RandomControl has released a tool called ‘Arion’, which uses CPUs, GPUs, and network resources for a new physically based light simulator.
Arion’s 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.
The software looks impressive, boasting a real-time final quality viewport, fully unbiased rendering, and 20x-100x speedup per machine.
Currently windows-only with Mac & Linux on the horizon, but sadly not for sale yet.
via Arion.
