Hardware

Autodesk takes lead in harnessing graphics power for CPU tasks

Posted by Greg Corke - June 24, 2009

Over the past couple of years there’s been an incredible amount of hype surrounding the use of GPUs (Graphics Processing…

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Visualisation

Do graphics cards hold the secret to photorealistic real time rendering?

Posted by Greg Corke - July 27, 2009

Last week I saw a very slick demo of a brand new rendering, animation and composition package called MachStudio Pro…

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News

Siggraph 2010 #1: promises, promises

Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 28, 2010

Nvidia’s new 3D Vision Pro, one of the many new 3D technologies on show The show floor opened Tuesday in…

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Siggraph 2010 #2: GPU, CPU, HPU. Who cares?

Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 29, 2010

At Siggraph 2010, a not-so-subtle battle is taking place. It’s the battle of the graphics computing future. Depending on whom…

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News

Ansys uses Nvidia Tesla GPUs to accelerate engineering simulations on the desktop

Posted by Greg Corke - September 21, 2010

Back in May Nvidia told DEVELOP3D that there was going to be some big news later this year regarding some…

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News

Clouds gather for GPU-based rendering

Posted by Greg Corke - February 3, 2011

Bunkspeed’s Cloud Solution helps users publish interactive photorealistic scenes or 3D content to the Web. Image modelled in SolidWorks, rendered…

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News

Nvidia Maximus looks to bring order to GPU compute workflows for simulation and rendering

Posted by Greg Corke - November 14, 2011

Nvidia Maximus consists of a Quadro graphics card and a Tesla GPU compute board, tied together by a unified driver…

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SIGGRAPH 2012 #2: AMD FirePro W Series graphics

Posted by Greg Corke - August 7, 2012

AMD FirePro W7000 graphics card – designed for high-end CAD SIGGRAPH wouldn’t be SIGGRAPH without some major new professional graphics…

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SIGGRAPH 2012 #3: AMD’s all-in-one FirePro GPU / CPU

Posted by Greg Corke - August 7, 2012

AMD FirePro A300 Series features an AMD FirePro GPU and an AMD ‘Piledriver’ x86 CPU on the same chip. In…

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News

SIGGRAPH 2012 #5: Nvidia unveils Maximus on Kepler

Posted by Greg Corke - August 7, 2012

The new Nvidia Quadro K5000 features 4GB of ECC memory and four display outputs (2 x DisplayPort + 2 x…

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