PEER 1 Hosting Partners with Bluegfx to Bring GPU Cloud to Media and Entertainment |
(Archive News Story - Products mentioned in this Archive News Story may or may not be available from the manufacturer.)
PEER 1
75 Broad Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY, 10004
USA
Press release date: December 2, 2010
3D and video businesses get super-powered graphics on pay-as-you-process basis
Southampton, 2 December 2010: PEER 1 Hosting, the global online IT hosting provider, today announces bluegfx, who offer leading edge technologies in the fast-paced industry of 3D and video, as the newest partner for its graphics processing unit (GPU) Cloud technology.
bluegfx's customers in the fast-paced games, design, architectural, film, broadcast and education industries will benefit from the hosted RealityServer® platform, which is a powerful combination of NVIDIA Tesla GPU Computing Server and 3D web services software. It delivers a 3D rendering and animation package that works remotely over the Internet, onto the GPU Cloud to demonstrate the concept of remote hybrid computing making the consumer experience on the Internet even more interactive.
Matt Allen, Managing Director at bluegfx comments: "We pride ourselves on delivering not only technologically innovative and future proof solutions, but we back this up with a single-minded focus on delivering a service level and support infrastructure that is second to none. The hosted GPU from PEER 1 Hosting offers a unique, cost-effective solution that will have significant benefit for our customers."
Hosting the GPUs and software within the cloud simplifies customer implementation and provides an inexpensive entry point for new users. It also minimises internal IT pressures so businesses can focus their resources on core business operations.
Amanda Dunn, Cloud GPU Manager EMEA, PEER 1 Hosting adds: "We have the only hosted NVIDIA GPU service, which brings simple, cost-effective graphical processing power to the media industry on a pay-as-you-use basis. bluegfx has excellent experience in rich media, and working together we can offer high performance computing in a variety of areas such as rendering, transcoding and modeling."
NVIDIA's Tesla S1070 and Tesla M2050 (Fermi architecture-based) GPU's, as well as RealityServer, are now being offered as managed hosting at PEER 1 Hosting's data centers globally.
About PEER 1 Hosting
PEER 1 Hosting is one of the world's leading IT hosting providers. The company is built on two obsessions: Ping & People. Ping, represents its commitment to best-in-breed technology, founded on a high performance 10Gb SuperNetwork(TM) connected by 17 state-of-the-art data centres, 21 points-of-presence and 10 colocation facilities throughout North America and Europe. People, represents its commitment to delivering outstanding customer service to its more than 10,000 customers worldwide, backed by a 100 percent uptime guarantee and 24x7x365 FirstCall Support(TM). PEER 1 Hosting's portfolio includes Managed Hosting, Dedicated Servers under the ServerBeach brand, Colocation and Cloud Services. Founded in 1999, the company is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with European operations headquartered in Southampton, UK. PEER 1 Hosting shares are traded on the TSX under the symbol PIX. For more information visit: www.peer1.com or www.peer1hosting.co.uk.
About bluegfx
bluegfx is a leading technology company, supplying 3D, video, storage, workstation, render management, digital signage and stereoscopic solutions to the digital media industry. We work with clients to deliver technically innovative, future proof services encompassing training, support and cloud services. For more information, go to www.bluegfx.com. Tel: + 44 (0)1483 467200
Media Contact:
For European media inquiries please contact
Champion Communications
+44 (0)207 268 3439
PEER1hosting@championcomms.com
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 
