NVIDIA today came out with a new innovative technology that will propel 3D cloud computing using GPUs. The NVIDIA RealityServer platform for cloud computing is a a powerful combination of GPUs and software that streams interactive, photorealistic 3D applications to any web connected PC, laptop, netbook and smart phone.

It is comprised of an NVIDIA Tesla RS GPU-based server running RealityServer software from mental images. While photorealistic imagery has traditionally taken hours or days to create, this first-of-its-kind, integrated solution streams images of photorealistic scenes at rates approaching an interactive gaming experience.

RealityServer software utilizes mental images iray technology, the world’s first physically correct ray-tracing renderer that employs the massively parallel CUDA architecture of NVIDIA GPUs to create stunningly accurate photorealistic images by simulating the physics of light in its interaction with matter. Because ray tracing is one of the most demanding computational problems, iray technology is designed to take advantage of the parallel computing power of NVIDIA Tesla.

Tesla RS configurations start at eight GPUs, and scale to support increasing numbers of simultaneous users.

The NVIDIA RealityServer platform will be available on November 30, 2009.