yeah i found this the other day on Nvidia's website and i don't really know what it is. Nvidia_Machine
to be honest i dont know, i think it could be a grfx setup requiring an existing SLI system, but it looks like a pc but doesn´t have any system specs (except requirements) so i think its just a grfx solution that happens to come with a case (no PSU) and is rack mountable
The nvidia quattro is a graphics card which is designed for rendering so maybe its a bloody big extrenal graphics card which plugs into your PCIe slot, somehow. In fact the more I look at it the more it seems that way.
It's a $17,000+ external graphics processor. I'm not sure how many GPU's are in that thing, but the little I've heard about it is absolutely insane.
$17,000 ! I wonder how much the likes of disney pay to render their films? The few 30 second videos ive rendered took about 3 days to produce the frames so I bet they are happy to pay 10 times that, probably more.
wow, i bet you could play games that look 100% real on that thing even tho its designed for stuff like making films.
It probably wouldn't do too good at games, it's powered by the Quadro GPU's - they're designed for rendering. I think basically it's to allow a massive GPU upgrade on your existing rig (although it'd have to be of high-server level to justify that upgrade) I think they'd have to use PCI-e for those, I think you'd have a rather long PCI-e extender from the rig to that unit. I would think it'd be used for uber high-res graphics and film, just a guess really though.
I've changed my wording, I'd originally typed it differently, but must have re-written it. The reason I thought of PCI-e is because of the bandwidth involved. I would have thougt sending all that over a network would take time.
well thats true, but, maybe if it's for developing future technologies, the time delay may be accepted because future technologies will obviously be quicker
it's just a comp with some quadro gpu's in aint it, look at the front, its got what looks like USB ports. Oh yea there is specs too, 2 to 4 GPU's
I was just at the siggraph convention in Boston on august 2nd, and I was at nVidia stall, and I was looking at a bunch of these. What they are are boxes that render 3D scenes, and they do it very fast. It's already been said, but there's like 2-4 GPU's in each box, and they run f**kin fast! Very nice hardware, wish I could afford one myself
