NVIDIA, mental images Launch RealityServer for 3D Clouds
Will be available on Nov 30
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FRANCISCO, CA, Oct 21, 2009 - Web 2.0 Summit - NVIDIA, inventor of the
graphics processing unit (GPU), and mental images, world leader in rendering
technologies, introduced today the NVIDIA RealityServer platform for cloud
computing, a powerful combination of GPUs and software that streams
interactive, photorealistic 3D applications to any web connected PC, laptop,
notebook and smart phone.
NVIDIA RealityServer - the culmination of nearly 40 collective years of
hardware and software engineering by NVIDIA and mental images - enables
developers to create a new generation of consumer and enterprise 3D web
applications, all with remarkable levels of photorealism.
- Automobile product engineering teams will be able to securely share
and visualize complex 3D models of cars under different lighting and
environmental conditions.
- Architects and their clients will be able to review sophisticated
architectural models, rendered in different settings, including day or
night.
- Online shoppers will be able to interactively design home interiors,
rearrange furniture, and view how fabrics will drape, all with perfectly
accurate lighting.
The NVIDIA RealityServer platform is comprised of an NVIDIA Tesla RS
GPU-based server running RealityServer software from mental images. While
photorealistic imagery has traditionally taken hours or days to create, this
first-of-its-kind, integrated solution streams images of photorealistic
scenes at rates approaching an interactive gaming experience.
"This is one giant leap closer to the goal of real-time photorealistic
visual computing for the masses," said Dan Vivoli, senior vice president,
NVIDIA. "mental images fully embraced the concept of GPU co-processing to
enable Interactive photorealism anywhere, any time - something that was
science fiction just yesterday."
RealityServer software utilizes mental images iray technology, the
world's first physically correct ray-tracing renderer that employs the
massively parallel CUDA architecture of NVIDIA GPUs to create stunningly
accurate photorealistic images by simulating the physics of light in its
interaction with matter. Because ray tracing is one of the most demanding
computational problems, iray technology is designed to take advantage of the
parallel computing power of NVIDIA Tesla.
"Everyone should experience the web the way they experience the world, in
3D," said Rolf Herken, CEO and CTO of mental images. "RealityServer offers
extraordinary opportunities and far-reaching implications for businesses and
consumers, enabling us to interact with 3D content in the form and manner
that our brains expect."
Customer Quotes
"NVIDIA RealityServer can revolutionize marketing and sales via the web
by enabling the world to interact with virtual products in a more realistic
and unconstrained way," said David Kelly, CEO of
mydeco.com, a U.K.-based designer
furnishing site. "Our interactive 3D planner, which uses RealityServer, is
what attracts customers to mydeco, and the immersive, real-life experience
it delivers keeps them engaged."
"Some of the biggest problems we face in aviation research involve
managing and visualizing massive datasets while keeping that data secure,"
said Fernando Toledo, Manager, Virtual Reality Center, National Institute
for Aviation Research at Wichita State University. "Using NVIDIA
RealityServer for virtual prototyping, design reviews and remote
visualization solves those issues. We are extremely impressed by its
performance and ability to realistically render our large 3D CAD models over
the web without exposing our IP."
"NVIDIA RealityServer is an integral part of our 3D Scenes application on
Facebook," said Mark Zohar, CEO,
SceneCaster. "This unique and powerful GPU-based Cloud computing
solution offers exciting opportunities for the delivery of realistic 3D
applications and services."
Availability
The NVIDIA RealityServer platform will be available November 30, 2009.
Tesla RS configurations start at eight GPUs, and scale to support increasing
numbers of simultaneous users.
A developer edition of RealityServer 3.0 software will be downloadable
free of charge, including the right to deploy non-commercial applications
November 30, 2009. For more information about NVIDIA RealityServer, please
visit
www.nvidia.com/realityserver or
www.realityserver.com.
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA) awakened the world to the power of computer
graphics when it invented the graphics processing unit (GPU) in 1999. Since
then, it has consistently set new standards in visual computing with
breathtaking, interactive graphics available on devices ranging from
portable media players to notebooks to workstations. NVIDIA's expertise in
programmable GPUs has led to breakthroughs in parallel processing which make
supercomputing inexpensive and widely accessible. Fortune magazine has
ranked NVIDIA #1 in innovation in the semiconductor industry for two years
in a row. For more information, visit
www.nvidia.com.
About mental images
mental images, founded in 1986, is the recognized international leader in
providing component and platform software for the creation, manipulation and
visualization of 3D content. Its world leading rendering and other
technologies are used by the entertainment, computer-aided design,
architecture, scientific visualization, and other industries that require
sophisticated images primarily as part of their software products and
application services. mental images is a wholly-owned subsidiary of NVIDIA
Corp. with headquarters in Berlin, Germany, a subsidiary in the United
States, mental images, Inc., and a subsidiary in Melbourne, Australia,
mental images Pty. mental images has a multinational staff of top qualified
engineers exclusively dedicated to basic research and development in the
area of 3D graphics and 3D Web Applications and Services technologies. For
more information, visit
www.mentalimages.com.
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