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NVIDIA-Generated Special Effects Enabled the Oscar
“The Academy Awards have come and gone and, while the various winners show off their prizes at parties and public events, NVIDIA is proudly announcing that its graphics technology was used in all the films nominated for the Academy Award for Visual Effects. ” March 9, 2010
- SoftPedia
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Silicon Valley Rules Oscars as Hollywood Looks North
No matter which film gets the Oscar for best visual effects at the Academy Awards this weekend, it’s a guaranteed win for Autodesk Inc. and Nvidia Corp.The San Francisco Bay area companies provided the technology for all three of the category’s nominees: “Avatar,” “District 9” and “Star Trek.” March 5, 2010
- Buisness Week
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Thin-tegration
“With the strong trend of enterprise solutions for advanced visualization enabled by the pervasiveness of GPUs [graphics processing units], there is now ubiquitous access of 3-D visualization for patient-physician, physician-physician, and physician-surgeon/specialist communication.” February 17, 2010
- Advance Web
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Peter Jackson's Weta Workshop adopts GPGPU
“The creator of the special effects for LoTR, King Kong, Avatar, Halo the Movie and many more - announced that it is adopting GPGPU-accelerated software for their TV production as the most cost efficient solution.” February 12, 2010
- BSN
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When Ultrasound Meets 'Avatar'
“Technology similar to the kind that made "Avatar" a box office smash is coming to the obstetrician's office.” February 11, 2010
- DOTmed
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Will Nvidia's Fermi Architecture Bring Movie-Quality 3D to Your PC?
“According to Nvidia, a guiding force of Fermi's development was Hollywood-quality 3D, which has achieved a realistic look that PCs have not yet been able to match.” January 29, 2010
- ExtremeTech
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River Design saves time, improves precision with Adobe software
“I was very impressed with the Adobe-NVIDIA combination, which ran Photoshop about 10 percent faster than my existing systems. Though this may not sound like much, a 10% time saving can translate to increased productivity” January 27, 2010
- SMB
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NVidia and Weta Collaborate to create ‘PantaRay’
When Weta began working with the VFX of Avatar, they quickly realized that requirements, 800 fully CG characters in highly stylized digital settings, required such immense computational power that they had never attempted it before. Then turned to NVidia for some help, and together they created a pre-computation system for rendering called ‘PantaRay’. January 5, 2010
- Vizworld
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NVIDIA Collaborates With Weta to Accelerate Visual Effects for Avatar
With NVIDIA’s co-development efforts, Weta was able to generate scenes that previously would have been time and cost prohibitive. January 4, 2010
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NVIDIA Quadro Makes the Virtual Real
“From cars to aircraft, new products designed with these two technologies [RTT RealTrace and NVIDIA Quadro solutions] incorporate better ergonomics, higher safety standards and superior design aesthetics.” January 3, 2010
-DE
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nVidia co-processing reduces power use by an order of magnitude
“The cool thing was that the demo was at nVidia, so I could check out the 3-D simulations on state-of-the-art hardware while looking at successes on real nVidia boards.” December 23, 2009
- EDN
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Adobe's Mercury Playback Engine for CS5 is CUDA-only!
“The 64-bit native code has been announced and now we bring in NVIDIA CUDA technology to be the icing on the cake and a powerful new engine to squeeze out performance in Premiere Pro.” December 14, 2009
- BSN
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Download NVIDIA Quadro Notebook 195.62 WHQL Drivers
“Designed for professional users, the chip maker's Quadro series of GPUs offers support for a number of well known professional applications and now, with the latest drivers, these notebook Quadro GPUs can enable users to take advantage of the latest features in Windows 7, the previously announced Adobe Flash 10.1 beta and more.” December 9, 2009
- SoftPedia
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NVIDIA brings about Armageddon
“So compute intensive was the film that Scanline is said to have generated 1.2 petabytes of simulation data for its scenes alone, spread across 125 NVIDIA outfitted workstations running Autodesk Maya and 3ds Max software applications.” December 9, 2009
- Hexus
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Dell has announced the release of the 'world's most powerful mobile workstation
“NVIDIA's 3800M offers virtually the best graphical performance on a notebook, using just one card, and it is in position 6 in our mobile GPU benchmark list.” December 7, 2009
- NoteBook Check
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Dell Powers up Precision Mobile Workstation
“The Precision M6500 is also the first mobile workstation to offer the new NVIDIA Quadro FX3800M, a high-end GPU that features 128 NVIDIA CUDA parallel computing cores, 1GB of G-DDR2 graphics memory and other capabilities designed to handle professional engineering applications.” December 7, 2009
- Design News
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Vancouver Softimage event December 9th with my shiny new Dell M6500 mobile workstation
“The M6500 is also the first laptop to use the new Nvidia Quadro 3800M GPU and Intel's mobile Core i7 chip so the performance is just ridiculous..Nvidia ups the bar with the Quadro 3800M with extremely solid drivers, even on Windows 7.” December 7, 2009
- Area
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ACME Portable Introduces Comrade 700 Super Portable with Intel® Core™ i7 for CUDA Parallel Programming
“Featuring three C1060 Tesla cards and a Quadro FX3800 card, the Comrade 700 is the ultimate portable platform for intensive parallel computing on tons of data delivering nearly 4 teraflops per second. It is the best choice to work as a portable supercomputer in the office or in the field.” December 04, 2009
