NVIDIA
Professional "Off-the-Shelf" Solutions Signal a New Era of Computing
for Technical Applications such as VizSim, Medical Imaging, Science,
Film and Video, Automotive, and Aerospace
SIGGRAPH 2005-LOS ANGELES-AUGUST 1, 2005-NVIDIA
Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), a worldwide leader in graphics and digital
media processors, today introduced a new range of scalable visual
computing platforms. These new platforms signal a fundamental shift in
the market from legacy solutions that are prohibitively expensive to
install and maintain, to standardized platforms that scale efficiently
over time.
These standardized platforms feature a wide range of NVIDIA industry solutions that include:
- NVIDIA Quadro commercial off the shelf (COTS) graphics solutions
- NVIDIA nForce Professional media and communications processors (MCPs)
- NVIDIA ForceWare unified driver architecture (UDA)
- NVIDIA Gelato rendering software
- NVIDIA Scene Graph software
At SIGGRAPH 2005, NVIDIA will showcase examples of platforms that will reshape industries:
- Scientific Visualization - An immersive
visualization dome showing interactive real time and rendered content,
created and displayed at the Hayden Planetarium in the Rose Center for
Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History in New York
City, and found in many of the world’s leading planetariums – all
displayed using a single AMD Opteron-based HP xw9300 workstation.
Designed and engineered by Elumenati using projection technology from
Elumens and Christie, the dome offers SIGGRAPH attendees an array of
high-definition visual experiences, ranging from the smallest molecules
to the largest galaxies in the universe.
- Film and Broadcast - A digital production pipeline
enabling the creation, finishing, and delivery of cutting edge content
leveraging the same digital assets throughout the entire high
precision, FP16 OpenEXR formatted pipeline with NVIDIA Gelato and
Sorbetto rendering and relighting technology, and the NVIDIA Quadro FX
4000 SDI integrated graphics-to-video solution delivering high
definition 10-bit uncompressed SDI content.
- Automotive Styling and Design - A six system
visualization cluster that uses the NVIDIA Quadro G-Sync option board
to framelock six high resolution projection displays and run an
interactive automotive styling application from Realtime Technology.
"Realtime Technology designs real-time visualization technologies,
services and solutions for automotive and aircraft clients, such as
Porsche, Airbus, BMW, and DaimlerChrysler," said Ludwig A. Fuchs,
co-founder and CTO of Realtime Technology. "NVIDIA platforms allow
these customers to deploy standardized prototyping and demonstration
systems that can be widely deployed across an organization. These
systems are far more cost-effective and scalable than the legacy
proprietary systems they are quickly replacing."
These NVIDIA nForce Professional-based solutions employ the latest
NVIDIA Quadro graphics to deliver a level of compute power never before
found in "off the shelf" workstations. These platforms incorporate
NVIDIA hardware and software technology designed to meet the needs of
customers in markets where performance and image quality requirements
are paramount.
"NVIDIA is addressing the needs of the most demanding users, all of
whom expect optimal customized, yet readily available solutions,
engineered for high-performance and reliability," stated Gautam Shah,
president of Colfax International. "As technology evolves, so must the
solutions, and we are seeing our customers move towards COTS-based
systems to replace their legacy systems, at a fraction of the cost."
These NVIDIA platforms are now available widely through leading OEMs
and NVIDIA channel partners PNY Technologies (US and EMEA), Leadtek
(APAC), and Elsa (Japan). For more information on this and the full
lineup of NVIDIA professional solutions, please visit www.nvidia.com/quadro.
Source: nVIDIA Press Release
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