3D and video businesses get super-powered graphics on pay-as-you-process basis
Southampton, 2 December 2010: PEER 1 Hosting, the global online IT hosting provider, today announces bluegfx, who offer leading edge technologies in the fast-paced industry of 3D and video, as the newest partner for its graphics processing unit (GPU) Cloud technology.
bluegfx's customers in the fast-paced games, design, architectural, film, broadcast and education industries will benefit from the hosted RealityServer® platform, which is a powerful combination of NVIDIA Tesla GPU Computing Server and 3D web services software. It delivers a 3D rendering and animation package that works remotely over the Internet, onto the GPU Cloud to demonstrate the concept of remote hybrid computing making the consumer experience on the Internet even more interactive.
Matt Allen, Managing Director at bluegfx comments: “We pride ourselves on delivering not only technologically innovative and future proof solutions, but we back this up with a single-minded focus on delivering a service level and support infrastructure that is second to none. The hosted GPU from PEER 1 Hosting offers a unique, cost-effective solution that will have significant benefit for our customers.”
Hosting the GPUs and software within the cloud simplifies customer implementation and provides an inexpensive entry point for new users. It also minimises internal IT pressures so businesses can focus their resources on core business operations.
Amanda Dunn, Cloud GPU Manager EMEA, PEER 1 Hosting adds: “We have the only hosted NVIDIA GPU service, which brings simple, cost-effective graphical processing power to the media industry on a pay-as-you-use basis. bluegfx has excellent experience in rich media, and working together we can offer high performance computing in a variety of areas such as rendering, transcoding and modeling.”
NVIDIA’s Tesla S1070 and Tesla M2050 (Fermi architecture-based) GPU’s, as well as RealityServer, are now being offered as managed hosting at PEER 1 Hosting’s data centers globally.
