14 DAY TRIAL // Those of you that have taken a keener interest in technology-related news these days must know of NVIDIA's NVISION event, which is currently taking place in San Jose, California, and will end tomorrow. It is here that the green company is expected to announce a number of technologies and discuss future projects, including the release of a new high-performance graphics card designed to compete with ATI's dual-chip monster, the Radeon HD 4870 X2. However, at the end of the first day of the event, there were no announcements of new products, but rather successful implementations of the company's current technologies and solutions.
The Santa Clara-based chip maker announced yesterday that its CUDA technology delivered a 446% speed increase to Pegasys' Video Processing Solution. Pegasys Inc, maker of TMPGEnc 4.0 Xpress multi-format video encoding software, held a technology demonstration, taking advantage of an NVIDIA GeForce GPU to use video processing with the massively parallel architecture of NVIDIA's graphics processor.
"Leveraging NVIDIA CUDA technology to accelerate our application on the GPU has dramatically improved the filtering speed of the TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress software," said Tak Ebine, CEO, Pegasys Inc. "CUDA technology has helped us deliver this result in a relatively short development time because it is intuitive to C programmers."
The company's software application is designed to convert and compress all types of video files, including MPEG, AVI, VMW, DivX, FLV and also DVD video.
"Pegasys' video transcoder software has earned top ratings in Japan and overseas for its quality and ease of use," says Patrick Beaulieu, product marketing manager, Photo/Video Technologies, NVIDIA. "The inclusion of CUDA technology into this video processing software illustrates its broad applicability and particular value in consumer, life-style applications. We're looking forward to further collaboration and delivering the final version of the software to market."
NVIDIA's CUDA technology was released back in 2007, providing software developers a C-language-based programming environment that could enable the development of applications running on the green company's GPUs.