NVIDIA(R) Professional 'Off-the-Shelf' Solutions Signal a New Era of Computing
for Technical Applications such as VizSim, Medical Imaging, Science, Film and
Video, Automotive, and Aerospace
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SIGGRAPH 2005 -- NVIDIA
Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), a worldwide leader in graphics and digital media
processors, today introduced a new range of scalable visual computing
platforms. These new platforms signal a fundamental shift in the market from
legacy solutions that are prohibitively expensive to install and maintain, to
standardized platforms that scale efficiently over time.
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These standardized platforms feature a wide range of NVIDIA industry
solutions that include:
-- NVIDIA Quadro(R) commercial off the shelf (COTS) graphics solutions
-- NVIDIA nForce(TM) Professional media and communications processors
(MCPs)
-- NVIDIA(R) ForceWare(TM) unified driver architecture (UDA)
-- NVIDIA(R) Gelato(TM) rendering software
-- NVIDIA(R) Scene Graph software
At SIGGRAPH 2005, NVIDIA will showcase examples of platforms that will
reshape industries:
-- Scientific Visualization -- An immersive visualization dome showing
interactive real time and rendered content, created and displayed at
the Hayden Planetarium in the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the
American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and found in many
of the world's leading planetariums -- all displayed using a single
AMD Opteron-based HP xw9300 workstation. Designed and engineered by
Elumenati using projection technology from Elumens and Christie, the
dome offers SIGGRAPH attendees an array of high-definition visual
experiences, ranging from the smallest molecules to the largest
galaxies in the universe.
-- Film and Broadcast -- A digital production pipeline enabling the
creation, finishing, and delivery of cutting edge content leveraging
the same digital assets throughout the entire high precision, FP16
OpenEXR formatted pipeline with NVIDIA Gelato and Sorbetto(TM)
rendering and relighting technology, and the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI
integrated graphics-to-video solution delivering high definition 10
bit uncompressed SDI content.
-- Automotive Styling and Design -- A six system visualization cluster
that uses the NVIDIA Quadro G-Sync option board to framelock six high
resolution projection displays and run an interactive automotive
styling application from Realtime Technology.
"Realtime Technology designs real-time visualization technologies,
services and solutions for automotive and aircraft clients, such as Porsche,
Airbus, BMW, and DaimlerChrysler," said Ludwig A. Fuchs, co-founder and CTO of
Realtime Technology. "NVIDIA platforms allow these customers to deploy
standardized prototyping and demonstration systems that can be widely deployed
across an organization. These systems are far more cost-effective and scalable
than the legacy proprietary systems they are quickly replacing."
These NVIDIA nForce Professional-based solutions employ the latest NVIDIA
Quadro graphics to deliver a level of compute power never before found in "off
the shelf" workstations. These platforms incorporate NVIDIA hardware and
software technology designed to meet the needs of customers in markets where
performance and image quality requirements are paramount.
"NVIDIA is addressing the needs of the most demanding users, all of whom
expect optimal customized, yet readily available solutions, engineered for
high-performance and reliability," stated Gautam Shah, president of Colfax
International. "As technology evolves, so must the solutions, and we are
seeing our customers move towards COTS-based systems to replace their legacy
systems, at a fraction of the cost."
These NVIDIA platforms are now available widely through leading OEMs and
NVIDIA channel partners PNY Technologies (US and EMEA), Leadtek (APAC), and
Elsa (Japan). For more information on this and the full lineup of NVIDIA
professional solutions, please visit http://www.nvidia.com/quadro .
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA Corporation is a worldwide leader in graphics and digital media
processors. The Company's products enhance the end-user experience on consumer
and professional computing devices. NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs),
media and communications processors (MCPs), and wireless media processors
(WMPs) have broad market reach and are incorporated into a variety of
platforms, including consumer and enterprise PCs, notebooks, workstations,
PDAs, mobile phones, and video game consoles. NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa
Clara, California and employs more than 2,100 people worldwide. For more
information, visit the Company's Web site at http://www.nvidia.com .
About the America Museum of Natural History
Since its founding in 1869, the American Museum of Natural History has
advanced its global mission to explore and interpret human cultures and the
natural world through a wide-reaching program of scientific research,
education, and exhibitions. The institution houses a permanent collection of
more than 32 million specimens and cultural artifacts. In addition, the
Museum's Web site, http://www.amnh.org, extends its collections and programs
to millions more beyond the Museum's walls.
About Elumenati
The Elumenati is a full service design and engineering firm specializing
in the development and deployment of immersive visualization environments.
Creating a broad array of simple yet effective displays, the Elumenati serves
diverse clientele from art festivals to space agencies. In addition to a full
range of Omnifocus projection systems, the Elumenati offers end-to-end
services including systems integration, real-time software design, immersive
content research, custom fabrication, and optical engineering. For more
information, visit http://www.elumenati.com .
About Elumens Corporation
Elumens is a leading provider of immersive display solutions to the
Simulation & Training Industry. Elumens' Vision Series products have also been
broadly adopted for visualization applications within the Architecture,
Engineering, Scientific Research, Education, Planetarium, and Entertainment
markets. The company's award winning hemispherical display systems incorporate
patented TruTheta technology to deliver wide field-of-view, distortion-free
imagery and a compelling visual experience. Please visit
http://www.elumens.com .
Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to
costs reductions resulting from use of NVIDIA scalable platforms, the
benefits, features, capabilities and performance of NVIDIA scalable platforms,
solutions featured on the scalable platforms, and availability of scalable
platforms are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and
uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than
expectations. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to,
delays in ramping new products into production, manufacturing and software
defects, unpredictable costs associated with use of the scalable platforms,
proper use of the scalable platforms, the development of more effective and
efficient scalable platforms, incompatibility of technologies, general
industry trends, acceptance and use of new technologies and products by our
current and future partners, the impact of competitive products and pricing
alternatives, changes in industry standards and interfaces, our dependence on
third-party manufacturers, developers and publishers and other risks detailed
from time to time in the NVIDIA reports filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission including its Form 10-Q for the quarter ended May 1, 2005. These
forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof. NVIDIA disclaims
any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
All company and/or product names may be trade names, trademarks and/or
registered trademarks of the respective owners with which they are associated.
Features, pricing, availability, and specifications are subject to change
without notice.
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