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According to NVIDIA, it is a powerful combination of GPUs and software that allows interactive, photorealistic 3D applications to be used on any Internet-connected PC, notebook, netbook or smartphone.
NVIDIA RealityServer reportedly represents almost 40 years of hardware and software development experience at NVIDIA and Mental Images. It enables developers to design 3D web applications for enterprise and consumer use that open a new dimension in photorealistic representation. For example, engineers in the automotive sector can create complex 3D visualisations of cars under a wide variety of lighting and environmental conditions.
Architects can design realistic 3D construction drawings that reflect different lighting conditions by day or night. Home interiors can also be designed interactively: when pieces of furniture are moved, changes in the distribution of light become precisely visible.
The RealityServer platform was said to consist of an NVIDIA Tesla RS GPU-based server and RealityServer software from Mental Images. The integrated solution streams photorealistic scenes at nearly the speed of an interactive PC game—a process that had previously taken hours or days.
RealityServer software is based on Mental Images’ iray technology, the world’s first ray-tracing renderer to use the massively parallel CUDA architecture of NVIDIA GPUs to create photorealistic graphics by simulating rays of light.
Availability
The NVIDIA RealityServer platform will be available from November 30, 2009. Tesla RS configurations contain eight or more GPUs and are scalable to support a growing number of simultaneous users.
A developer version of RealityServer 3.0 software will be available as a free download from November 30, 2009, including the right to develop non-commercial applications.
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