IT notebook: Intergraph, SEEK, NeCTAR
2 May 2012
SMARTPLANT 3D engineering design software author Intergraph has released an updated version of its AutoCAD-based, intelligent 3D plant design and modelling suite, CADWorx.
CADWorx Plant Professional 2013 is said to significantly improve the plant design and deliverables creation process for its users.
“For example, CADWorx Plant Professional 2013 features a powerful new pipe routing engine,” the software company said.
“The piping components operate as a single system, allowing a plant designer to move, resize and change the specification as a single line without the need to modify each component individually. Piping is intuitive – as a line is built, it understands how to fit each component to the next and automatically adjusts to match. This allows a designer to perform modifications on lines with minimal effort while ensuring that the entire line has been properly adjusted.”
CADWorx 2013’s routing tools and intuitive components reduced design times, while new change-size and routing capabilities allowed faster modifications and edits.
Intergraph has also added an ‘Assembly View Palette’, which it described as a feature new to the plant design market.
“The assembly builder lets a designer build and save a complete assembly of a piping system that can be re-used in the future parametrically. This feature boosts the efficiency of design by allowing for common assemblies used throughout a project to be designed, developed and modelled once, then re-used quickly in different areas of the plant system,” the company said.
LEADING Australian job-seeking site SEEK has available a new iPhone app which allows job hunters to expand their search.
“With 20% of all visits to SEEK coming from mobiles and more than 130,000 job applications started on mobile each month, we want to provide jobseekers with the easiest way to find their ideal job – anywhere, anytime,” the company’s product director Doug Blue said.
SEEK claims it had 7.9 million visits to its mobile website in the past three months.
“With 77% of all visits to our mobile site coming from iPhone users, developing an iPhone app was an obvious choice,” Blue said.
The SEEK Jobs app for iPhone matches new job ads to saved searches so jobseekers are notified of new roles as soon as they are posted. Jobseekers can sign in to their account and see all the new roles that match their criteria.
The app can be downloaded free on the App Store on iPhone.
AN Australian-first ‘research cloud’ launched earlier this year is shaping as a model project for similar ambitious knowledge-sharing strategies. Commissioned at the end of January at the University of Melbourne in Victoria, the first node of the NeCTAR National Research Cloudis said to already have 500 users, each with a free, single sign-on, two-core allocation provided to resource trial projects over three months and establish future processing, networking and storage requirements and budgets.
Described as an Australian first allowing researchers to access scalable computational power, research applications and storage, “empowering them to easily share knowledge across institutional and international boundaries”, NeCTAR (National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources Research Cloud) is said to enable researchers of all disciplines to easily put their ideas, tools, research applications and data online instantly.
“In equipping researchers with new self-service abilities to share, compute and publish data, it fosters innovation in research software applications and services by reducing barriers to rapid deployment and sharing of applications,” the University of Melbourne said in a press statement.
The university was commissioned by the Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education (DIISRTE) to host and install the first node of the NeCTAR research cloud. Additional nodes of the cloud will be built by other universities and research institutions throughout 2012.
Melbourne-headquartered Xenon Systems won the initial NeCTAR tender for computer servers. The University of Melbourne uses two data centres for the project, which currently operates 3840 cores and is expected to reach 25,000 cores nationally during the next 18 months.
“Cloud technology and NeCTAR’s new research cloud allows Australian researchers a place where they can easily put their top ideas, software applications, tools and data online, instantly, without the burden and cost of having to build and run their own computer,” said Dr Steven Manos, head of Information Technology Services Research Services at the University of Melbourne.
Also in the May 2 - 8, 2012 edition
- AFRICA
- Drake drill starts to turn
- Investors selling Gryphon short?
- ASIA DESK
- Rarely a dull moment
- CABBIE'S CORNER
- Mirabela meter continues to run … but where to next?
