Xpander for Octane Render

Okay, you've just purchased and downloaded the hottest new unbiased physical renderer on the market, Octane Render™ by Refractive Software®. Do you have the right hardware for running it?

Since Octane Render runs exclusively on NVIDIA® CUDA-enabled GPUs, more GPUs+ more CUDA cores + more VRAM = bigger render file capabilities and faster rendering performance. In fact, if you want to use other applications while waiting for a render job to finish, you need to use at least 2 or more GPUs in your computer.

What if your computer doesn't have enough PCIe slots, slot space for full-sized, double-wide GPU cards, or the power supply capacity to handle one high-performance GeForce GTX 470 or GTX 480, let alone multiple GTX cards? Do you immediately start to budget for another Core 2+ machine with lots of slots and watts?

What if you could simply add a couple of GeForce GTX cards connected externally to your current workstation in a GPU box with its own power supply? You could spend more money on GPU cards instead of CPUs, memory, OS and storage. You could spend more time rendering with Octane Render, and less time and hassles transferring all of your files and applications from your current PC to your new one.

Xpander for Octane Render

Cubix Visual & GPU Compute Solutions has partnered with Refractive Software to provide the most cost effective means available of scaling Octane Render's multi-GPU capabilities far beyond the limits of your current PC or Mac computer. Xpander for Octane Render provides more GPUs, more CUDA cores, and more VRAM for your money than any replacement computer you can buy.

What is Xpander for Octane Render?

Xpander for Octane Render is two or more additional PCIe x 16 slots externally-connected to your current PC or Mac computer, and a choice of 1or 2 high-performance NVIDIA CUDA-enabled graphics cards. With a 750W auto-ranging power supply and silent fans, Xpander provides a scalable, cost-effective means of immediately upgrading your multi GPU-enhanced Octane Render performance with any currently available NVIDIA GeForce, Quadro FX, or Tesla products. Xpander for Octane Render is hardware specifically tuned to maximize your rendering experience while minimizing upgrading costs.

Multi-GPU performance for laptops and MacBook Pro

Xpander for Octane Render is also the only commercially-available means of adding multiple, full-sized discrete GPU cards to your PC laptop or MacBook Pro computer. Whether you’re a hobbyist, professional artist, or a game developer, Xpander is an ideal means of immediately improving GPU-intensive application performance.

Modular, scalable GPU expansion for large studios and render farms

Whether you’re working alone with one computer, or working dozens of artists at a large animation studio, Xpander for Octane Render provides a low-cost, modular means of immediately upgrading GPU performance without spending 2-3 times as much for GPU Compute workstations or servers.

A 19” rackmount version will be available Q2 2010 providing medium-large studios and online render farms with an easy, scalable GPU expansion solution for between 1-5 render nodes. Instead of replacing dozens or hundreds of expensive, legacy software-based render farm hardware with new, expensive specialty workstations designed for multi-GPU applications, Cubix’s Xpander for Octane Render provides GPU expansion slots for your existing CPU-intensive render nodes.

When you’re ready to maximize the number of GPUs per workstation, Cubix has a purpose-built, blade or standalone 19” rackmount workstation product, GPU-XpanderBlade, which can host as many as 10 Fermi-based /NVIDIA GPU cards per workstation. An Octane Render hardware solution for any size of application

Whether you simply want to add one GeForce graphics card to a slot & watt-starved PC, add multiple high-performance discrete GPU cards to laptops or MacBook Pro computers, or maximize the number of GPUs per Octane Render workstation, Cubix Visual & GPU Compute Solutions has an Octane Render hardware configuration to match your needs! Please call us within North America at 1-800-829-0550, internationally at +1(775) 888-1000, or send an e-mail to sales@cubixgpu.com