![]() Microsoft Windows 7 Pro and Enterprise editions Operating systems supported by Siemens NX: A high-speed SSD as a primary drive and at least 16GB (32GB preferred) of RAM will be needed. Since NX is core hungry you will need a system that can feed all the threads with data. The ideal money-is-no-object configuration would be a dual socket system with many cores and high-performance cooling to keep single-thread performance as high as possible. This means that you can both a high core-count AND high clock speed. NX also makes a strong case for a dual socket computer where the thermal load is spread between two separate CPU dies. Of course another strategy is to use better cooling on high core-count CPUs to allow for more thermal leeway. This usually means Xeons with 12 or 8 cores. It is therefore worth looking for a processor that has a small difference between its turbo speed and nominal minimum. If all cores are fully loaded they may drop down by nearly half as much in terms of frequency. So a Xeon processor with a 3.5Ghz turbo frequency will only achieve those speeds if you are only using a fraction of its cores. The problem is that the more cores you have on a single die the lower the available thermal limit is for each active core. It is appetite for threads is not unlimited however, so single threaded performance still matters a lot. Unlike AutoCAD which will run on very modest machines and is for the most part single threaded, NX is a well-threaded application. ![]() What really matters to NX is not your OS, but the hardware you give it to work with. ![]() NX will run on Mac OS, Unix-like systems and any Windows version from XP onwards. As soon as a piece of software needs to accurately simulate real-world physics we move into the realm of high-performance computing and therefore choosing the right machine to run NX is a very important consideration if you want to complete job in a timely fashion. This means that NX is more than just a design package, but also a system for engineering simulation and manufacturing. Siemens NX brings these highly specialised, high-end CAD, CAM,CAE and PLM functions to desktop workstations. ![]() While software like AutoCAD serves the vast majority of design needs for large sections of the design and engineering industry, there is still a lot of scope for truly high-end design applications. ![]()
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