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Tuesday, August 7 9:30am - 6pm Wednesday, August 8 9:30am - 6pm Thursday, August 9 9:30am - 3:30pm

RENDERING PERFORMANCE JUMPS TO REAL-TIME LEVELS

Rendering is the cornerstone of 3D creativity and the most performance-driven task in the production pipeline. From animation and visual effects to automotive and architectural design, the fastest way to streamline creative workflow is accelerate rendering to interactive speeds without sacrificing image quality. NVIDIA has taken a major step forward in this regard by demonstrating its next-generation, near-real-time, high-quality rendering product with performance improvements capable of re-lighting 60 frames of a complex scene in 60 seconds.¹ Along with a new release of NVIDIA® Gelato® 2.2 GPU-accelerated software renderer and the announcement of the NVIDIA Quadro® Plex Visual Computing System (VCS) Model S4 1U graphics server, this advanced technology demonstration shows NVIDIA’s continued technical leadership in the field of high-quality rendering.

Also at SIGGRAPH 2007, NVIDIA is featuring The Plush Life, a new animated 3D short film by the NVIDIA Digital Film Group, showcases many of the advanced rendering features of Gelato 2.2, emphasizing the latest hair and velvet shader technology and impressive image quality that can be achieved with Gelato software.
View The Plush Life

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NVIDIA: The Era of the Personal Supercomputer
Until now, a supercomputer was anything but personal. As many complex, data-intensive applications required the power of a clustered server environment, users would wait hours or days for the back room to get them their results. With the introduction of a new range of high-performance computing solutions for workstations, suddenly users have massive computing power quite literally at their fingertips.

With the recent GPU architecture advances in NVIDIA Quadro® graphics solutions, the introduction of Tesla™ high performance computing solutions, coupled with the appropriate software tools, the workstation is now a “personal supercomputer.”

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