TroubleMaker Studios is up to it again, using the AMD FirePro V8800 and 6-core Opterons for post-production on the the upcoming film “Machete” on a compressed schedule. A team of ten artists accomplished 500 final shots in just six months.
Shots from three different digital camera models, one film camera, camera tracking work using PFTrack, 3D special effects work using Softimage, and compositing work using Nuke, all came together through AMD hardware.
Such added effects include extensive set damage, a huge number of bullet holes, and wide-ranging set extensions. AMD hardware also played a part in sophisticated particle simulations helped more accurately render realistic blood spatters that interact with each other, the actors and objects in the environment.
The ATI FirePro RG220 graphics card is an integrated graphics card that includes display compression and IP transmission. It compresses dual-display graphic data at the host and outputs it over a regular IP network to a remote thin client device.
If you listen past the marketing hype, this video is actually pretty informative, describing how the card works, where it fits in, and who it will benefit. It’s a real cloud computing solution to offer serious graphics power to “thin clients”. Think small, quiet, cool, and secure. Wonder if I could use this for serious graphics on my iPad?
AMD will give a first-look at it's latest high end graphics card (all we know is it "will expand on the FirePro V8800") at IBC (Hall 7, J30). In addition they will show the FirePro RG220 Remote Workstation Graphics card (think low-power and energy efficiency for cloud computing graphics).
FirePro technology will be shown in partner demos including with VizRT, StudioGPU, Ventuz, MainConcept, Dell, HP, Barco, The Foundry, and Planar. Highlights include:
HP and Dell - workstations will be available to view on the stand, including AMD support for 30-bit colour in Adobe Photoshop with the HP Dream Color monitor
VizRT showcasing its broadcast graphics solutions with a 12-screen video wall demo
StudioGPU showcasing its MachStudio Pro (version 2?) real-time 3D graphics solution
Cosworth has more than 40 years of experience supplying engines to Formula 1, and currently works alongside four independent teams in the 2010 FIA Formula One Championship. It is critical to Cosworth’s communications strategy that they have high-quality visualizations of the engines and high-performance electronics that it supplies. These enable Cosworth engineers, customers and fans to see the complex designs in a visually clear and accurate way.
Check out the video which clearly spells out the what and why of the ATI FirePro and Eyefinity choice.
Dell also features a Case Study since these were Dell Workstations!
I’m a fan of clever videos and this is no exception. It shows a law enforcement swat team giving a briefing about an unusual heat signature and power consumption coming from a house (this is often a sign of indoor marijuana cultivation). After the commandos break into the house and shout at the two occupants to get on the floor, they see a glowing green box. As they leave the room one commando then announces: “Fermi again, it is the third time this week.” Great humor making light of Nvidia Fermi’s intrinsic heat and power issues.
A student/friend at Siggraph 2010 sent me some video snippets from the ATI FirePro booth. According to his report and the video you can see here, traffic is intense.
Check out the 4 X 10 video wall at the top of the booth. I’ve got two videos below that show it off.
This is more than 92,000,00 pixels of real time 3D (VizRT doing the rendering), powered by 10 FirePro V8800 cards sync’d together with the FirePro S400 running on 4 Colfax workstations. The solution is easy to configure and costs half the price of an Nvidia solution and uses half the number of cards. Drool-worthy.
If you are attending SIGGRAPH this year, be sure to check out the OpenGL BOF, Wednesday, 28 July | 5:15 pm - 7:15 pm. This is your chance to learn what is new in OpenGL 4 and also to win an ATI FirePro V5800!
And if you are an analyst or can claim/forge press credentials, then be sure to check out the Jon Peddie Research’s Press Luncheon Wednesday July 28th, 2010 | 11:30am to see industry leaders discuss new “Fusion” technologies with CPU and GPU combined, cloud computing for CG, new workflows and developments in high performance graphics on the desktop. You will also have an opportunity to win a FirePro V7800 or the top of the line FirePro V8800.
Be sure to also stop by the AMD booth #310 at SIGGRAPH to check out the full FirePro line.
The AMD team is just back from several days at Siemens PLM Connection 2010. During the week of June 28, Dell and AMD joined forces with Saratech (the lead reseller of Siemens in North America).
Key to the exhibit was the demonstration of integrated Product Development cycle showing the complete PLM process including design to manufacturing through simulation and product data management (latest releases of NX, Teamcenter, FEMAP, and Solid Edge). The solution was showcasing Dell T5500, M6500 and R5400 remote workstation powered by ATI FirePro V7800 graphics and ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology.
HotHardware recently completed a review of the V7800 noting “On average, the V7800 consistently performed within 11% of the V8800 in both synthetic and real world benchmarks. That point alone is impressive to us, especially when you look at the cost of each card ($799 vs $1499). But it also finished ahead of the V8750 in 8 of the 11 benchmarks we ran, trumping last year’s flagship model and making it a legitimate high end workstation graphics card. Our SANDRA GPGPU testing put the V7800 ahead of the older V8750 by 65% in Compute Shader results and 40% for Stream processing performance. In many ways, the V7800 delivered and workstation professionals should take note of what ATI was able to do with a single slot cooling solution.”
ATI FirePro V7800, V5800 and 4800 professional graphics cards are immediately available with the Dell Precision R5400, T1500, T3500, T5500 and T7500 Workstations for design engineers and digital content creation professionals. These cards all support ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology so a single graphics card can drive up to three independent 30’ displays. They of course, also provide full support for DirectX11, OpenGL 4.0 and OpenCL. These cards are rigorously and exactingly certified for over 90 of the leading CAD and DCC applications.
At the 2010 DS PLM Conference, held on June 11, Shanghai, China, over 300 VIPs from China’s largest manufacturing companies came to view ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology on the new FirePro line and embrace the conference tag line “Bring Innovation to Life with 3D”.
William Xia, Sr. of AMD presented the clsoing speech covering ATI FirePro solutions.
AMD is very strongly positioned in the PLM space. Check out the recent PLM MarketPlace blog regarding the a realistic 3D interactive view of a city using 3DVIA with a single ATI FirePro card driving 6 displays using Eyefinity technology.
Below is a video of 3DVia bringing a city to life using Eyefinity technology running on a single ATI FirePro V8800 at the DS 2010 Partner Summit (SwYm Conference).
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