As of mid-August, the LipSinc Web site and operations appeared to be functioning, but company representatives could not be reached for comment.
Exluna Merges with NvidiaRendering software maker Exluna announced that it has merged with graphics manufacturer Nvidia. Exluna had recently introduced Entropy, a rendering program for professional digital artists, and the subject of a lawsuit by Pixar, from which several Exluna officers had come. Exluna also distributed BMRT (Blue Moon Rendering Tools). Neither Entropy nor BMRT are now being sold.
benchmarkWildcat III Tops 3dsmax-01 PerformersWildcat III graphics cards from 3Dlabs recently earned top performance numbers for the 3ds max subset of the SPECviewperf 7.0 benchmark. The 3dsmax-01 benchmark is based on Discreet's 3ds max modeling and animation software and consists of 14 tests, each of which represents a different mode of operation within 3ds max.
The mean scores show the combined, weighted results of the 14 tests, measured in the number of frames per second the machines were able to execute. The larger the numbers, the better the performance.
To see how the same graphics cards and workstations fared in other benchmark tests, visit www.spec.org/gpc.
3dsmax-01 Performance Results
Workstation |
Graphics Card |
Price |
Mean |
IBM M Pro 2.53GHz |
3Dlabs Wildcat III 6110 |
$4445 |
13.82 |
HP x2100 2.4GHz |
3Dlabs Wildcat III 6110 |
$4408 |
13.66 |
Dell 530 2.4GHz |
3Dlabs Wildcat III 6110 |
$4827 |
13.64 |
Fujitsu Siemens Celsius 670 |
Wildcat 6110 |
$6024 |
13.49 |
IBM M Pro 2.53GH |
Nvidia Quadro4 900XGL |
$3958 |
12.52 |
Dell 340 2.53GHz |
Nvidia Quadro4 900XGL |
$3066 |
12.41 |
HP x2100 2.4GHz |
Nvidia Quadro4 900XGL |
$3508 |
12.13 |
Fujitsu Siemens Celsius 670 |
Quadro4 900XGL |
$4676 |
11.83 |
Fujitsu Siemens Celsius 670 |
Quadro4 750XGL |
$4260 |
11.41 |
Dell 340 2.53GHz |
Quadro4 700XGL |
$2566 |
11.27 |
IBM Pro 2.4GHz |
ATI FireGL 8800 |
$2887 |
8.25 |
Dell M50 2.GHz |
Nvidia Quadro4 500 GoGL |
$3799 |
6.59 |
Companies listed are voluntary participants. Source: SPEC/GPC benchmark results July 2002. Copyright Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. |
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News is written and compiled by Jenny Donelan