Back in August, NVIDIA sneaked us a couple of deets about its curious Maximus project , now the joint CPU/GPU card is officially able to rev-up your work-flow. The belief is easy: dramatically improve productivity via one system to deal with the graphics together with the processing to deliver it. You may say it has got the appearance and the brains. By melding the graphics ham of its Quadpro GPUs with the cheesy smarts from the Tesla C2075, NVIDIA has made one epic processing sandwich that ‘transparently’ delegates tasks to the ideal processor; also expect to work out Maximus-optimized applications from the likes of Adobe and Bunkspeed within the not-too-distant future. Workstations can supe-up their core immediately, but whether the Maximus will ever be accompanied by a companion Biggus Diskus is unclear.
Breakthrough Technology Delivers New Era of Speed and Productivity for Millions of Design and artistic Professionals
SANTA CLARA, CA — (Marketwire) — 11/14/2011 — After 25 years of design and inventive professionals anticipating a workstation that simultaneously performs complex analysis and visualization, NVIDIA announced today its arrival, with the introduction of NVIDIA® Maximus™ technology.
The brand new offering unleashes productivity and creativity, dramatically accelerating work by enabling a single system for the primary time to simultaneously handle interactive graphics and the compute-intensive number crunching linked to the simulation or rendering of the consequences. These previously had to be done in separate steps or on separate systems.
NVIDIA Maximus achieves this by bringing together the pro 3D graphics capability of NVIDIA Quadro® professional graphics processing units (GPUs) with the large parallel-computing power of the NVIDIA Tesla™ C2075 companion processor — under a unified technology that transparently assigns work to the proper processor and is certified by industry leading application vendors.
“To these folks who’ve spent their careers desirous about workstations, NVIDIA Maximus represents a revolution,” said Jeff Brown, general manager, Professional Solutions Group, NVIDIA. “Previous workstation architectures forced designers and engineers to do compute-intensive work and graphics-intensive work serially and frequently offline. They could now do them jointly, at the same machine, allowing professionals to explore more ideas faster and converge quickly at the best answers.”
With NVIDIA Maximus-enabled applications — which include those from Adobe, ANSYS, Autodesk, Bunkspeed, Dassault Systèmes and MathWorks — GPU compute work is assigned to run at the NVIDIA Tesla companion processor. This frees up the NVIDIA Quadro GPU to address graphics functions, ensuring the standard and function demanded by professional users.
“The true benefit of the Maximus technology is flexibility and increased productivity,” said Tim Ong, vp of Mechanical Engineering for Sunnyvale, CA-based Liquid Robotics. “Allowing each engineer to do multiple things straight away is transformative for our workflow. It is a tremendous tool to permit my engineers to be flexible, to multitask, and to be more productive because they don’t seem to be waiting on computational power.”
NVIDIA Maximus Technology Immediately Available
The world’s leading workstation OEMs — including HP, Dell, Lenovo, and Fujitsu — are all offering workstations featuring NVIDIA Maximus technology, available for configuration and buy immediately.
NVIDIA Maximus desktop workstation configurations start with the pairing of the NVIDIA Quadro 600 ($199 MSRP, USD) + NVIDIA Tesla C2075 ($2,499 MSRP, USD).
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Product Design, Styling and Visualization
“Autodesk’s 3ds Max 2012 has received top scores by reviewers, and among the many reasons they cite is the recent iray photorealistic renderer from NVIDIA. We’ve taken this to a different level with our announcement of the ActiveShade integration with iray — giving our subscription users an interactive rendering experience — especially in the event that they are using an NVIDIA Quadro GPU, or the brand new NVIDIA Maximus solution that’s as much as 9X faster than a single CPU.”
-Ken Pimentel, director, Media Design, Autodesk
“Bunkspeed PRO 2012 combines Bunkspeed Shot PRO and Bunkspeed Move PRO into one easy to make use of interactive ray tracing package built on CUDA powered NVIDIA iray. NVIDIA Maximus powered workstations allow designers, engineers, marketers and designers to render their 3D models with Bunkspeed PRO as much as 8x faster than on CPUs alone, with a complete new level of realism and interactivity.”
-Philip Lunn, founder and CEO, Bunkspeed
“By harnessing the ability of GPU computing we’ve been ready to create a more productive, high-performance, interactive user experience and, jointly, dramatically increase the realism of visualization tools available for designers and engineers within CATIA V6. With NVIDIA Maximus, users could be capable of experience the total power of those new visualization tools of their product design workflow.”
-Xavier Melkonian, director, CATIA Shape Domain, Dassault Systèmes
Engineering Simulation
“GPU computing can dramatically accelerate ANSYS engineering software simulations on workstations, every so often doubling the variety of simulations that may be considered and helping customers to adopt more pervasive use of engineering simulation. With NVIDIA Maximus platforms widely available, enterprises can now more easily profit from ANSYS at their desk for both interactive and computationally intensive tasks.”