- Cloud Computing Journal
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Dell Precision M6500: Worlds Most Powerful Mobile Workstation
“The M6500’s specifications are extremely impressive, it features an Intel Core i7-920XM processor, with up to 16GB of RAM (either 1066MHz, 1333MHz or 1600MHz), perhaps most impressively it features NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M graphics.” December 03, 2009
- Product Reviews
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NVIDIA launches a couple more Quadros – Working hard for the money
“…the Quadro FX 3800M and Quadro FX 2800M are both new mobile workstations from the green graphics giant. Sporting up to 128 CUDA cores and 30-bit color accuracy for a purported display of over one billion colours [cue Dr. Evil], the cards also have a whole GB of dedicated graphics memory and are apparently capable for real-time ray tracing, interactive volume rendering, and "the fastest video encoding available in a mobile workstation.” December 02, 2009
- Hexus
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NVIDIA intros three new Quadros
“Leading off, the Quadro FX 380 LP is a very affordable ($169) entry-level solution designed for SFF systems. It features 512MB of GDDR3 memory, 16 CUDA cores, DisplayPort output, and an incredibly low power consumption of 28W max. Like the rest of NVIDIA’s Quadro series, the FX 380 LP also features 30-bit Deep Color support…On the mobile side, the FX 2800M and 3800M bring the power of Quadro to mobile workstations. The FX 2800M weighs in with 96 CUDA cores, 1GB of GDDR3 memory, and a maximum power consumption of 78W. The 3800M sports 128 CUDA cores, 1GB of GDDR3 memory and uses a maximum of 100W.” December 01, 2009
- Icrontic
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Dell Precision M6500 boasts Core i7 Extreme [U]
“It [M6500] claims an additional performance crown as the first notebook anywhere to use NVIDIA's Quadro FX 3800M, supplying an extra level of speed beyond the 3700M in 3D rendering.” December 01, 2009
- Electronista
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Dell launches i7 versions of the Precision M6500 Laptop series
“Precision M6500 refreshes their hardcore workstation with ass-beating guts: It's the first with Intel's Core i7-920XM Quad Core Extreme, Nvidia's new QuadroFX 3800M, and up to 16GB of RAM running at 1600MHz.” December 01, 2009
- Examiner
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Quantum3D Announces the Release of the Independence® IDX 6000 Image Generator
“Quantum3D®, Inc., a leading provider of Commercial off-the-Shelf (COTS), open-architecture, real-time, visual-computing solutions, today announced the release of the new Independence® IDX 6000 Image Generator…with the seamless integration of the latest NVIDIA® Quadro® FX 5800 GPU.” November 25, 2009
- PRLog
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Dell Precision M2400 Mobile Workstation notebook
“Dell's Precision M2400 Mobile Workstation is a 14.1in powerhouse that's aimed at users who want to run demanding design applications…features an NVIDIA Quadro FX 370M graphics adapter.” November 23, 2009
- PCWorld
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HP Z400 workstation
“On a pure price performance level, the system is hard to beat…features the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800 graphics card” November 20, 2009
- Siggraph
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Workstations Reinvented by Cray Inc. Cray CX1-iWS
“The Cray CX1-iWS puts the 'work' back in workstation by delivering a powerhouse of functionality to the workstation user or workgroup…features NVIDIA Quadro graphics.” November 17, 2009
- SoftPedia
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Dell resells customized Cray baby super
“The Cray CX1-iWS puts the 'work' back in workstation by delivering a powerhouse of functionality to the workstation user or workgroup… for graphics capabilities, the NVIDIA(R) Quadro(R) graphics card that can support two high-definition monitors for visualization.” November 17, 2009
- SoftPedia
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Graphics processing technology key to unlocking potential of major industries in Middle East
“Graphics processing units (GPUs) are now becoming instrumental in transforming key industries in the Middle East, as GPUs are poised to unlock groundbreaking capabilities in areas such as oil and gas exploration, health, finance, digital content creation, and even climate change research” November 8, 2009
- AMWinfo.com
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Nvidia Releases Ray-Tracing API For Tesla, Quadro GPUs
“The company released the NVIDIA OptiX ray tracing engine, a programmable ray tracing pipeline for software developers to achieve fast ray tracing results on NVIDIA GPUs using traditional C programming. While the potential of ultra-fast ray tracing is being quickly recognized by those serving.” November 4, 2009
- CDRinfo
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Quadro, Tesla users get free ray-tracing engine
“OptiX "drastically shortens the development time required to create ray tracing apps, and it should see a great performance increase on Nvidia's next-generation Fermi graphics architecture.” November 3, 2009
- The Tech Report
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Next-Generation GPU Technology Opens New Doors
“NVIDIA Quadro and Tesla GPU technology are accelerating the pace of oil & gas exploration like never before, streamlining workflow in a cost-effective manner, and making the impossible possible.” October 26, 2009
- E&P Daily News
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Top 10 Cool Things That Must Be Seen at HD EXPO – Createasphere ASSIMILATE'S ROCKET FUEL BUNDLE: RED ROCKET
Quadro FX3800 SDI Board, and SCRATCH CINE v5.0 Workflow
“The ROCKET FUEL bundle includes the needed tools for real-time ingest, conform, delivery and output of RED ONE(tm) 4K digital camera material. Created specifically for cost-sensitive indies, filmmakers, and post-production facilities. ASSIMILATE's ROCKET FUEL includes an Nvidia Quadro FX3800 SDI board, RED's RED Rocket card, and ASSIMILATE's SCRATCH(r) CINE 4K post workflow.
