Nvidia GDC 2012

Just stulmle upon some news in GPU world. Nvidia did presentation on 15 may at GDC 2012. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um6rMjwSNdU&feature=relmfu

Quite epic stuff if u ask me, new features such like smx, hyper Q and dynamic parallelism. Entire presentation is quite interesting full of news. The one that make my jump is CUDA 5 - which is enabling GPUS to acces "A" gpu acces memory form "B" gpu meaning 4x 4gb gpu will give up to 16 gb of ram to use. Which is pretty much avarege now days memory that a scene would use. Meaning GPU could be used to render images- not to mention 4x GPU will produce insance speeds for rendering...

Recently I started to experiment with GPU on iRay and Vray for more production based work. Since my workflow has changes by my proffesional work I now have a reason to use iRay which would speed up my render quite a lot in simple tasks that can be done on GPU.

I have already asked chaps at Chaos Group Vray makes to see if they know about the juicy news and they are going to look in to it, making me wanna dream that the answer will be "Yes we can share memory now"

Next months will be very interesting in GPU world...