional CPU (central

The Remcom exhibition at MTT‑S

processor unit) of a

2006 in San Fransico was the

desktop computer.

most successful so far. Remcom's

To obtain the best

exhibition space was twice as

enhancement, a high

large as usual and the response

performance video

from delegates was increased

card is used. The FDTD

dramatically. This was helped by

calculation is transferred from

the display of the new XSTREAM

the CPU to the graphics card. "We have seen speed up factors

hardware cards. In addition, the

of 10 and even 20 with the appropriate cards," reports David

Company exhibited at APS 2006 in

Carpenter, Commercial Director at Remcom.

Albuquerque. Again the XSTREAM

graphics accelerator cards proved to

be of great interest.

VariPose Gets Ahead

VariPose v1.2 has now been released. There are many new features

and enhancements. One striking enhancement that users will

immediately notice is that VariPose now has more features on the

skeleton head. This allows more

precise positioning of hands and

cell phone near the head as the

new features are more closely

associated with the tissue data and

mesh model. As a further aide to

positioning the skeleton, props

may now be imported into the

skeleton view. CAD files in .STL

may easily be positioned next to

the skeleton features.

Development of Wireless InSite has con‑

· ESRI Shapefile importation

tinued at an astounding pace. Version 2.3

· Output rendering speed improved

has just been released. One of the exciting

· Project view grid now available

enhancements is that Wireless InSite is

now able to run on Linux and on multiple

· Overlay of original building footprints

processors. Other enhancements are:

in building simplification window