April 22, 2003
Angstrom Microsystems™, a leading
provider of high-performance servers, has partnered with mental images® to
enable the development of an AMD OpteronTM processor-based version of its award
winning mental ray® rendering software. Using the Angstrom Titan64
Enterprise™ server, mental images was able to achieve large performance
gains with mental ray. Mental ray was used to render complex visual effects in
numerous movies, including "Spider Man", "Harry Potter and the Chamber of
Secrets" and "Star Wars Episode II - Attack of the Clones".
"The
Titan64 Enterprise server was able to deliver impressive performance gains in
rendering images from extremely complex scene data , " said Rolf Herken,
President and Director R&D of mental images. "Angstrom understood our needs
and provided us with the tools necessary to support our AMD64 software
optimization."
Based on AMD64 architecture, Titan64™ is designed
to provide cutting-edge 32- and 64-bit performance while maintaining
compatibility and leading-edge performance with existing 32-bit x86
applications.
"Combined with Angstrom's Titan64 Enterprise Server,
AMD64 technology can enable highly sophisticated visual rendering," said Ben
Williams, director, AMD's Server/Workstation Business Segment. "The AMD Opteron
processor offers high-performance 64-bit computing with backward compatibility
to can handle the most extreme rendering tasks in a more cost effective way."
Angstrom provides high-performance solutions to the rendering and
content creation community in Hollywood. Movies rendered on Angstrom servers
include "X-Men 2," "Daredevil," "Scooby Doo" and "Bulletproof
Monk."
"Mental ray, a premier rendering software application, takes full
advantage of Angstrom's Titan64 64-bit engine," said Lalit Jain, CEO of
Angstrom Microsystems. "Mental images' technology and expertise in the areas of
rendering and 3D modeling technologies have lead to a new era in visual
effects."
Angstrom Microsystems specializes in AMD processor-based,
high-performance computing solutions in markets including rendering,
bio-informatics, on-line trading, scientific computing and oil & gas
exploration. Angstrom clients include Pixar, Rhythm and Hues, Conoco, Instinet
and Northrop Grumman.
Angstrom is announcing the Titan64 SuperBlade:
260 AMD Opteron processors in a rack, providing an extremely dense solution.
Designed for large-scale clustering solutions, the Titan64 SuperBlade enables
the next generation of supercomputing.
Contact:
Angstrom
Microsystems
Rachel Sun, (617) 695-0137 x 28
rsun@angstrom.com
Mental
images (http://www.mentalimages.com) Mental images, founded in 1986,
is the recognized international leader in providing rendering software to the
entertainment, computer-aided design, scientific visualization, architecture,
and other industries that require sophisticated images. The main product of the
company is the high performance photo-realistic rendering software, mental ray
which is capable of running on a wide variety of platforms ranging from
workstations and networks of workstations to parallel supercomputers, producing
images of unsurpassed realism. mental images GmbH & Co. KG is a privately
held company based in Berlin, Germany, with a subsidiary in San Francisco,
California.
Mental ray and mental images are registered trademarks of
mental images GmbH & Co. KG in the United States and other countries.
AMD, AMD Opteron and combinations
thereof, are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Other product and
company names are for informational purposes only and may be trademarks of
their respective companies.
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