NVIDIA® MULTI-GPU TECHNOLOGY
Visualise and Simulate Faster
What are the benefits of a professional multi-GPU system?
NVIDIA® Maximus® technology transformed the design process by combining the industry-leading graphics capability of NVIDIA Quadro® graphics processing units (GPUs) and the high performance computing power of NVIDIA Tesla® GPUs. NVIDIA Multi-GPU Technology builds on this capability by leveraging any combination of Quadro and Tesla GPUs to intelligently scale the performance of your application and dramatically speed up your production workflow. This delivers significant business impact across industries such as Design and Manufacturing, Media and Entertainment, and Energy Exploration.
> Substantial time savings—A multi-GPU system helps address the pressures of delivering a high-quality product to market more quickly by providing ultra-fast processing of your computations, renderings, and other computational and visually intensive projects.
> Multiple iterations—The ability to revise your product multiple times in a resource and time-constrained environment will lead to a better end result. Completing each iteration of your automobile, animated movie, or seismic data processing faster, leads to additional refinements.
A multi-GPU system also offers tremendous flexibility in its implementation, whether you're using a traditional desktop workstation or an NVIDIA GRID™-powered virtualized server. Multiple GPUs help optimize your workflow across a range of professional applications with performance increases of up to:
17x in Adobe® After Effects® CC on ray-traced scenes with 3D layers*
17x in 3ds Max 2015 with NVIDIA Iray® on Iray-bench 3.1*
3.5x in Ansys 15.0 running Turbine model*
A multi-GPU system provides more than just performance gains. It also gives you the freedom to run your applications with full features and effects enabled. This includes real-time ray tracing and global illumination for full realism of your models and scenes.
3XS GW-Multi X1
The 3XS GW-Multi X1 features NVIDIA Maximus technology that combines the processing capabilities of a Quadro family GPU and a Tesla K20 processing card, removing all productivity bottlenecks and providing the ultimate performance from a single CPU workstation. Using the latest generation Core i7 CPUs, this machine will run up to 12 threads.
3XS GW-Multi X2
The 3XS GW-Multi X2 features NVIDIA Maximus technology delivering both high-performance graphics and parallel processing. Combining the processing capabilities of a Quadro family GPU and a Tesla K20 card for the best possible performance from a single CPU workstation, this machine is Xeon based and will run up to 16 threads.
3XS GW-Multi X3
The 3XS GW-Multi X3 is the ultimate all-in-one modelling, rendering and simulation dual Xeon workstation as it includes the best of both worlds, the combined interactive capability of an NVIDIA Quadro graphics card and the extreme computing power of an NVIDIA Tesla processing card working together using NVIDIA Maximus technology.
Reality-Base Design
Multi-GPU systems for 3D design
In ultracompetitive markets, it's critical to shorten design cycles to get products to market faster. Digital prototyping allows designers to iterate and visualize extremely quickly and accurately. Plus, it frees the organization to involve clients much earlier in the design process while giving them higher confidence in what they're commissioning.
Multi-GPU systems unleash the interactive potential of applications like SolidWorks, Siemens NX, PTC, CATIA, and 3ds Max to let designers and artists use an intuitive approach that matches the real-world behavior of light and materials. The graphics and computing power of NVIDIA professional GPUs minimize rendering times and maximize interactivity to speed the creative process, so you can get your products to market faster.
Photorealistic Rendering and Design
Perform rapid photorealistic rendering of your designs in applications such as 3ds Max or Bunkspeed in a fraction of the time of a single GPU.
Multi-GPU Technology for Engineering Analysis
Simulation engineers want to improve product quality while reducing development time and cost. This often involves simulation methods such as computer-aided engineering (CAE) tools for finite element structural mechanics, computational fluid dynamics, and electromagnetics. However, these systems often require investments in centralized server environments that are relatively complex and costly to deploy.
Multi-GPU systems meet simulation turnaround demands while removing all productivity bottlenecks. This benefits key CAE applications from ISVs such as ANSYS, Altair Engineering, Autodesk, FluiDyna, IMPETUS, MSC, Prometech, SIMULIA, Vratis, and others. Engineers can now experience much faster simulations from their systems and realize model fidelity that was previously impossible, so they can produce more design variations in less time.
| Application | Category | Benifits of Multiple GPUs |
|---|---|---|
| Ansys | CFD | Complex simulations and computations completed faster |
| Dassault Systems 3D experiance Platform - CATIA V6 live rendering | Styling | Design and real-time rendering |
| RTT DeltaGen | Design | Faster ray tracing through faster computations in NVIDIA® CUDA® |
| S3D | Direct Numerical Simulation | Faster ray tracing through faster computations in NVIDIA® CUDA® |
| Bunkspeed shot pro and drive | Design | Faster ray tracing through faster computations in NVIDIA® CUDA® |
Multi-GPU systems for 3D design
Digital video professionals are always looking for easier, faster ways to deliver great results. For example, working with more video streams and high-resolution camera formats, adding effects without slowing the system to a crawl, or working interactively with complex modeled characters or scenes that include real-world physics and effects.
Using the most powerful workstation can make a tremendous difference in delivering the fastest results with the least possible production costs. Industry-standard applications such Adobe Premiere Pro, Autodesk 3ds Max and Maya, Assimilate SCRATCH, and DaVinci Resolve enable multiple layers of digital effects. These include physical simulations such as cloth, hair, and water, as well as advanced image analysis and video encoding.
Multi-GPU systems address these challenges by combining the horsepower of two or more professional GPUs to deliver both high-performance graphics and parallel processing. This is a truly unique technology that helps transform video editing, effects, digital animation, rendering, and media-creation workflows and helps you realize your final project in a fraction of the time of a traditional single-GPU setup.
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NVIDIA engineers work closely with software vendors to ensure that multiple GPUs will function with all the speed, functionality, and reliability users demand.