NVIDIA RealityServer Propels 3D Cloud
Computing Using
GPUs
First of
its kind GPU-based cloud
computing solution provides interactive,
photorealistic
3D applications
accessible from any Web connected device
Web 2.0
Summit, SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.— Oct. 21, 2009— NVIDIA,
inventor of the graphics processing unit
(GPU), and mental images, world leader in rendering
technologies,
introduced today the NVIDIA®
RealityServer®
platform for cloud computing, a
powerful combination of GPUs and software that streams interactive,
photorealistic 3D applications to any web connected PC, laptop, netbook
and
smart phone.
NVIDIA
RealityServer – the culmination of nearly 40 collective years
of hardware and
software engineering by NVIDIA and mental
images
– enables
developers to create a new generation of consumer and enterprise 3D web
applications, all with remarkable levels of photorealism.
·
Automobile
product engineering teams will be able to securely share and visualize
complex
3D models of cars under different lighting and environmental
conditions.
·
Architects
and their clients will be able to review sophisticated architectural
models,
rendered in different settings, including day or night.
·
Online
shoppers will be able to interactively design home interiors, rearrange
furniture, and view how fabrics will drape, all with perfectly accurate
lighting.
The
NVIDIA
RealityServer platform is comprised of an NVIDIA®
Tesla™ RS
GPU-based
server running RealityServer
software from mental images. While
photorealistic imagery has traditionally taken hours or days to create,
this
first-of-its-kind, integrated solution streams images of photorealistic
scenes
at rates approaching an interactive gaming experience.
“This is one giant leap closer
to the goal of real-time photorealistic visual computing for the
masses,” said
Dan Vivoli, senior vice president, NVIDIA. “mental
images fully embraced the concept of GPU co-processing to enable
Interactive
photorealism anywhere, any time – something that was science
fiction just
yesterday.”
RealityServer
software utilizes mental images iray®
technology,
the world’s first physically correct ray-tracing renderer
that employs the
massively parallel CUDA™
architecture
of NVIDIA GPUs to create stunningly accurate
photorealistic images by simulating the physics of light in its
interaction
with matter. Because ray tracing is one of the most
demanding
computational problems, iray technology is designed to take advantage
of the
parallel computing power of NVIDIA Tesla.
”Everyone should experience
the
web the way they experience the world, in 3D,” said Rolf
Herken, CEO and CTO of
mental images. “RealityServer offers extraordinary
opportunities and
far-reaching implications for businesses and consumers, enabling us to
interact
with 3D content in the form and manner that our brains
expect.”