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- CEN
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GPUs: the next frontier in film
“Technology and movie-making have always gone hand in hand but the latest breakthroughs are changing the very nature of the process.Those in the industry say that thanks to the role of graphics processing units (GPUs), the director's vision can be more fully realised.” October 20, 2009
- BBC
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Nvidia Kicks Graphics Up a (Big) Notch
“NVIDIA Quadro DVP is a game changer for individuals and small production companies strapped for the cash to buy top graphics systems. It pushes the trend to harnessing GPUs for graphics, whether in production (virtual studios) or heavy-duty compositing and graphics.” October 20, 2009
- NYC Production & Post News
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GPU revolution poised to go public
“GPUs have helped designers create microwaves that make crispy crusts. Researchers are working on odor-detecting devices that might diagnose cancer, and scientists are inventing cars with GPS that can see well enough to autopilot themselves.” October 16, 2009
- Variety
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Technology Feast: Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference Serves Up Appetizing Possibilities
“1500 brilliant people--CEOs, CTOs, researchers, scientists, programmers, inventors, PhD candidates, entrepreneurs, and financiers--from universities, established companies, visual effects studios, animation studios, software vendors, venture capital companies, and approximately 60 start-ups attended sessions, shared ideas, announced products, and learned from each other at Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC), September 30 to October 2.” October 5, 2009
- Computer Graphics World
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NVIDIA Imagines Computing's Next Age
“The technology industry has been slipping into stagnation for much of this decade, with few companies making any effort to achieve feats thought to be impossible. Long gone, it seemed, were the dizzying days of discovering one amazing piece of hardware after another. The long drought may be over, though. The new golden age of GPU computing has begun. ” October 5, 2009
- TechNewsWorld
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Visualizing Health Research
“Our intention when we bought the Cyviz system, and the NVidia Quadro Plex D2 rendering system that goes with it, was to render the 17 gigabyte, color cryosection, Visible Human Project male data set in stereo, in real time.” October 01, 2009
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A world with no strings Puppet master makes most of motion capture
“By partnering with…videocard manufacturer Nvidia, the Henson team was able to develop its Digital Puppetry Studio, which builds on decades of R&D at the company, dating back to experiments with radio-controlled motors and transmitters in the late ’70s. Now, they could use the same interface pioneered for animatronic creatures to steer their new CG characters.” August 29, 2009
- Varierty
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NVIDIA Quadro Plex Pumps up Collaboration
“NVIDIA is attempting to redefine how companies leverage visualization technology to more effectively collaborate with 3-D technology via a new line of scalable solutions based on Quadro Plex, what it bills as a multi-GPU visual computing system.” August 19, 2009
- Design News
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Digital Production Buzz podcast
“Graphics Processor Units (GPU's) are revolutionizing high-end video and effects with their power and speed. Recently, NVIDIA announced the expansion of their line of GPU-accelerated plug-in solutions for Adobe CS4 users, optimized to run on a wide range of mid-range to ultra-high-end NVIDIA Quadro graphics solutions for PC and Mac.” August 13, 2009
- Digital Production Buzz
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SIGGRAPH2009: Talking to NVIDIA
“NVIDIA has actively engaged the software community to build tools around their CUDA systems, providing out-of-the-box value in areas like Physics simulations, ray-tracing, and high-end mathematics. Combine the drive to GPGPU with NVIDIA’s offerings to extremely high-end visualization, through the 4-GPU 16GB Quadro Plex systems, and they simply own the high-end marketplaces.” August 7, 2009
- VizWorld
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NVIDIA at SIGGRAPH 2009
“NVIDIA's Danny Shapiro talks about new video GPUs that are powering a host of applications for graphics and research.” August 6, 2009
- Post Magazine Video
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SIGGRAPH 2009 : NVIDIA flexes their Plex
“If the theme Time Is Money mocks your slow previs of GPU renders - check these monsters out at booth #2101. Starting at just under $11,000 this is muscle for the biggest 3D beasts in the shop.” August 5, 2009
- Ninja Crayon - DMN
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Desowitz at SIGGRAPH 2009: Day 2
“The buzz so far? Aside from stereoscopic 3-D, GPU for film, with ILM’s collaboration with NVIDIA for the amazing fire sim on Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince the talk of the show, thanks to the mainstream coverage in The Wall Street Journal and the tech paper and panel on the topic.” August 4, 2009
