RandomControl: Arion
Friday, March 19th, 2010
What is Arion?
Arion is the hybrid-accelerated and physically-based light simulator developed by RandomControl. It inherits all our expertise in light simulation and makes it run on steroids, thanks to our very unique approach to massive CPU+GPU+LAN computation.
Arion is:
- an interactive WYSIWYG editing application.
- a super-high performance production renderer.
Arion’s unique approach
Arion uses all the GPUs -and- all the CPUs in your system simultaneously, not wasting a single flop available. Additionally, Arion can use all the GPUs and all the CPUs in all the other computers in your network forming a cluster for massive computation.
In that regard, Arion is a grid-computing solution to the problem of light physics simulation. Simultaneous GPU+CPU+LAN, combined with our exhaustively optimized code, is what we call hybrid acceleration.
To know more about Arion, head to: Random Control and if you wanna discuss about it head to our forum post.