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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

 
  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

 
  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

 
  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

 
  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

 
  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

 
  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

 
  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

 
  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

 
  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

 
  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

 
  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

 
  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

 
  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

 
  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

 
  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

 
  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

 
  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

 
  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

 
  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

 

If geeks love it, we're on it

 
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

 
  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

 
  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

 
  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

 
  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

 
  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

 
  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

 
  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

 
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

 
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

 
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

 
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

 
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. ”
October 26, 2009

- CEN

 
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

 
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

 
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

 
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

 
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

 
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

 

 
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

 
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

 
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

 
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

 
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

 
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

 
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

 
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

 
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

 
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

 
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

 

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

 
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

 
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

 
  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

 
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

 
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

 
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

 
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

 
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

– Mechanical Design

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

 
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

 
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

 
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

– Mechanical Design

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