-Barbara Hutchings, director of strategic partnerships at ANSYS
Digital Video Content Creation
“Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS5.5 and the Adobe Mercury Playback Engine accelerated by NVIDIA GPUs continue to guide the industry with exceptional performance in non-linear editing. NVIDIA Maximus enables video professionals to create complex, multiple-layer projects faster, further increasing their productivity and empowering their creativity.”
-Bill Roberts, director of pro video and audio product management, Adobe
Technical Computing
“MATLAB users wish to make the most GPUs to succeed in significant speed-up in their applications quickly and simply, without making major changes to their MATLAB code. The wide availability of pre-qualified NVIDIA Maximus systems for MATLAB gives our users access to commodity platforms that deliver great productivity.”
-Loren Dean, director of Engineering, MATLAB Products, MathWorks
Workstation OEMs
“HP’s Z Workstations meet the desires of a few of the main compute-intensive industries on the planet. With NVIDIA Maximus technology, HP is providing a strong, new performance solution a good way to enable our customers to design and analyze more efficiently, ultimately increasing ROI.”
-Jeff Wood, vp, Worldwide Marketing, Commercial Solutions, HP
HP entry-level Z400 and top-of-the road Z800 workstations come in now worldwide.
“NVIDIA Maximus enables our customers to accelerate their visualization and complicated parallel workloads. When combined with Dell Precision workstation solutions, our design, research and digital content creation customers can increase their interactivity, productivity and inventive freedom.”
-Greg Weir, marketing director, Dell Precision Workstation Product and ISV Marketing
Dell Precision T5500, R5500, and T7500 can be found now worldwide.1
“Application acceleration accelerates the design process and product delivery, and with NVIDIA Maximus on Lenovo ThinkStations, users have the parallel processing power they must boost productivity, creativity, and time-to-market. NVIDIA Maximus-class ThinkStation S20, C20, and D20 workstations transform workflows with computing and visualization capabilities that empower engineers, designers and digital content creators to succeed in amazing results exponentially faster.”
-Rob Herman, director of Product and Vertical Solutions, ThinkStation Business Unit, Lenovo
Lenovo ThinkStation S20, C20 and D20 workstations can be found now worldwide.
“Our advanced and superior line of Fujitsu CELSIUS workstations, including our CELSIUS M and R series, become much more powerful and flexible performers with NVIDIA Maximus technology. Our customers demand one of the most innovative technology for driving the brand new generation of high-performance 3D modeling, animation, real-time visualization, analysis, and simulation applications — NVIDIA Maximus-powered CELSIUS workstations provide the customized visualization plus computation performance they want.”
-Dieter Heiss, head of Workplace Systems at Fujitsu Technology Solutions
Fujitsu CELSIUS M470, R570 and R670 workstations can be found now in EMEAI and Japan.
For additional information about NVIDIA Maximus Technology, visit: www.nvidia.com/maximus.
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About NVIDIA
NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) awakened the sector to special effects when it invented the GPU in 1999. Today, its processors power a broad range of goods from smart phones to supercomputers. NVIDIA’s mobile processors are utilized in mobile phones, tablets and auto infotainment systems. PC gamers have faith in GPUs to enjoy spectacularly immersive worlds. Professionals use them to create visual effects in movies and design everything from golf clubs to jumbo jets. And researchers utilize GPUs to advance the frontiers of science with high-performance computing. The corporate holds greater than 2,100 patents worldwide, including ones covering ideas necessary to modern computing. For additional information, see www.nvidia.com.
1Dell shall be offering NVIDIA Maximus technology on its Dell Precision T5500 and T7500 tower workstations and Dell Precision R5500 rack workstation. Upon availability of ISV certifications of the NVIDIA Maximus driver, users can download the motive force to enable NVIDIA Maximus from Dell.com.
Certain statements on this press release including, but not limited to statements as to: the supply, pricing, impact and benefits of NVIDIA Maximus technology, NVIDIA Quadro GPUs, and NVIDIA Tesla GPUs; and the results of the company’s patents on modern computing are forward-looking statements which might be subject to risks and uncertainties that can cause results to be materially different than expectations. Important factors which could cause actual results to vary materially include: global economic conditions; our reliance on third parties to fabricate, assemble, package and test our products; the impact of technological development and competition; development of latest products and technologies or enhancements to our existing product and technologies; market acceptance of our products or our partners products; design, manufacturing or software defects; changes in consumer preferences or demands; changes in industry standards and interfaces; unexpected lack of performance of our products or technologies when integrated into systems; in addition to other factors detailed every now and then within the reports NVIDIA files with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, including its Form 10-Q for the fiscal period ended July 31, 2011. Copies of stories filed with the SEC are posted at the company’s website and come from NVIDIA for free of charge. These forward-looking statements aren’t guarantees of future performance and speak only as of the date hereof, and, except as required by law, NVIDIA disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements to mirror future events or circumstances.
© 2011 NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved. NVIDIA, the NVIDIA logo, CUDA, iray, Maximus, Quadro, and Tesla are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation inside the U.S. and other countries. Other company and product names may well be trademarks of the respective companies with which they’re associated. Features, pricing, availability, and specifications are subject to switch abruptly.
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