Xeon PHI & Vray?

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Yea babe... love u Vlado ! This is great news... waiting for further news then !

[Morbid Angel]

interesting, how would this integrate into windows (not linux).?

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

I think it will work just fine with win maya build since there is vray for maya linux I guess... not sure gotta see what Vlado say...

Also Vlado regarding V-GPU the decision not to do it for CUDA 5 share memory is it no a bad one? I think there will be PCI4/5/6 gen which will be very fast or as fast as cpu to ram connection we have at the moment. To be left out out of the race might be a bad for Vray GPU... Other engine will probably pick it up. Iray is already doing light patch expressions to get passes out of GPU render and vray is quite quiet... I just hope you guys wont abandon the GPU version :s

thanks, bye.

[vlado]

Other engine will probably pick it up.

We'll see...

Iray is already doing light patch expressions to get passes out of GPU render and vray is quite quiet...

And V-Ray has instances and render elements... so?

I just hope you guys wont abandon the GPU version :s

And what if Xeon Phi turns out a better solution?

Best regards,
Vlado

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Vray rt CPU/GPU can do render elements? :O did not know that one o.o

As to Phi vs gpu... true not sure what will be on top. I guess maybe thanks to PHI nvidia might lover prices on their tesla cards and become more competitive... But then again if PHI could possibly run full Vray production render then nothing beats that

Fingers cross for easy to adapt vray to phi if the performance will be worth it.

[bigbossfr]

Add the full VRay production with this card will be very very great.
I know some studios (which use VRay) keep an eyes on VRay with Xeon Phi...

I hope you will have a card to test soon and give us some news.

[vlado]

Yes, working on the topic

Best regards,
Vlado

[nikand]

this is very exciting...big hopes for Xeon PHI

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Howdy

Any news on this MR Vlado?

Thanks, bye.

[bigbossfr]

Yep, any progress ?

[sandykoufax]

BTW, Anyone who has that card?

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Bump, any news?

[bigbossfr]

Same question here ?
I am curious to see speed gain with VRay and this card please.

[vlado]

We are working on porting the V-Ray code base bit by bit so we are getting closer to having some results; I'll post here as soon as we have something.

Best regards,
Vlado

[sandykoufax]

wow. wanna see the results.