- Animation World Network
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NVIDIA unveils new visualization solutions
“NVIDIA has unveiled Quadro Plex solutions. The visual computing platforms are designed to power a wide range of ultra-high resolution and multi-channel collaboration environments - ranging from interpretation desktops to visualization walls to network operations centers.” August 4, 2009
- Offshore Magazine
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Film Effects Are Battleground Between Chip Rivals
“The simulation was created by Lucasfilm Ltd.'s Industrial Light & Magic unit, which developed software that exploited the collective power of graphics chips from Nvidia Corp. in dozens of computer workstations.” July 28, 2009
- Wall Street Journal
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Autodesk Uses NVIDIA GPU Computing to Bolster Moldflow Software Performance
“Autodesk, Inc. has increased the performance of the latest release of Autodesk Moldflow Insight 2010, part of its software suite for plastics injection molding, by leveraging GPU technology from NVIDIA Corporation.” July 1, 2009
- Desktop Engineering
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New NVIDIA GPU-accelerated Plug-ins Dramatically Boost Performance for Adobe Creative Suite4 Users
“To ease that burden and enable greater levels of creativity, NVIDIA today announced the availability of GPU-accelerated plug-in solutions for Adobe Creative Suite 4 users, optimized to run on a wide range of NVIDIA Quadro graphics solutions.”
- Filmmaking Central Podcast
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City lab jazzes up Hindi films – DNA
“Launched two-and-half years ago, NVIDIA’s Bollywood initiative is titled Digital Bollywood. It couples the NVIDIA technology with industry expertise from all over the world to help enable Indian film-makers be on a par with their global counterparts.” June 28, 2009
- DNA
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Advanced Visualization
“A technology that is making a huge impact is the graphics processing unit (GPU), as it’s designed to advance real-time and off-line graphics. The inherently parallel architecture of a GPU has enabled a new level of programmability and performance, resulting in the capability to process much larger amounts of data and deliver an unprecedented level of graphics realism at ever-increasing speeds.”
June 15, 2009
– RT Image
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A Bit of a Difference
“At a tipping point: More professionals are reaching for 10-bit display precision.
Finally, 10-bit imaging has come of age. A long time in the making, the technology’s newfound maturity is sparking interest that extends beyond its past niches and across a range of professional applications.” June 1, 2009
– Computer Graphics World
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The Guide to Building the System of Graphics Hardware for 2D and 3D Computer Aided Graphics Education - CAD/CAM
“Quadro FX 370 and Quadro FX380 deliver a substantially better performance than these conventional graphics cards with the same price on professional software applications. Additionally, they deliver a higher stability and much longer service circle and warranty.” May 2009
– CAD/CAM
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NAB 09 : NVIDIA GPU monster for the Mac
“The Quadro Plex monsters notwithstanding, this is one of the most exciting desktop GPU computing announcements for Mac users.” April 28, 2009
– Filmmaking Central
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Getting more from your GPU, NVIDIA style
“The overarching message coming from NVIDIA is that their GPUs provide incredible power that’s largely been untapped by digital content producers to date. After what I saw in the [NAB] booth today, I totally agree.” April 21, 2009
– Millimeter
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NVIDIA introduces new Quadro card for Mac Pro
“The world of high-end graphics workstations grew a bit this week, with NVIDIA announcing a new piece of hardware for the Mac Pro line of machines.” April 21, 2009
– TechSpot
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Build It: Ultimate Adobe CS4 Machine
“But to the heavy CS4 user, the Quadro CX is worth every penny—it acts as a finely tuned accelerator for Photoshop and Premiere.” April 7, 2009
– PC Magazine
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NVIDIA announces powerful professional graphics lineup
“NVIDIA has introduced it’s most powerful and advanced top-to-bottom line of Quadro professional GPU solutions in the Company’s history.” March 31, 2009
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NVIDIA unveils new Quadro FX lineup
“On what is arguably the biggest day for workstation-class hardware releases for some years NVIDIA has unveiled its new top-to-bottom line of Quadro FX professional GPU solutions, many of which will soon be available in new workstations from all the major manufacturers.” March 30, 2009
– Develop3D
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NVIDIA Delivers New Quadro GPUs, SLI Multi-OS
“The company has today introduced a mind-blowing new array of GPUs, obviously catering to the professional set but intriguing from a technology standpoint to the consumer.”
