NVIDIA Targeting Real-Time Cloud Rendering

MojoKid writes "To date, the majority of cloud computing applications have emphasized storage, group collaboration, or the ability to share information and applications with large groups of people. So far, there's been no push to make GPU power available in a cloud computing environment — but that's something NVIDIA hopes to change. The company announced version 3.0 of its RealityServer today. The new revision sports hardware-level 3D acceleration, a new rendering engine (iray), and the ability to create 'images of photorealistic scenes at rates approaching an interactive gaming experience.' NVIDIA claims that the combination of RealityServer and its Tesla hardware can deliver those photorealistic scenes on your workstation or your cell phone, with no difference in speed or quality. Instead of relying on a client PC to handle the task of 3D rendering, NVIDIA wants to move the capability into the cloud, where the task of rendering an image or scene is handed off to a specialized Tesla server. Then that server performs the necessary calculations and fires back the finished product to the client."

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[dorpus]

For all the talk of "cloud computing", are there publicly available data sets from Google (or other companies)? I'm a graduate student interested in data mining of health outcomes data. My biggest challenge remains the fact that HIPAA and other patient privacy concerns make it very difficult to obtain health outcomes data; it's still a 1980s world where data are granted through official channels after extensive paperwork, or as a favor from people who trust me.