A dozen uncompressed 1080p video feeds, simultaneously running off a single workstation. Yep, you are looking at it. NVIDIA’s showcase piece here at SIGGRAPH was undoubtedly this wall — a monster that trumps even Intel’s CES wall in the case of underlying horsepower. a comparatively stock HP Z800 workstation was loaded with the NVIDIA QuadroPlex 7000 Visual Computing System (that’s four GPUs, for those counting) if you want to push four HD panels. a couple of Fusion-io’s ioDrive Duos were pushing a complete of 3 gigabytes per second, enabling all 12 of the feeds to cycle through with nary a touch of lag. We’re still many years out from this being affordable enough for the average Earthling, but who says you should wait that long to get a taste? Vid’s after the break, hombre.
Innovative Industry Leaders Unlock Performance to Unleash Creativity in Digital Content Creation Tools Showcased at SIGGRAPH 2011
SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Fusion-io (NYSE: FIO), a provider of a next-generation shared data decentralization platform, today announced its participation within the SIGGRAPH 2011 international conference on special effects and interactive technologies. Fusion-io is collaborating with a range of leading technology companies, including NVIDIA, Thinkbox Software and Tweak Software, to accelerate entertainment production by demonstrating full resolution, real-time digital content creation for most of the industry’s strongest applications.
“Entertainment artists who use Fusion’s ioMemory technologies can now spend more time creating and fewer time looking forward to content to load, playback and render,” said Vincent Brisebois, Fusion-io Product Manager. “Multiple SSDs configured in a RAID provides basic throughput, but struggle to supply the low latency required for delivering interactivity in powerful content creation applications. By working with our innovative partners NVIDIA, Thinkbox Software and Tweak Software, we’re helping studios and artists unlock their creativity. Now, not just can artists do more faster, but with the versatility offered by Fusion-io and our partners, studios can deal with the artistry that separates good from great.”
Inside the NVIDIA booth at SIGGRAPH, (#453), the Fusion-io video wall showcases how Fusion ioMemory technology combined with the NVIDIA QuadroPlex 7000 Visual Computing System provides the throughput essential to play 12 full HD(1080p) uncompressed video feeds simultaneously off a single workstation with interactive graphics processing unit (GPU)-based color correction. The video wall demonstration could be running on an HP Z800 workstation equipped with the NVIDIA QuadroPlex 7000 and Fusion ioMemory modules.
“Working with Fusion-io, we’ve created a magnificent, large-scale visualization technology demonstration at SIGGRAPH for show attendees,” said Jeff Brown, general manager, Professional Solutions Group, NVIDIA. “By combining Fusion’s ioMemory technology with our powerful QuadroPlex 7000, we’re demonstrating how one can enable real-time color correction and processing of a dozen simultaneous uncompressed HD video streams – without being bottlenecked by disk speeds.”
At Autodesk booth #429, Fusion ioMemory technology will accelerate demonstrations of Autodesk Composite software, that’s included inside the Autodesk 3ds Max, Autodesk Maya and Autodesk Softimage software applications. The Autodesk software packages feature integrated 3D modeling, animation, rendering, and compositing tools that enable artists and architects to quickly ramp up for production.
“Autodesk Composite software may be enhanced by technologies like Fusion ioMemory to assist artists see their visions come to life more quickly,” said Rob Hoffmann, senior product marketing manager, Autodesk. “When 3D artists can immediately see the impact of every tool and adjustment, their imagination is freed to take a look at new and innovative approaches to creative storytelling.”
Fusion ioMemory might be also integrated right into a Supermicro SuperServer 8046B-6RF server inside the Thinkbox Software Pacific Rim suite on the Fairmont hotel. This methodology provides increased speed and efficiency in demonstrations of Krakatoa, Thinkbox’s production-proven volumetric particle rendering, manipulation and management toolkit. Krakatoa provides a pipeline for creating, shaping and rendering vast quantities of particles at unprecedented speed to symbolize natural phenomena like dust, smoke, silt, ocean surface foam, plasma or even solid objects.
“We now have clients working with billions of particles per frame to create photo-real smoke, fire, water, creatures manufactured from ink, and photorealistic visualization of volumetric objects comparable to bones and skin. When saving or loading those particles, we’ve found nothing faster than Fusion-io,” said Chris Bond, Thinkbox Software CEO and founder. “We first tested Krakatoa 1.0 with Fusion-io. Once we realized the opportunity of ioMemory, we optimized Krakatoa 2.0 to use its capabilities, and now our loading performance is an order of magnitude better.”
In booth #963, Tweak Software would be utilizing ioMemory technology from Fusion-io to accelerate its flagship RV software. RV supports dual stream output for stereo playback, embeds audio within the SDI signal, and takes benefit of RV’s flexible tools for review, editing, collaboration, an notation and comparison of media. At SIGGRAPH 2011, RV could be demonstrating its integration package that mixes RV’s real-time playback with the compositing abilities of The Foundry’s Nuke software and Fusion ioMemory. The mixing allows artists to save lots of various iterations in their Nuke renders at the ioMemory after which immediately play them back in real-time in RV.
“Artists get a giant benefit by combining the blazing fast memory technologies from Fusion-io with RV’s advanced image and sequence playback abilities,” said Seth Rosenthal, co-founding father of Tweak Software. “The flexibility to stream film-res, stereo, high-dynamic-range imagery at the artist desktop or within the screening room gives artists immediate feedback in order that they have more time to aim new things and get well results. Here’s all made possible by the remarkable data throughput and reduced latency offered by Fusion-io.”
To be informed more about Fusion-io, visit www.fusionio.com. Follow Fusion-io on Twitter at www.twitter.com/fusionio or www.twitter.com/fusionioUK and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/fusionio.
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