March 30, 2009
– Hot Hardware
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NVIDIA Quadro GPUs and SLI Multi-OS Software on the Way
“The new cards offer deeper, richer image quality by, in some cases, increasing the number of color variations from millions to billions. One area where these benefits are realized, said Fitzpatrick, is in ray tracing, a technique in which images are mathematically generated to a near photo-realistic quality.” March 25, 2009
– eWeek
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GPUs take the lead in workstation power
“Your workstation is going to get significantly faster or significantly smaller, maybe even both. Either way, parallel [GPU] processing is the way to go. Moore’s law will soon lose touch with technology and the next generation of processing power will be upon us.” March 11, 2009
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Dell M6500: A Precision Strike on Bling
“Just as trying to game on a notebook with integrated graphics doesn't work well—when it works at all—trying to run workstation applications without a workstation GPU produces generally unacceptable results. If you run professional graphics software packages for a living, getting an appropriate GPU in your system will pay back in time saved very quickly.” March 9, 2010
- AnandTech
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Elemental Accelerator Product Review
“The Elemental Accelerator plug-in for Premiere does do exactly what Elemental Technologies claims, significantly increased performance in video encoding and decoding, especially when used with one or more of the supported Nvidia Quadro FX graphics video cards, thus saving you time in performing video encoding and decoding tasks.” February 18, 2010
- CG Channel
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Dell Precision M6500 mobile workstation
“The M6500 is a monster system in all regards…featuring the latest ivn mobile workstation graphics, the 1GB NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M.” January 27, 2010
- CEN
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Lenovo boosts Adobe Creative Suite 4 workflow via Elemental Accelerator software
“Lenovo’s workstations are equipped with Nvidia Quadro FX graphics and packed with Elemental Accelerator, the Adobe Creative Suite 4 can drain more power from the graphics processing unit to perform high-speed, high-quality video encoding and other operations alike resulting in a noticeable time saving over common encoding solution.” January 21, 2010
- JDMag
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InfoWorld review: The Dell Precision M6500 is a true workstation in a notebook
“With the fastest mobile x86 processor and the fastest mobile graphics card on the market, there is no doubt that the M6500 deserves a top mark of 10 for performance on our report card -- there is no faster notebook available today.” December 22, 2009
- InfoWorld
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NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800 review
“The real point of interest is the value found in the Quadro FX 3800 in its price/performance/feature window. Priced at $899, the Quadro FX 3800 is half the price of the FirePro V8750. That is some serious professional bang for your buck, especially considering the technologies that come with this GPU, most notably hardware stereoscopy and SLI Multi OS.” December 11, 2009
- Icrontic
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NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 for Mac
“If you need a professional choice when it comes to workstation-level graphics on the Mac Pro, then look no further than the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800.” November 5, 2009
– Layers Magazine
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Quadro FX 1800- Editors Recommendation for Mid -Range Professional Graphics Card
“The Quadro FX1800 has performed very well indeed throughout and, in the correct hands an extremely powerful piece of equipment that will keep the mid range end-user going for some time to come.” October 20, 2009
– 3D Professor
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REVIEW: BOXX'S 8500 WORKSTATION
“We put this Boxx 8500 through some extreme workouts, and it performed fantastically… In terms of graphic rendering, the 8500 models use the Nvidia Quadro FX 3800 with 1GB of memory built in.” October 1, 2009
– Post
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BSN* The Ultimate Workstation: Of Virtual Cities and Walkthroughs...
“optimized drivers and the enormous 4GB frame buffer make up for "heaven and earth" sized difference in performance.” September 14, 2009
– BSN
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rt image’s MVP
“NVIDIA’s Quadro FX 5800 is transforming the way medical professionals solve complex visualization challenges.” September 9, 2009
– RT Image
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BSN* presents The Ultimate Workstation: Part I
“It's not just the raw GPU speed, but the card-level optimizations like gigantic memory for visualization of large datasets; properly certified and tested drivers and application environments for precise error-free OpenGL display of complex engineering objects in real-time 3D; and, of course, well tuned OpenGL capabilities beyond what you usually see on consumer-class GPUs.” September 9, 2009
– BSN
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Elemental Accelerator on NVIDIA Quadro GPUs
“The Elemental Accelerator is a plugin for Adobe Media Encoder CS4 that harnesses the computing power of high end NVIDIA Quadro GPUs to encode video files faster.” September 1, 2009
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NVIDIA Quadro FX vs. ATI FirePro: Professional Graphics Accelerators Roundup
“NVIDIA solutions came out of the tests as the winners. First of all, there are some unique products in Quadro 10th generation which AMD has nothing to compare with [Quadro FX 4800 and Quadro FX 5800]… In addition, only NVIDIA can offer to professional people solutions equipped with an unprecedented amount of video memory, useful for processing and modelling of 3D objects of excess complexity.”
