Kepler in the clouds: Nvidia's 2012 GPU Technology Conference
Nvidia' 2012 GPU Technology Conference (GTC) conference brought the usual array of graphics processors, but the company is trying its hand at something new: putting the power of those processors in the cloud. Nvidia's Kepler-based VGX and GeForce Grid distribute graphics processing. Nvidia wasn't the only company showing off wares at the event, but we've got their news and everybody else's all right here.
Ubitus GameCloud: the white-label cloud gaming service seeking a US audience
When it comes to streaming games to smartphones, tablets and televisions, OnLive and Gaikai may have some company someday soon. Taiwan-based Ubitus is looking to provide a white-label cloud gaming service to cellular carriers and internet service providers in the US. Like Gaikai, the company's using Nvidia's new GeForce Grid GPU to rapidly capture and stream compressed H.264 video frames over the internet, and even its existing technology already has a presence in Japan: the company says its...
Nvidia flaunts Kepler's GPU power in video demos (update: 1080p)
Nvidia is flexing its graphics muscle at the 2012 GPU Technology Conference, and the trio of videos below show off Kepler's new visual tricks. The first video demonstrates Kepler's real-time raytracing — a realistic technique for simulating light as it encounters virtual objects — in concert with complex physics simulations. Watching the light realistically interact with real-time object destruction and fluid simulations is quite impressive.
Update: We've uploaded a new 1080p copy of the...
Nvidia announces Tesla K10 and K20 GPUs
Nvidia has announced two new Kepler-based processing units for professionals that need to leverage high performance computing in their research — the Telsa K10 and K20 graphics cards. The K10, based on the GK104 core currently used in Nvidia's high end desktop cards like the GTX 680 and 690, will be available immediately. The K20, based on a new GK110 core, will be available in Q4 of this year. Both cards are part of Nvidia's CUDA 5, a programming platform for parallelizing intensive data...
Nvidia announces GeForce Grid: cloud gaming direct from a GPU, with games by Gaikai
Nvidia just finishing telling us about how it's going to stick a Kepler GPU in the cloud: now, CEO Jen-Hsun Huang is telling us how it will use distributed graphics to stream low-latency video games from the internet to computers that don't have one themselves. Nvidia's partnered with cloud gaming provider Gaikai, and claims that the GeForce Grid GPU has reduced latency of streaming games to just ten milliseconds by capturing and encoding game frames rapidly, and in a single pass, and...
Nvidia VGX announced: the world's first GPU developed for cloud computing
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang is kicking off the 2012 GPU Technology Conference (GTC) conference right now, and he just announced that Nvidia has developed the world's first GPU for cloud computing, based on Nvidia's Kepler GPU. He's calling it the Nvidia VGX, and described it as "a technology that virtualizes the computing environment such that irrespective of your computing device, we can provide access to the corporate technologies and data that you need." Nvidia envisions deploying the VGX...
