NVIDIA Unveils Premiere Visual Computing Appliance

March 19, 2013 by Mercedes Milligan No Comments

Computer hardware firm NVIDIA debuted an industry first at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, Calif. this week: a Visual Computing Appliance (VCA), a new device that will enable small and medium sized businesses to enhance GPU performance on any Windows, Linux or Mac client on their network. The [...]

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Pixar Releases RenderMan Pro Server, Studio Updates

October 5, 2012 by Mercedes Milligan No Comments

Pixar Animation Studios has announced the simultaneous releases of RenderMan Pro Server 17.0 and RenderMan Studio 4.0, extensively upgrading the Oscar-winning render software widely regarded as the industry standard for high-quality animation and photorealistic vfx. Highlights of the version updates for Pro Server 17.0 include significant performance gains including object [...]

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Pixar Unleashes RenderMan Pro Server 16.0

May 10, 2011 by Ramin Zahed No Comments

Pixar Animation Studios has released version 16.0 of its Oscar-winning RenderMan Pro Server software. The new release offers innovative advancements in ray tracing technology, including a new ray tracing hider, a radiosity cache and physically plausible shading. These features allow RenderMan to take full advantage of the ever-increasing processing power [...]

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