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I'm not a programmer nor a developer but a (very) simple end-user of software products
and I would like to know if anybody here has heard about http://www.caustic.com
and their approach on ray-tracing? They claim to have developed a certain very
affordable piece of hardware/card in conjunction with some kind of genious algorithm.
There is however no such card that one could purchase... does anyone have any
further info on this.
best
klaus
Caustic has developed a new opensource api for raytracing with cpu+gpu and ppu ( card you mention ) with a setup that doesnt retrict scene size to what you can put on the gpu. In theory you can have a 100gb sized scene working, under same conditions as you see the realtime viewport in octane.
I have previously asked refractive to support this API but for now its not going to happen, they are still in the process of working on getting 1.0 out.
Caustic has the ORL as a middle ware which means its not a final product, however render engine developers can hook their engines up and harness the fliexibility that comes with it.
Several companies has already jumped on to the wagon.
Custic bought splutterfish who made Ghost, brazil and parts of the brazil crew/core is bound into the API.
Hi folks!
any news about the "alternative" external GPU thingy? Santa's coming...
sorry if it has been recently asked already (been "away" for a while...)
Been a long time since I've been on here. Work and other hobbies have just taken my focus away from the cg world. Having spent some time with the cubix boys at siggraph and seeing the response they received there, the product is a good one and relatively inexpensive when you compare it to it's main competition, the plex system. I don't know what happened between refractive and cubix, but I can agree that cubix responsiveness always seemed a little slow to me. You also have to imagine that this is a company who builds large servers as their main business. The expander units were a completely new field for them and so they couldn't devote their entire production to a new and untested market.
I've always loved my unit because I could easily take the box to and from work and it was a simple insertion of the molex connector to have two gpu's burning away. It also allowed me to not have to have the cards running all the time, saving power. People have different needs and desires and the expander boxes aren't for everyone. They aren't stupid, just have a place for certain people.
On that note I am looking to get rid of my unit if anyone is interested. I just don't have time to do heavy rendering right now and the two cards I had in the box are in other computers now. Pm me if you're interested.
System 1: EVGA gtx470 1280Mb and MSI gtx470 1280 in Cubix Xpander for Octane, AMD 945, 4Gb Ram
All systems are at stock speeds and settings.
that would be a dream come true! i sincerely hope refractive software would provide this 
