Crossword clues for workstation
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 a desktop computer, normally more powerful than a normal PC and often dedicated to a specific task, such as graphics 2 an area, at a workplace, for a single worker
WordNet
n. a desktop digital computer that is conventionally considered to be more powerful than a microcomputer
Wikipedia
A workstation is a special computer designed for technical or scientific applications. Intended primarily to be used by one person at a time, they are commonly connected to a local area network and run multi-user operating systems. The term workstation has also been used loosely to refer to everything from a mainframe computer terminal to a PC connected to a network, but the most common form refers to the group of hardware offered by several current and defunct companies such as Sun Microsystems, Silicon Graphics, Apollo Computer, DEC, HP and IBM which opened the door for the 3D graphics animation revolution of the late 1990s.
Workstations offered higher performance than mainstream personal computers, especially with respect to CPU and graphics, memory capacity, and multitasking capability. Workstations were optimized for the visualization and manipulation of different types of complex data such as 3D mechanical design, engineering simulation (e.g., computational fluid dynamics), animation and rendering of images, and mathematical plots. Typically, the form factor is that of a desktop computer, consist of a high resolution display, a keyboard and a mouse at a minimum, but also offer multiple displays, graphics tablets, 3D mice (devices for manipulating 3D objects and navigating scenes), etc. Workstations were the first segment of the computer market to present advanced accessories and collaboration tools.
The increasing capabilities of mainstream PCs in the late 1990s have blurred the lines somewhat with technical/scientific workstations . The workstation market previously employed proprietary hardware which made them distinct from PCs; for instance IBM used RISC-based CPUs for its workstations and Intel x86 CPUs for its business/consumer PCs during the 1990s and 2000s. However, by the early 2000s this difference disappeared, as workstations now use highly commoditized hardware dominated by large PC vendors, such as Dell and HP & Fujitsu, selling Microsoft Windows or GNU/ Linux systems running on x86-64 architecture such as Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron CPUs.
Usage examples of "workstation".
Four tables with sinks and other apparatuses dwelled in the room, resembling chemistry or biology workstations.
Above my workstation, a pinwheel spins lazily in the draft of the ventilation system.
I crossed the room as fast as I could, creeping along low to the ground, my hands outstretched to keep from smashing into a workstation.
Ogle was just in the process of computerizing his whole operation, buying big high-powered Calyx workstations from Pacific Netware, and those unsightly holes in the plaster made installation a snap.
She faced a warren of desks and workstations, most occupied by obviously busy people who barely looked up as she entered.
In all that vast complex of workstations, boarding areas, launchpads, supply rooms, and communications gear, he was alone.
Most work in bland, shoulder-height cubicles, tapping away at a UNIX system built by Sun Microsystems or at a Dell workstation.
Making a photorealistic hologram of an imaginary object taxed the most powerful graphical workstation.
There was a note in the package saying that Parsons had the photos in a computer file and that any of them could be blown up on one of their Sun workstations and reprinted to whatever level of detail he wanted.
The workstations used by the analysis staff were protected in several ways to make sure they could not be turned on without authorization.
Several hours after the conclusion of the State of the Union address, at 06:00:00 GMT, a digitized chord sounded from one of the workstations, waking Otis up.
Zeldo and a couple of other slangy pizza-eating beards from America had laid claim to one end of Building 1 and set up their own little outpost of heavy metal music and novelty foam-rubber sledgehammers for pounding on their workstations when they got frustrated.
No odors, no fluids, just images on TV monitors, tracings on oscilloscopes, graphics on their Calyx workstations, and the occasional disembodied sound effect coming out of a speaker.
Machinery overloaded and exploded, workstations malfunctioned and shut down, and all through the ship the members of the crew fell to their knees, clutching at their heads as unfamiliar thoughts crashed through their minds.
People not strapped into seats clung to their workstations to avoid being dragged away.