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>  About GPU processing, I heard some good time ago about GPUs being used
>  by softwares as 3dStudio or Maya in rendering process... anyone knows
>  about it?

I use Maya every day -- in fact, I'm currently building a 3D model of
my local downtown. "Maya Hardware" is an option I can select for a
rendering engine. It is absolutely wicked fast for rendering some
kinds of things, but not all things work with it. I've used it to
render sprites at a very high speed for video effects.... but it's not
capable of Global Illumination, or rendering every type of particle,
etc. And it really helps to have a Quadro/workstation graphics card. I
have a Quadro FX 1400 in a Dell Precision M70 laptop. It is a
wonderful combination, absolutely rock-solid when it comes to
rendering/modeling.

Here's some weird stuff done with Maya Hardware:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1wFV0OiunY but I generally use it for
realistic scenes and models with photograph-sourced skins.

Nothing would make me happier than a PS3 based Maya renderer -- it
would be tremendous to have that power harnessed somehow.

Best,
Daniel Reetz

>  Anyway, the biggest PS3 cluster won't even scratch my Storm botnet. I
>  can stitch a 100 gigapanos per second at 5% power... LOL
>
>  (man, this is *very very scary* -
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_botnet)
>  

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