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Nvidia ‘Ada Lovelace’
How the major public cloud providers stack up in CAD, BIM and viz workflows
What do Nvidia’s new generation professional GPUs offer for visualisation?
Cloud workstations are not limited to on-site use with tablets. In an office environment the ‘endpoint’ can also be a standard laptop, desktop PC, thin client, zero client, or even a £35 Raspberry Pi. Users can even plug in a SpaceMouse for precise control in 3D CAD and BIM applications.
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