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News Release from: CoCreate Software | Subject: OneSpace Designer 2006
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 23 June 2005
Modelling software works better on 64bit
platforms
A 64bit version of Designer Modeling will become available with the OneSpace Designer 2006 release, expected in the early part of 2006.
A 64bit version of Designer Modeling will become available with the OneSpace Designer 2006 release, expected in the early part of 2006 The 64bit platform offers customers significantly more addressable model space and performance, which benefits designers working with large assemblies or more complex parts
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 29 Jun 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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This will broaden platform choices for customers who will be able to choose between either 64bit or 32bit versions of the application.
In combination with Microsoft's Windows XP Professional x64, both Intel and AMD offer 64bit architectures which can run both 64 and 32bit applications.
The 64bit processors CoCreate recommends are: the Intel processor families with Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology (Intel EM64T); and AMD's AMD64 processor family.
Customers seeking larger addressable memory do not need to wait for OneSpace Designer 2006 to benefit from the 64bit platform.
The latest release of Designer Modeling (13.20) has been tested for the Windows XP Professional x64 Edition operating system.
While Designer Modeling (13.20) is a 32bit application, running it on the 64bit platform offers significantly more application memory.
On a 32bit Windows system the maximum memory available is 4Gbyte, which must be shared between the operating system, memory-resident drivers, applications and application data.
Typically, that means the most memory available to an application running on a 32bit operating system is around 2Gbyte.
By contrast the recommended 64bit processors and operating system can allocate as much as 4Gbyte of RAM to the 32bit version of Designer Modeling (13.20) - and that address space does not need to accommodate the operating system and drivers.
That gives the full 4Gbyte to the application and application data, a significant increase for designers working with larger assemblies.
Customers can make new hardware investments in the 64bit platform today and immediately benefit from the additional memory for Designer Modeling (13.20), while assured of additional performance gains with the availability of the 64bit version of Designer Modeling in the near future.
The Model Manager client has also been fully tested and is now supported on the Windows 64bit operating system.
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