Nvidia's RealityServer to deliver 3D apps on PCs, phones

While still working away on bringing its first DirectX 11 cards to market, Nvidia has unveiled the RealityServer platform, a cloud computing solution that it set to stream 3D applications to web-connected devices including desktops PCs, laptops, netbooks and smartphones. The RealityServer platform is basically a Tesla RS server equipped with at least 8 GPUs (it can scale up to 100+) that runs software which makes use of the mental images iray technology, the world's first physically correct ray-tracing renderer that supports CUDA. According to Nvidia, RealityServer can be used by automobile product engineering teams to share and visualize complex 3D models of cars under different lighting and environmental conditions, by architects and their clients in order to review sophisticated architectural models, rendered in different settings, including day or night, and by online shoppers to interactively design home interiors, rearrange furniture, and view how fabrics will drape, all with perfectly accurate lighting. "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." Nvidia is planning to make the RealityServer platform available as of November 30th. For more info about this solution check out Nvidia's website.

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