14 DAY TRIAL // Fusion-io has just announced that at this year's SIGGRAPH conference, the company has joined forces with Nvidia to showcase a system that is able to accelerate full resolution, real-time digital content creation using some of the industry’s most powerful applications.
The two companies have built together a system that provides the throughput necessary to play 12 Full HD (1080p) uncompressed video feeds simultaneously off a single workstation with interactive graphics processing unit (GPU)-based color correction.
This video wall demonstration will be running on an HP Z800 workstation equipped with the Nvidia Quadro Plex7000 and Fusion ioMemory modules.
The Quadro Plex7000 is a system specially designed for ultra-high-resolution, multi-display environments and is capable of pushing up to 36 megapixels across eight displays.
In order to achieve this feat, the Quadro Plex7000 is built around two Quadro GPUs sporting 512 CUDA cores each and up to 12GB of GDDR5 video buffer (6GB per GPU).
The HP Z800 workstation that was used for handling all this graphics power is powered by an Intel Xeon 5500-series processors, which can be paired together with a maximum of 192GB of system memory.
“Working with Fusion-io, we’ve created an impressive, large-scale visualization technology demonstration at SIGGRAPH for show attendees,” said Jeff Brown, general manager, Professional Solutions Group, Nvidia.
“By combining Fusion’s ioMemory technology with our powerful Quadro Plex 7000, we’re demonstrating how to enable real-time color correction and processing of a dozen simultaneous uncompressed HD video streams – without being bottlenecked by disk speeds,” concluded the company's rep.
The SIGGRAPH conference will remain open until August 11 and is taking place at the Vancouver Convention Centre in Canada.