– Xbitlabs
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FirePro-Quadro Showdown
“Informed power users know that professional graphics cards center on the same hardware architectures used to drive gaming boards. That fact alone is enough to create skepticism about the value of buying an ATI FirePro- or NVIDIA Quadro FX-branded product.”
– Computer Power User
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Making Perfection Even Better on the HP xw8600 Workstation
“On the SPECapc Viewperf graphics benchmark, the HP xw8600 equipped with the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 turned in the fastest results we’ve ever recorded on all eight datasets.”
– Desktop Engineering
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NVIDIA Quadro CX – POST
“The CX board allows me to work more fluidly and interactively with my comps than ever before possible, saving a bunch of time and streamlining my creative process.”
– POST
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NVIDIA Quadro CX
“Now while CS4's GPU acceleration will work with any modern video card that supports OpenGL 2.1 and shader model 3.0 and above, it does it better on the Quadro CX card, and it has something extra the other's don't.”
– CG Channel
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Quadro Digital Video Pipeline – 2009 NAB Best of Show Vidy Award
“As the longest-running NAB awards program, Videography’s NAB Vidy Awards recognize outstanding achievement in the advancement of the art and science of video technology.” Learn more >
– Videography
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NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 – Highly Recommended
“The Quadro FX 4800 graphics card provides excellent performance combined with features that make it a great choice for CAD, engineering, and digital-content creation professionals. With its extensive software certifications, support for 30-bit color displays, and enhanced connectivity options, the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 is a professional-level product for professional users.” Learn more >
– Cadalyst
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Quadro FX 4800 - Editor's Choice
“The Quadro FX 4800's performance benchmark results are convincing, besting those of the V8700 in 10 out of 14 tests. Likewise, power consumption and quieter operation also fall in the FX 4800's favor. For these reasons, we bestow the Nvidia Quadro FX 4800 with our Editor's Choice designation.” Learn more >
– Tom's Hardware
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Quadro FX 3800 - EDITORS CHOICE for High -End Professional Graphics Card
“Ultimately with the initial impressions demonstrated; it would appear that the NVIDIA Quadro FX3800 is a resourceful professional high-end card that competes in all sectors. Therefore giving the end users from all walks of life within the professional graphics industry many optional upgrades without having to break the bank.” Learn more >
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Hot Hardware Approved: NVIDIA QuadroFX 4800
“Definitely a positive step forward for the NVIDIA workstation graphics card lineup.” Learn more >
– Hot Hardware |
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Awards Quadro FX 5800 and Quadro FX 4800 with 4 stars
“HardwareZone Awards Quadro FX 5800 and Quadro FX 4800 with 4 stars.” Learn more >
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Awards Quadro CX with 4.5 stars
“HardwareZone Awards Quadro CX with 4.5 stars.”
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Cadalyst All-Star Awards 2008
“The NVIDIA FX 3700 is a high-performance, PCIe2-compliant graphics card with support for both DirectX 9 and DirectX 10, making it suitable for Windows XP and Vista CAD and engineering systems. In the tests we reported in our June issue, this card produced great performance numbers, and LaFon anticipated seeing even better performance as the card becomes available in speedy new workstations.” Learn more >
– Cadalyst
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Professional Card Roundup
“All this adds up to an edge for NVIDIA's Quadro line over the AMD FirePro, unless of course you have a focus on the applications used in the two benchmarks AMD excelled at (UGS Teamcenter and UGX NX).” Learn more >
– PC Perspective
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Top Ten AEC Technology Trends Review for 2008
“With advances in GPU architecture, added graphics memory and 30-bit color, the Quadro FX 4800 gives professionals the right toolset to dramatically push the boundaries of realism, performance and quality.” Learn more >
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New Affordable Mobile Workstations
The HP Elitebook 8540w delivers a superb balance of performance and portability. Featuring a 15.6″ widescreen display and nVidia Quadro FX 880M graphics. March 8, 2010
- SYMMETRY SOLUTIONS BLOG
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NVIDIA and Sportvision Bring Gold Medal Special Effects to NBC’s 2010 Winter Olympics Broadcast
Sportvision, Inc., leveraging the massively parallel computing power of the Quadro graphics processing unit (GPU), is the company bringing you incredible, new effects to many of these events at the Winter Olympics. February 24, 2010
- nTersect
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NVIDIA Quadro Driving Adobe’s New Mercury Playback Engine
Essentially, Adobe has redesigned their entire video rendering and playback engine to harness the NVIDIA CUDA parallel processing architecture of Quadro graphics processing units (GPUs). The result is a fluid, real-time editing experience for adding additional effects, multiple layers, or ultra high resolution content. February 10, 2010
- nTersect
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HP EliteBook 8440w Review(B)
As is, the 8440w is still a masterpiece among 14-inch business-class notebooks and is an obvious Editor's Choice. January 11, 2010
- Xanga
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Who needs CES when you can see Maxwell's equations rendered in 3-D?
