Posts Tagged ‘Rendering’

If you haven’t heard of cloud computing by now, I’m wondering how you managed to find this site since it’s a buzzword that’s on every news site BEFORE this humble little geek news blog. If you have, you know how much the concept has been taking off in the IT industry and computing world in general.

Nvidia intends to take it a step further. Their latest move takes the rendering process for images, moves it off the client-side and puts it on a series of high-quality servers that process the raw numbers and streams back the image data to whatever device requested it, supposedly in near real-time. At the very least, they claimed it would be able to render:

“images of photorealistic scenes at rates approaching an interactive gaming experience”.