Archicad 10 is announced

[Greg Kmethy]

Dear Talkers,

You can read Graphisoft's announcement on Archicad 10 here:
http://www.graphisoft.com/products/archicad/ac10/

[Anonymous]

oreopoulos wrote:
ofcourse its too much to ask for multicore support
Although multicores are almost a standard nowdays, and will be the only solution in a year from now.

I think this is one of the roads that GS cannot ignore (i hope so at least)

Now that Macs are on Intel there is only one multi-processor technology. Lets hope this paves the way for multi-core aware ArchiCAD.

[Karl Ottenstein]

Matthew wrote:
Now that Macs are on Intel there is only one multi-processor technology. Lets hope this paves the way for multi-core aware ArchiCAD.

Unfortunately, the shared use of Intel chips offers little assistance in the road to multiprocessor aware cross-platform applications, since it is OS X and Windows that provide the needed functionality. From a programming point of view, multi-G5's are not much different than multiple Pentiums/Zeons... it is all an OS thing at the application level.

Karl

[Anonymous]

Hello Karl,

I am very interrested what you think about AC10.
Did you make experiance with AC 10?
What about your impression?
Will you urgently advice to update?

[Anonymous]

Karl wrote:

Matthew wrote:
Now that Macs are on Intel there is only one multi-processor technology. Lets hope this paves the way for multi-core aware ArchiCAD.

Unfortunately, the shared use of Intel chips offers little assistance in the road to multiprocessor aware cross-platform applications, since it is OS X and Windows that provide the needed functionality. From a programming point of view, multi-G5's are not much different than multiple Pentiums/Zeons... it is all an OS thing at the application level.

Karl

Shows what I know. Too bad
I guess we can still hope. Pretty soon everyone will have multi-core/processor machines. Maybe that will be incentive enough.

[Anonymous]

As Karl says, the problem is not with hardware.
I would even say it has nothing to do with the OS.

All programs are written based on a basic sdk that acts as a base interface. So actually you only need to have a bunch of basic basic functions multiproccessor aware. Everything you build by those functions would be multiproccessor aware.

For example you may have a matrix multiplication procedure. This could be mutliproccessor aware. Then every simple affine transformation would be multiproccessor aware because it basically uses the mult procedure.

I dont know how many procedures need to be writen to be multiproccessor aware, but this list is not that.... long.

I think multicore capability and vb-like scripting should be in the next AC.

GS is already too late to that part.