Pro/ENGINEER under Linux?

Adam Winnington asks: "I've been considering loading Pro/E on some of the new Dell Precision 610's that we have just recently received. However, I don't see E&S video drivers for linux or anything from PTC about it. Has anyone done this, or must I install Windows NT?"

duh...

[Zurk]

proe works with mesaGL (i.e. opengl functionality on X) or without it (altho it wont do shaded 3d spinning of objects..only wireframe). the drivers probably wont be a problem if you can get linux binary code. i usually use my proe (ver 22) from my linux box using an X window to a high powered SGI machine.

Pro E

[Hynman]

Last I heard, It was single threaded and could not use multiple CPUs. Has this been fixed?

And which is better Dual CPU NT or Dual CPU Linux?
(Is there a major difference in the platform/proe SMP? that would make Linux or NT better?)

Thanks

Lobby ProE

[erwin]

Our PTC rep said that they're looking to port ProE to Linux, but that was 4 months ago. I told him we've love to be a beta site, but I've never heard any followup.

With SGI support Linux in a big way, maybe that will shake them up a bit. If you want it, I think we need to lobby them for it.

Interestingly, we did some benchmarking of a new SGI visual Workstation(NT), a Compaq AP500 workstation(NT), an SGI Octane (250Mhz) (IRIX), an 500Mhz Alpha box (DEC Unix) and an aging SGI IndigoII(IRIX). As you'd expect, the Alpha stopmed all over eveything. The AP500s, however, returned better results than the SGI VW, both running NT. and the AP500s are 10-20% cheaper for comperable configurations.

They are, however, butt-ugly.

You can get 2-3 machines (either SGI or Compaq) for the price of a single Alpha station, but NT sucks, so that brings us back to Linux.....PTC, are you listening?!?!