“the really cool action is at nVIDIA’s Santa Clara headquarters, where Agilent and nVIDIA engineers are demonstrating the use of nVIDEA graphics processing units to accelerate simulations in the Agilent ADS (Advanced Design System) EDA platform and render the results in 3-D.” January 7, 2010
- Tm World
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Essential Upgrades to Boost Your System
The FX 4800 for Mac was designed with the Adobe CS4 Suite in mind. December 25, 2009
- ae tuts
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Nvidia: 2012 film visual effects created with the Quadro series cards
“Amazing visual effects for the film makes a statement, Nvidia Quadro 2012 series of visual effects, design, professional graphics cards are used, Uncharted Territory and Scan line VFX to be prepared by the two companies to effect a total of more than 200 Quadro-based servers are used to explain.” December 15, 2009
- TechFuels
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Drives Earth-Shattering Visual Effects in Blockbuster Hit “2012”
“Two Hollywood film production studios relied extensively on NVIDIA Quadro professional graphics solutions to create over 500 spectacular effects for “2012”, the newest film from director Roland Emmerich that depicts in jaw-dropping detail the cataclysm of epic proportions that awaits the earth in 2012.”
December 7, 2009
- Scanline VFX
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Three words you'll be hearing a lot of: Adobe Mercury Engine
“The icing on the cake is the new GPU acceleration. With the appropriate video card, the same timeline shown in the multi-threaded example drops down to about 25-30% CPU load!” November 24, 2009
- Adobe
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NVIDIA GPUs Power All 2010 Best Visual Effects Academy Award Nominees
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Mar. 1, 2010—Each of the films nominated for an Academy Award for Visual Effects in this year’s competition depended on NVIDIA® Quadro® professional graphics to power their stunning special effects.
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NVIDIA Quadro Makes Clean Sweep In Powering Newest Breed of Mobile Workstations
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Feb. 1, 2010 — Demonstrating its continued technology leadership and position as the premier graphics solution of choice for design professionals, NVIDIA Corp. announced today the availability of its entire new line of Quadro® professional graphics solutions for mobile workstations.
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Design Professionals Hit The Jackpot With New NVIDIA Quadro Graphics Solutions For Autodesk Applications
Autodesk University 2009 (Booth #319), LAS VEGAS — Dec. 1, 2009 — NVIDIA Corp. today launched new Quadro® professional graphics solutions for desktop and mobile workstations, designed to boost productivity and enhance creativity of 3D design professionals running Autodesk applications.
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NVIDIA, Siemens Healthcare Take Immersive 3D From The Movie Theater Into The Doctor’s Office
RSNA 2009, Chicago (McCormick Place - Lakeside Center-Hall D, #825) — Nov. 30, 2009 — NVIDIA Corp. and Siemens Healthcare demonstrated today a new, immersive 3D ultrasound viewing experience that enables expecting parents and their medical caregivers to view the fetus with incredible detail using 3D glasses.
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Ohio Supercomputing Center Offers Remote Interactive Visualization Using NVIDIA Quadro Plex 2200 S4 Supplied by PNY and JRTI
PARSIPPANY, N.J., Sept. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- PNY(R) Technologies and James River Technical, Inc, (JRTI) announced today that the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) has taken delivery of multiple NVIDIA(R) Quadro(R) Plex 2200 S4 systems to be integrated into its "lights out" operation room at the State of Ohio Computing Center. These dedicated multi-GPU visual computing solutions will allow Ohio's academic and industry researchers, for the first time, to visualize and interact with extremely large models remotely from their classrooms or labs.
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NVIDIA and VSG Accelerate Oil & Gas Exploration
SEG 2009, HOUSTON — Oct. 26, 2009— NVIDIA and Visualization Sciences Group (VSG), a leader in 3D development solutions for the oil & gas industry, announced today that the newest release of the Open Inventor 3D Graphics Toolkit will employ the NVIDIA® CompleX™ scene-scaling acceleration engine, enabling the visualization and manipulation of huge data sets required for energy exploration.
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Energy Giant Hess Explores Benefits of Virtualization, NVIDIA SLI Multi OS Technology on HP Workstations
SEG 2009, HOUSTON —Oct. 26, 2009— NVIDIA announced today that Hess Corp., a leading global independent energy company, is using HP Z800 workstations outfitted with NVIDIA® Quadro® graphics processing units (GPUs) and NVIDIA SLI® Multi-OS technology to investigate reducing IT costs while increasing productivity for geosciences professionals.
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NVIDIA RealityServer Propels 3D Cloud Computing Using GPUs
Web 2.0 Summit, SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.— Oct. 20, 2009 — 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, netbook and smart phone.
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Sony Pictures Imageworks Creates Tornado Out Of Spaghetti Sauce With The Help Of NVIDIA Technology
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Sept. 29, 2009—NVIDIA Corporation, the inventor of the graphics processing unit (GPU), announced today that Sony Pictures Imageworks (SPI) utilized NVIDIA® Quadro® processors to accelerate animation and visual effects production of their latest hit film “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs”.
