Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Thinkbox Krakatoa Cracks 7 Billion Pixels

You think you are working with large files, wait until you see what Thinkbox, along with Fusion IO and Supermicro accomplished with the new version of Krakatoa MX 2.  7 Billion Pixels per frame.  Yes, I said 7 Billion with a B.  That is pretty amazing.

I actually had the pleasure of seeing this firsthand at the Thinkbox suite in Vancouver and I have to say, I was thoroughly impressed.  Of course, they weren't using your run-of-the-mill desktop machine to make this happen, they used a 4 CPUs x 10 Cores (40 cores, 80 threads) machine with 256 GB RAM was used to test the latest Beta of Krakatoa MX 2 and explore how core configurations and available memory affect the rendering performance.

If you want to read their findings and more about the test results, click here to read the full story on the Thinkbox Blog.

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