AnarchX
2008-06-02, 12:49:58
NVIDIA Gelato now free; merges with Mental Ray (+NaturalMotion)
Monday 02nd June 2008, 09:20:00 AM, written by Arun
A couple of months ago, NVIDIA acquired both Ageia and mental images, companies specialized in physics and offline rendering respectively. Now two new aspects of how they plan to benefit from these moves have come to light...
NVIDIA's Gelato software, an offline GPU-accelerated final-frame renderer, is now completely free even in its 'Pro' version as the company stops developing it and focuses on adding GPU acceleration to mental images' mental ray as well as improving it further. There are two strategic aspects to consider: first, it's obviously a wonderful trojan horse to get GPUs into many places they weren't before; second, it's also an effective way of slightly reducing the importance of the CPU.
http://www.beyond3d.com/content/news/644
Monday 02nd June 2008, 09:20:00 AM, written by Arun
A couple of months ago, NVIDIA acquired both Ageia and mental images, companies specialized in physics and offline rendering respectively. Now two new aspects of how they plan to benefit from these moves have come to light...
NVIDIA's Gelato software, an offline GPU-accelerated final-frame renderer, is now completely free even in its 'Pro' version as the company stops developing it and focuses on adding GPU acceleration to mental images' mental ray as well as improving it further. There are two strategic aspects to consider: first, it's obviously a wonderful trojan horse to get GPUs into many places they weren't before; second, it's also an effective way of slightly reducing the importance of the CPU.
http://www.beyond3d.com/content/news/644