More than 40 vendors had Nvidia GPU technology in their booths. OpenCL is out there, but CUDA is doing well. Nvidia had no new product announcements at the recent National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention, but the company did highlight partnerships for its various technologies including GPU compute, its SDKs, and Maximus. Nvidia marketing executive … Read more
Multi-product workflows and extreme 3D detail drive this year’s updates. By Kathleen Maher The entertainment industry is fundamentally changing. It has been for a long time but it’s become more obvious with several huge industry shifts in the game, movie, and TV industries. The content is changing and the way content is made is changing. … Read more
The new E5 series workstations and render nodes are designed for demanding 3D broadcast and film applications. Lightbeam Systems introduces a new line of its workstations, render nodes, and GPU notes for film and broadcast applications. The company claims the new series delivers up to 10x performance gain over its previous-generation computing systems. The Lightbeam … Read more
The growing use of Collada as an open, non-proprietary file format for 3D asset exchange presents new challenges and opportunities. [Editor’s Note: The following is an open letter from the Khronos Group Board of Directors about the future of Collada. GraphicSpeak is publishing the letter as a service to the 3D digital content industry.] March … Read more
Other new features include new support for JT and 3D PDF, and new synchronous technology capabilities for working with assemblies. The product update will ship later this year. With more fanfare than in the past, Siemens PLM Software this week introduced the latest update to Solid Edge 3D design software. Solid Edge ST4 includes a … Read more
Pushing the next conference from September 2011 to May 2012 gives time for regional GPU events. Nvidia is moving its popular GPU Technology Conference (GTC) from September to May, with the next event scheduled for May 14-17, 2012. The company decided to move the event to give staff a breather from a heavy existing conference … Read more
Revenue might have been higher if not for the late-quarter introduction of 2012 suites. Autodesk makes sweeping changes in how it reports product sales. Autodesk (NASDAQ: ADSK) today reported that revenue was up 11% in the first quarter of fiscal 2012, compared to the same quarter a year earlier, and net income was up 170% … Read more
Two-way file exchange enabled for Photoshop, Maya and more. Pixologic’s ZBrush is generally considered the market leader for digital sculpting software for content creation. However, its position is hotly contested by Autodesk’s Mudbox. Autodesk positions Mudbox as a product that’s easier to use than ZBrush and compatible with other software tools such as 3ds Max … Read more
Most industry benchmarks can be slanted to prefer or avoid performance characteristics. Jon Peddie explains the Pmark, used by Jon Peddie Research to provide a common standard for mearsuring graphics board performance. Graphics add-in boards (AIBs) get measured differently depending upon their segmentation. A workstation board generally gets measured using SPECviewperf, or various SPECapc for … Read more
When the NewTek team is finished, Core will become part of LightWave. Kathleen Maher sorts it all out. The new LightWave is struggling to be born. In the meantime NewTek is shipping LightWave 10. The resource-starved 3D modeling side of NewTek, the LightWave division, has been bootstrapping a grounds-up re-write of LightWave, which it calls … Read more
