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Title: AMD claims 'fastest graphics supercomputer ever' Post by: Alex on January 09, 2009, 07:36:33 PM AMD claims 'fastest graphics supercomputer ever'
IT vendors seem to believe that if you say the word "cloud" enough, an marginal business idea will yield up revenues and profits. Much the same thing happened with grid computing - remember that? - before it morphed with utility computing into the even more nebulous cloud moniker. So it is with the AMD Fusion Render Cloud, which would have simply been another example of a render farm used to create 3D images for computer simulations or movies if not for the cloud bit. It includes some clever software made by OTOY that allows 3D, high-definition graphics to be rendered on a set of remote servers and then displayed down the wire to a relatively modest PC or laptop. Read full story... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/neowin-main/~3/W9IwH1E6STE/amd-claims-fastest-graphics-supercomputer-ever |