- COAL
- Bob Cameron revisits early PRB attraction
- EUROPE
- Chinese buying a catalyst for platinum gains
- FINANCE
- Crunch time coming for Hawsons partner
- Night follows Day
- The search for a deal
- FROM THE CAPITAL
- World faces promising outlook if European risks are overcome
- GOLD
- Teranga value uplift in sight
- HEAVY METAL
- ‘Solution factories’ mark SKF turning point
- INTERCEPTS
- $6B green light for Cobre Panama
- $A16M bill shocks for Murchison
- Altura works towards revised lithium resource
- Another major Magma shareholder accepts Panoramic bid
- Appeal fails to stop ResGen’s coal project
- Aquila welcomes Anketell port progress
- Arafura signs Nolans project MoU
- Arrowstar forges new iron ore path
- Aussie Q gets cash to re-start drilling
- ‘New’ Endeavour beats guidance
- BHP shuffles nickel, aluminium control
- Centamin on track for 250,000oz annual production
- Chalice signs Eritrean project development deal
- Churchill appeals over Kalimantan project
- Claim relief for Murchison
- Coalspur gets a lift from Vista Extension
- Coalworks urges no action on Whitehaven bid
- Consultant takes top Marenica role
- Copper Strike turns to African mineral sands
- Court clears way for Ebenezer coal revival
- Crocodile snaps up more Aussies
- DFS launched on Eyre Peninsula project
- Early iron ore start mooted for Barnes Hill
- Eldorado tracks 1.5Moz gold target for 2016
- Emu abandons antimony acquisition
- ENRC sidesteps demerger reports
- Equipment delays smash Golden Minerals’ production
- Erongo moves in DR Congo
- Execs calm Mongolian foreign ownership fears
- Firestone wins financial backing for Waterberg
- Funds allow Alcyone to accelerate Texas growth
- Gold Anomaly secures project funding deal
- Gold explorer taps new coal province
- Gold flows again in Greenland
- Hamilton to head Quest
- Harmony Gold hammered by lower production, higher costs
- Iluka cuts production, sales forecasts
- Johnston Range iron ore project on the Radar
- Kagara creditors line up
- Kanyika niobium project moves closer to production
- Kasbah cashes up for Moroccan tin development
- Kibaran tracks Tanzanian graphite project
- Kibo signs MoU on Tanzania property
- Kinross says still on 2012 target
- Kooragang Island leaks cost Orica
- Kryso ups gold resource to 5Moz-plus
- Leighton sticks by profit guidance
- Leighton tapped for Fortescue’s Solomon mining contract
- Loss despite record silver production
- Mali coup hangover stops Avion expansion
- Masbate boosts gold reserves past 5Moz
- Metal Bank swoops on Bowen Basin tenements
- Minco ponders long-life Woodstock mine
- Mindoro considering deals to develop Agata nickel project
- Mine demand lifts Barloworld profit
- Minotaur sets Poochera target
- New group wins BHP scope of works deal
- New leader for Chameleon manganese project
- New techniques aid Ventnor WA ore search
- Old stockpiles yield copper-gold resource
- Panoramic nabs cast-off PGM project
- Paradise a step closer for Rey
- PFS good news for Greenland’s uranium project
- Placement funds Apollo’s iron ore project
- Rapid growth continues at MacPherson’s Nimbus
- Record quarter, good guidance from San Gold
- Resource upgrade lifts Elemental confidence
- Rio Tinto links dominate Ivanhoe board
- Runruno on pace for Metals Exploration
- Sale frees Syrah for graphite exploration
- Sales JV wins higher prices for SNR
- Settlement rejection stymies Canadian gold/copper project exploration
- Shareholder funds Mt Garnet tin study
- Southern Cross set to go at Marda
- Southern Cross strengthens its WA regional reach
- Sweden: no action against Beowulf
- Tawana tracking new Liberian prospects
- The cost of becoming a diversified base metals company
- Thiess wins Kalimantan coal contract
- Thompson Creek on big cash raising
- Thundelarra claims Red Bore interest
- Tigers Realm lifts Russian coal resource
- Tintina files Black Butte technical report
- Torex ready to finalise Mexican gold mine plan
- Tri-River’s big potash acquisitions track slowly
- Trial mining for Korella rock phosphate project
- Tudor to head Exalt’s Indonesian push
- Vale sells out of the kaolin business
- Village positive after Q3 production slump
- WDR boosts its Roper Bar iron resources
- Whitehaven makes its pitch for Coalworks
- ISSUES
- Report highlights staggering cost of mental illness
- MINING
- Moore about getting on with the job
- MINING INTELLIGENCE
- Productivity and safety – can you have your cake and eat it?
- MINING IT
- Mining assaut all in the planning
- PEOPLE
- People on the move: Vale, Aldridge Minerals, Hodges Resources, Lodestar, Ivanhoe Mines, Orsu Metals
- PROJECT WATCH
- Parker Range awaits a berth
- UnCUT
- Plenty of surprises in store … not
- VIEW FROM THE WEST END
- Skills and thrills