{"id":439,"date":"2009-10-21T09:46:52","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T15:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=439"},"modified":"2009-10-21T12:37:53","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T18:37:53","slug":"nvidia-jumps-on-the-cloud-rendering-bandwagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/nvidia-jumps-on-the-cloud-rendering-bandwagon\/","title":{"rendered":"NVIDIA Jumps on the Cloud Rendering Bandwagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In January, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amd.com\/\">AMD<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.otoy.com\/\">OToy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amd.com\/us-en\/Corporate\/VirtualPressRoom\/0,,51_104_543~129743,00.html\">announced<\/a> Fusion Render Cloud, a centralized rendering server system which would perform rendering tasks for film and even games, compressing the resulting video and sending it over the internet.\u00a0 In March, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlive.com\/\">OnLive<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlive.com\/news\/press_releases\/onlive_revolutionizes_video_games.html\">announced<\/a> a similar system, but for the entire game, not just rendering.\u00a0 Now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/\">NVIDIA<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/object\/io_1256065754359.html\">announced<\/a> another cloud rendering system, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/object\/realityserver.html\">RealityServer<\/a>, running on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/object\/realityserver_tesla.html\">racks of Tesla GPUs<\/a> (presumably<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;hs=tVg&amp;ei=sVTfSubjEYfSsgO8zIXaDw&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=spell&amp;resnum=0&amp;ct=result&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=0CA0QBSgA&amp;q=presumably&amp;spell=1\"><strong><em><\/em><\/strong><\/a> using Fermi in future iterations).\u00a0 This utilizes the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalimages.com\/products\/iray.html\">iray<\/a> ray tracing system developed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalimages.com\/index.php\">mental images<\/a>, who also make <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalimages.com\/products\/mental-ray.html\">mental ray<\/a> (mental images has been owned by NVIDIA since 2007).<\/p>\n<p>The compression is going to be key, since it has to be incredibly fast, extremely low bit rate and very high quality for this to work well.\u00a0 I&#8217;m a bit skeptical of cloud rendering at the moment but maybe all these companies (and investors) know something I don&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January, AMD and OToy announced Fusion Render Cloud, a centralized rendering server system which would perform rendering tasks for film and even games, compressing the resulting video and sending it over the internet.\u00a0 In March, OnLive announced a similar system, but for the entire game, not just rendering.\u00a0 Now NVIDIA has announced another cloud [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[258,260,41,259],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports","tag-cloud-rendering","tag-mental-images","tag-nvidia","tag-tesla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}