Press Release

BOSTON — August 1, 2006
Ciara Technologies, in collaboration with Asus Computer international, Autodesk, Intel Corporation, Mellanox Technologies, NVIDIA Corporation, Pixar Animation Studios and Western Digital, led an industry demonstration of its “RenderBender” render farm, showcasing exceptional computing power and unmatched performance per-watt using industry standard building blocks including InfiniBand, multi-core, multi-threading and Fully Buffered DIMM (FB-DIMM) technologies.

"Today's cinematic rendering requirements are extremely demanding and every bit of performance is essential to enable our customers to deliver to deadline." commented Chris Ford, Business Director for RenderMan at Pixar Animation Studios. "Multi-threading allows Pixar's RenderMan® Pro Server 13.0 to process these highly complex scenes more efficiently by maximizing CPU and memory availability."

The RenderBender demonstration shows a typical workflow seen in a media lab – from Artist’s workstation to Render-farm to high-res visualization nodes. Ciara’s GRAPHIXX® artist-workstation, based on dual-core Intel® Xeon® processors, runs Maya 7.0.1 and RenderMan® Artist Tools 6.5 to help create...

Contact:
Patrick Scateni
VXR-3DT Co-creator
Ciara Technologies
T: (514) 798-8880 Ext. 6550
pscateni@ciara-tech.com

Contact:
Andre Fuochi
Vice President, Technology Practice
GCI Group
T: (416) 486-7227
afuochi@gcigroup.com