Bricsnet (Gent, Belgium), a provider of integrated software technology and services to real estate organizations, today announced a management buyout of its CAD software, Bricsnet Architecturals and Bricsnet IntelliCAD. The management buyout is led by Erik de Keyser, founder and former CEO of Bricsnet and was made possible by Brussels-based venture capital fund Privast Capital Partners. De Keyser will operate the CAD business under the name
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Electronic Arts (Los Angeles) whereby EA will use NXN's alienbrain software to manage its game development projects worldwide....
LightWork Design (Sheffield, UK), a supplier of software for rendering and simulation, has announced the spin-off of its NavisWorks Division into a separate, independent company,
NavisWorks Ltd. NavisWorks will focus on developing markets for communication, visualization, and navigation of 3D designs in the architectural, engineering, and construction industries.
Best DesignReview PerformersThe Wildcat II 5110 graphics accelerator, paired with both a Dell and an IBM M Pro system, earned the highest scores out of nine workstation and graphics card combinations tested with the DesignReview (DRV-07) subset of the SPECviewperf 6.1.2 benchmark. DesignReview is a program developed to review plant design models consisting of piping, equipment, and various structural elements. The DRV-07 benchmark comprises five tests that represent the most common operations performed by Design Review.
The mean scores represent the combined, weighted results of the tests, measured in the number of frames per second the machines were able to execute. The larger the numbers, the better the performance. To see how the same workstations fared in other benchmark tests, or to review results from additional systems, visit www.spec.org/gpc.
| Top Nine Design Review Performers |
| Workstation |
Graphics Card |
Price |
Mean Score |
| Dell 530 2.2GHz |
3Dlabs Wildcat II 5110 |
$4968 |
38.33 |
| IBM M Pro 2GHz |
3Dlabs Wildcat II 5110 |
$4028 |
37.97 |
| IBM M Pro 2GHz |
Fire GL4 |
$3618 |
31.24 |
| IBM M Pro 1.5GHz |
3Dlabs Wildcat II 5110 |
$3528 |
30.22 |
| Dell 340 2.2GHz |
ATI Fire GL2 |
$2816 |
28.60 |
| Compaq Evo W6000 1.7GHz Xeon |
ATI FireGL2 |
$3219 |
27.26 |
| Fujitsu Siemens Celsius 460 |
Celsius GL2 |
$4750 |
26.28 |
| IBM M Pro 1.5GHz |
Fire GL2 |
$2188 |
25.59 |
| Compaq Evo W6000 1.7GHz Xeon |
Nvidia Quadro2 Pro |
$2969 |
21.04 |
Companies listed are voluntary participants.
Source: SPEC/GPC benchmark results January 2002. Copyright Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. |