A few days ago I covered the announcement that the ATI FirePro S400 Synchronization Modules and ATI FirePro V8750 graphics accelerators were certified for Sogitec 3D simulation products. The S400 allows for multiple FirePro V8750 GPUs on multiple PCs to be used in conjunction to synchronize high density synchronized 3D rendering across many systems for large displays.
Given the incredible amount of press coverage over this announcment (avionic simulations are obviously a pretty big deal!), I thought is would be interesting to show some digital photos of the S400 and Eyefinity technology being shown at I/TSEC.
AMD is making a big splash at Autodesk University. If you are attending, stop by their booth, #441 - they are giving away multiple copies of 3ds Max, Mudbox, a complete Lenovo system and multiple FirePro graphic cards.
Below is a video capture from the show floor of Autodesk Showcase 2010 running across two displays on a FirePro V7750. The FirePro V5700, V7750, V8700, V8750 cards have all been certified (read that to mean ‘reliability’) for Autodesk Showcase 2010 as well as AutoCAD 2010, 3ds Max, AliasStudio, Inventor, ImageModeler, Maya, MotionBuilder, Mudbox, SoftImage, and Toxik.
Also a quick shot from Autodesk U show floor setup.
Autodesk U’s main keynote was rich in fog and lights, at the Mandalay Bay event center seating 12,000!
At I/ITSEC 2009 Sogitec (subsidiary of Dassault Aviation) announced that they have certified the FirePro S400 and V8750 for their realistic flight simulation applications using the Apogée 6 Image Generator Systems. The S400 allows for synchronization of 3D rendering across multiple V8750 GPUs across multiple PCs (Framelock) - for multi-display/projector panoramic and realistic displays.
Video demo below - turn down the volume to avoid the annoying technobeat.
Also at the show today Wednesday 12/2 at 4:15 p.m., AMD will present ”Dense, Synchronized Multi-Display Systems for Visual Simulation” in the Innovation Showcase.
If you are attending this years I/ITSEC 2009, the world’s largest modeling and simulation conference, be sure to check out the demos of ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology and in particular, the ATI FirePro S400 Synchronization Module setup rendering and synching video and 3D applications across 9 monitors. This year I/ITSEC 2009 is held in Orlando, FL from November 30 to December 3, 2009.
Promotional documentary from RhinoFX on how they developed the concept, the direction, 3D models and character animation for ATI’s Ruby digital superstar. Key technologies in the making included FirePro accelerators and Maya. The motion capture (mocap) fighting scenes are pretty great as is the explanation of the facial animation.
Rob Jamieson from AMD captured this underwater theme park video on his new Sanyo Camcorder, at the IBC conference in Amsterdam. It shows a very cool, real-time underwater 3D simulation running on a FirePro graphics accelerator (including stereoscopic 3D).
The technology from VR Space Theatres enables an audience to view a real-time 3D stereo projected film, and to participate in - and therefore influence - the events on screen. (imagine this video capture as a simulated deep sea rescue operation, where the mini-sub is controlled by the audience). The technology combines the two big themes for the future of the entertainment industry - 3D stereoscopic visualization and interaction.
The most recent Catalyst 8.9 Linux driver enables use of multiple FireGL and FirePro cards to act as a single X server that spans multiple displays, each using OpenGL acceleration. Our Siggraph 2008 gallery video showed an example of this with the open source FlightGear running across 4 displays (each at 1920 X 1200 pixels) driven by 2 FireGL v7600 accelerators under Linux.
I received an email in response to our gallery posting - upping the ante! The 10 minute video shows four FireGL v5600 cars driving eight OpenGL-accelerated monitors running the open-source FlightGear software. Impressive!
Tech Specs
- AMD Phenom 9550
- ASuS M3A32-MPV Deluxe (AMD 790FX)
- 2 GB RAM
- 4 x FireGL 5600
- 8 Monitors
- Ubuntu 8.04
- ATI Catalyst Linux Driver 8.9
- Flightgear CVS (20080720)
The 3D Digital Visualization Gallery from the June TeraGrid ‘08 conference in Las Vegas highlights a wide variety of scientific and engineering domains in computational science. The gallery of static images and QuickTime movies showcases the “Beauty of Science” with simulations ranging from seismic activity and volume rendering to superovae and toroidal magnetic fields. All of the imagery was created from science and engineering results related to some aspect of the TeraGrid. The TeraGrid, sponsored by the National Science Foundation Office of Cyberinfrastructure, provide high-performance network connections and resources to handle massive datasets in science and engineering.
BMW's new GINA concept car offers incredibly complex design by incorporating a lightweight, durable, flexible, cloth skin pulled taut around a frame of aluminum and carbon fiber wires. Electro-hydraulic controls can actually move and change shape of the car beneath the fabric skin to adjust for current conditions such as speed and weather. The most striking example are the headlights. When the headlights are not active, they are smoothly hidden under the fabric skin. When the driver turns on the lights, the fabric "blinks" opens and reveals the BMW head-lights. Even the interior is skinned with flexible, Neoprene, only revealing the dash components that are needed.
Check out the sculptural aesthetics of the convex-concave elements in this video. Would be interesting to see the original CAD.
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