Pixar or Foundry WWDC preso?

[Steve Connor]

[Charlie Austin] “Just watched it. Mari is pretty uh… crazy. And the Pixar artist and the developer seemed genuinely excited about the hardware. Also, it didn’t crash. :-)”

I obviously have nothing to compare it to as i don’t know Mari, but the MacPro looked like it was handling those vast amounts of data with ease.

The Pixar artist said it was the fastest he had seen Mari running, and this is on a port from Linux they started 6 weeks ago!

Steve Connor

There’s nothing we can’t argue about on the FCPX COW Forum

[Walter Soyka]

[Steve Connor] “The Pixar artist said it was the fastest he had seen Mari running,”

The new Mac Pro offers great hardware for this. Fast powerful GPUs with loads of VRAM, and fast flash mass storage. Moving data on and off the cards and “disk” should be super fast, and manipulating the 3D models via OpenGL on workstation-class GPUs should be smooth.

You could configure a Linux or Windows workstation similarly, but the Mac Pro will be ideal for this out of the box.

Walter Soyka
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[Rick Lang]

Thanks, Joseph. That worked with my registered developer account. If I say anything more, I’ll have to shoot myself!

Rick Lang

iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB

[Jeremy Garchow]

Nice work, team. I got through with your help.

I’m not sure if that was a hardware demo, so much as a really cool demo for Mari.

The size of the new MacPro is absolutely shocking.

They are going to sell boatloads of JetPacPros.

Thanks again,

Jeremy

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
Here’s the direct link to the web page summary of the presentation:
https://www.pixarpost.com/2013/06/pixars-speech-at-apple-wwdc.html

From the video:
“You’re going to be wanting to process huge amounts of data on one device (GPU) while you’re displaying it fluidly at 60fps on a second.”

Put another way:
You’re going to be wanting to process A on one device while you’re doing B on a second.
Where A = Decoding/compositing/rendering etc etc
and B = Displaying/running fancy GUI animations – scopes etc/playing the timeline/encoding/exporting etc etc
And with the CPU there are three+ devices.
Seems like a whole lot of that goes on in editing or running Motion 😉

[Walter Soyka]

[Paul Dickin] “Put another way:
You’re going to be wanting to process A on one device while you’re doing B on a second.
Where A = Decoding/compositing/rendering etc etc
and B = Displaying/running fancy GUI animations – scopes etc/playing the timeline/encoding/exporting etc etc
And with the CPU there are three+ devices.
Seems like a whole lot of that goes on in editing or running Motion ;-)”

What MARI is doing with the hardware is technically quite different than what FCPX/M5 does — but the point about distributing tasks over multiple CPU cores and GPUs stands.

The entire industry has been moving to multiple CPU cores and even multiple GPUs for years, and Apple has been playing catch-up here for a while — but credit where it is due. In typical Apple style, they’re making a bit of a leap-frog jump and re-defining the platform by shipping multiple GPUs, standard. This is a big deal.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
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[Mathieu Ghekiere]

Hi Jeremy,

I found it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kuAsOyzawNY

[David Eaks]

Nice find, one of my favorite parts of that video starts about 43:20…. “We didn’t know what it looked like either” and so on. LOL

Its a pretty good watch all around though.