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AMD Radeon GPUs headed to Google Cloud

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Randall Newton

Google Compute Engine and Cloud Machine Learning services will have FirePro boards as compute accelerators. One more unknown success story ...

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A holiday cartoon trailer from Blender Institute

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Randall Newton

Winter in Patagonia turns into a battle of wits, to be continued January 27. The Blender Institute has released a ...

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AMD GPUOpen offers developers access to its libraries and “metal”

BY
Jon Peddie

AMD embraces open source with game libraries and register data. A second release, the Boltzmann Initiative, supports high-performance applications. By Jon ...

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Southpaw extends Tactic digital asset management suite

BY
Randall Newton

Five new products help media and entertainment content creators.   Every industry is coping with an explosion in digital assets ...

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Project Gooseberry puts Blender to the test

BY
Randall Newton

The crowd-funded open production will unite 12 global teams to create a feature-length animation using only open source tools, including ...

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Southpaw brings its workflow management to Unity game development platform

BY
Randall Newton

The larger the project, the more developers need workflow management. The Unity utility is a commercial add-on to the open ...

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Tactic deploys digital asset management to Amazon Web Services

BY
Randall Newton

One-click cloud deployment, with as much expansion room for assets as any customer will ever need.   The open source ...

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Blender releases Cycles ray-tracing render engine with more permissive open source license

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Randall Newton

Cycles joins a variety of CG code libraries released to open source in the past few months. The primary Blender ...

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Southpaw is making money by giving away digital asset management

BY
Randall Newton

The multi-purpose open source Tactic for M&E asset management is finding its market one free download at a time. A year has ...

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Aras brings first 3D PDF conversion to PLM platforms

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Randall Newton

By using 3D PDF Aras avoids the need to work with competing proprietary 3D data formats, making an open visualization ...