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Nvidia introduces Cloud 3D, a service that can vastly improve web-based 3-D animations

Source: VentureBeat

Oct 20, 2009

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Graphics chip maker Nvidia today introduced Cloud 3D, a service that will make it much easier to for developers to access powerful 3-D graphics technology via cloud computing.

The service lets developers access cloud-based graphics computing power — where the 3-D hardware is housed in a big data center instead of on the user’s computer — to render realistic 3-D animations that can be streamed over the web to users by the millions in near real-time.

At first, the service will focus on rendering of images that don’t have to be viewed in real time. But over time, the service could deliver streamed 3-D images instantaneously. Nvidia described this service a couple of weeks ago, but revealed more details today.

The service is based on Nvidia’s graphics-focused server hardware, the Tesla RS, and iRay, a rendering technology produced by Nvidia’s Mental Images subsidiary. The platform will give thousands or millions of users access to 3-D images that are rendered by iRay and housed on Nvidia Tesla RS servers.

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