NVIDIA Maximus

CREATE WITHOUT THE WAIT

Engineers, designers, and content creation professionals are constantly being challenged to find new ways to explore and validate more ideas—faster. This often involves creating content with both visual design and physical simulation demands. For example, designing a car or creating a digital film character and understanding how air flows over the car or the character’s clothing moves in an action scene.

Unfortunately, the design and simulation processes have often been disjointed, occurring on different systems or at different times.

INTRODUCING NVIDIA MAXIMUS

NVIDIA Maximus-powered workstations combine the visualization and interactive design capability of NVIDIA Quadro® GPUs and the high-performance computing power of NVIDIA Tesla® GPUs into a single workstation. Tesla companion processors automatically perform the heavy lifting of photorealistic rendering or engineering simulation computation. This frees up CPU resources for the work they are best suited for – I/O, running the operating system and multi-tasking – and also allows the Quadro GPU to be dedicated to powering rich, full-performance, interactive design.

Designers and engineers can now perform simultaneous CAE, rendering or structural/fluid analysis on the same system being used for design work. And content creation professionals can perform faster video editing, effects and animation.

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WHAT THE EXPERTS ARE SAYING

“A Holy Grail for this discipline, in other words, would be real-time rendering and simulation–manipulating the shape and movement of objects while in their final forms. Maximus, NVIDIA says, can essentially do that–representing, Huang said, “the biggest change in the last 20 years” for such workstations.”

- Don Clark, WSJ

“Maximus eliminates the rocket science nature of using GPUs. It is a layer of code that manages the relationship between the professional graphics application and the hardware. Out of the gate today there are Maximus-enabled applications and workstations. The list reads like a Who’s Who in CAD, CAE, and digital content creation (DCC).”

- Randall Newton, GraphicSpeak

1 - Benchmark obtained comparing 2 and 8 CPU cores versus 8 CPU Cores + Tesla C2075 running ANSYS Mechanical 13.0 SP2, V13sp-5 Model- Turbine Geometry, 2.1M DOF, Static Nonlinear, Direct Sparse CPU: 2 x Westmere Xeon 5670 at 2.93 GHz.

2 - Test consists of a collection of hard surface objects rendered outdoors in 3ds Max with iray 1.2 comparing an NVIDIA Tesla C2075 and the indicated Quadro GPU with the CPU relative to an Intel 3ghz x5570 Xeon CPU with 8 cores rendering. ECC has been turned off for all GPUs. Values shown are percent increase in render speed relative to CPU.

3 - Tested on a workstation PC with Dual Intel Xeon W5580 CPUs, 16GB RAM, Windows 7 64-bit.