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Portable CUDA Development Systems and High-Density Rackmount Servers from NextComputing at GPU Technology Conference
“Nashua, NH - September 23, 2009 - NextComputing, manufacturer of portable and small form-factor workstations and servers, will demonstrate its solutions for NVIDIA® CUDA™ developers at the GPU Technology Conference, September 30th through Oct 2nd, at The Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, CA. The CUDA parallel computing architecture enables NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) to help solve the world's most complex computational problems in a fraction of the time taken by CPUs.”
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NVIDIA Premieres Quadro Digital Video Pipeline to International Broadcast and Film Studios at IBC 2009
IBC 2009, Amsterdam—SEP. 10, 2009 — NVIDIA Corporation today announced the international premiere and release of the NVIDIA® Quadro® Digital Video Pipeline, the industry’s first integrated, GPU-based platform for real-time acquisition, processing and delivery of high resolution video.
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NVIDIA CUDA Drives Innovation in Broadcast and Film Production
IBC 2009, AMSTERDAM—SEP. 10, 2009—NVIDIA Corporation, the worldwide leader in visual computing, is making it possible for production houses to work faster and easier with the immense quantity of high-resolution data generated for HDTV, Blu-Ray and 4K digital cinema.
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NVIDIA and ELEMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES
“Elemental Technologies today announced the availability of Elemental™ Accelerator 2.1 which leverages NVIDIA Quadro GPUs for accelerating the creation of MPEG-2 output files and which offers an expanded suite of conforming H.264 video presets.” August 24, 2009
- Elemental Technologies
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NVIDIA Congratulates Jim Henson’s Creature Shop™ on Winning Primetime Emmy Engineering Award
SANTA CLARA, Calif. —Aug. 26, 2009—NVIDIA Corporation congratulates a premier technology partner, Jim Henson’s Creature Shop™, on winning an Engineering Emmy at the 61st Primetime Emmy Engineering Awards, held Saturday, Aug. 22 in Los Angeles.
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NVIDIA Unveils Breakthrough Solutions For Enterprise Collaboration And Visualization Centers
SIGGRAPH 2009, NEW ORLEANS—Aug. 4, 2009—NVIDIA today unveiled new breakthrough Quadro® Plex solutions targeted at scalable visualization professionals who interact with 3D models and analyze large volumes of data.
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NVIDIA Launches The World's First Interactive Ray Tracing Engine
SIGGRAPH 2009, NEW ORLEANS—Aug. 4, 2009—NVIDIA, the leader in GPU computing, today introduced the NVIDIA® OptiX™ ray tracing engine, part of a suite of application acceleration engines for software developers.
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NVIDIA Quadro Processors Propel 3D Design To New Heights For Autocad 2010 Users
SANTA CLARA, CA—July 14, 2009—NVIDIA Corporation today announced that the NVIDIA® Quadro® line of professional solutions is now optimized for Autodesk AutoCAD 2010.
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New NVIDIA GPU-Accelerated Plug-Ins Dramatically Boost Performance For Adobe Creative Suite 4 Users
SANTA CLARA, CA—June 29, 2009—Professional videographers face continuous pressure to deliver high quality work under tight deadlines.
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NVIDIA Brings Highly Acclaimed Quadro FX 4800 To MAC Market
NAB 2009 — LAS VEGAS — April 20, 2009 — NVIDIA today brings to Mac Pro users its award-winning NVIDIA® Quadro® FX 4800, the market’s most advanced professional graphics card.
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NVIDIA Unveils Industry's First Integrated GPU Platform For Broadcast Production
NAB 2009, LAS VEGAS—April 20, 2009—NVIDIA Corporation today introduced the NVIDIA® Quadro® Digital Video Pipeline, the industry’s first integrated GPU-based platform for broadcasters to acquire, process and deliver virtual effects to video. |
NVIDIA Introduces Industry’s Most Powerful Professional Graphics LineUp
SANTA CLARA, CA. — MARCH 30, 2009 — Whether designing the next aircraft or delivering seven-day weather forecasts, today’s professionals seek a reliable, robust visualization platform designed to address their unique challenges and needs. Highlighting a decade of innovation, driven by the needs of the most demanding professionals, NVIDIA today introduced its most powerful and advanced top-to-bottom line of Quadro® professional GPU solutions in the Company’s history.
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NVIDIA SLI Multi-OS Empowers World’s First Virtualized Graphics Workstation
SANTA CLARA, CA. — MARCH 30, 2009 — NVIDIA, the inventor of the GPU, today introduced NVIDIA® SLI® Multi-OS, a ground-breaking technology that allows users and visualization applications, for the first time, to take full advantage of multiple NVIDIA® Quadro® GPUs from a single graphics workstation in a virtualized environment. |
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