I can highly recommend this funny and informative #Houdini talk by @tokyomegaplex

https://youtu.be/bYzffKN7CXQ

We're actually using #Karma #XPU in production right now for some water (where we don't need subsurface scattering). It takes just a few minutes to render (on an RTX 3090Ti) compared to 2 hours (on a Threadripper CPU). As long as the scene fits onto your graphics card...

💡 Interesting news... Intel AVX-512 becomes AVX10

I remember a year or two ago, Pixar had worked with Intel to take advantage of AVX-512 in its XPU tech, but then Intel seemed to limit AVX-512 support to only a few of its CPUs. AVX10 seems like good news 👍

Intel Is Making Big Changes To The x86 ISA With APX And AVX10 Extensions
https://hothardware.com/news/intel-apx-and-avx10-extensions

#HotHardware #Intel #AVX512 #AVX10 #CPU #Vector #Tensor #Math #Pixar #XPU #CGI #ComputerGraphics #3D #Rendering #GameDev #DCC #AI #ML