Just out of curiosity

[Mrvile]

Let's see, I know a few, like running servers, engineer with CAD work, what about things like intensive video/sound editing and 3D graphic rendering? Any others? Sorry I don't know much about computers in the industrial field.

 

[SirBrass]

Most careers that involve computer modeling and possibly animation and rendering. This would include most engineering career fields, especially AE (aerospace engineering. this encompasses aeronautical eng., and astronautical eng.), ME, and Civ E (CE is COMPUTER ENgineering ). Though for cfd work, the engineer will obviously utilize a supercomputer cluster (since even basic cfd calculations require tens of thousands of integral iterations...yikes. more complicated ones will easilly spike into the hundreds of millions).

 

[Mrvile]

Originally posted by: SirBrass
Most careers that involve computer modeling and possibly animation and rendering. This would include most engineering career fields, especially AE (aerospace engineering. this encompasses aeronautical eng., and astronautical eng.), ME, and Civ E (CE is COMPUTER ENgineering ). Though for cfd work, the engineer will obviously utilize a supercomputer cluster (since even basic cfd calculations require tens of thousands of integral iterations...yikes. more complicated ones will easilly spike into the hundreds of millions).

What's CFD?

 

[Valkerie]

Military has computers that are no joke.

Only the elites make it past the end-user software, and onto software building. Game developers/programmers will share similar head aches.

 

[imported_Phil]

Database servers will often benefit from dual physical cores (either a dual-core chip, or two chips), as will rendering work, and anything else that's multithreaded.

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: Mrvile

Originally posted by: SirBrass
Most careers that involve computer modeling and possibly animation and rendering. This would include most engineering career fields, especially AE (aerospace engineering. this encompasses aeronautical eng., and astronautical eng.), ME, and Civ E (CE is COMPUTER ENgineering ). Though for cfd work, the engineer will obviously utilize a supercomputer cluster (since even basic cfd calculations require tens of thousands of integral iterations...yikes. more complicated ones will easilly spike into the hundreds of millions).

What's CFD?

Computational Fluid Dynamics.

Also Weather Forcasting stations, Oil Exploration, Medical Imaging, Disease and Drug reasearch, Geology, Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Aerospace (Boeing has tons of them), Control Systems, Molecular Engineering. Almost all scientific computers have a minimum of 2 cpus, most have 8 or more (32 is not uncommon)

 

[vegetation]

Modeling. The sky's the limit when we're talking about computational power in modeling, especially highly quantitative areas.

 

[biostud]

Protein Engineering, and lots of other scientific calculations.

Actually they need more than dual setups