NVIDIA Maximus

Visualize and simulate at the same time on a single system

Engineers, designers, and content creation professionals are constantly being challenged to find new ways to explore and validate more ideas—faster. This often involves creating content with both visual design and physical simulation demands. For example, designing a car or creating a digital film character and understanding how air flows over the car or the character's clothing moves in an action scene.

Unfortunately, the design and simulation processes have often been disjointed, occurring on different systems or at different times.

Introducing NVIDIA Maximus

NVIDIA Maximus-powered workstations are the first to deliver a unified platform that solves this challenge. They combine the industry-leading professional 3D graphics capability of NVIDIA Quadro® GPUs and the high performance computing power of NVIDIA® Tesla™ GPUs. It's a powerful combination that lets you effortlessly transform the entire design process.

NVIDIA Maximus technology means companies no longer have to create workflows with multiple stages to combine the power of visual computing with high-performance computing. Tesla co-processors automatically take the heavy lifting of rendering or CAE computations, freeing the Quadro GPUs to do what they do best—enabling rich interactive graphics.

Reinventing the WorkFlow

With Maximus, engineers, designers and content creation professionals can continue to remain productive and work with maximum complexity in real-time.

Maximize Performance

Simulation analysis and CAD

With Maximus technology, you can perform simultaneous structural or fluid dynamics analysis with applications such as ANSYS while running your design application, including SolidWorks and PTC Creo.

Faster simulations, more job instances¹

Relative Performance Scale vs 2 CPU Cores

Photorealistic rendering and CAD

With Maximus technology, you can perform rapid photorealistic rendering of your designs in applications such as 3ds Max or Bunkspeed while still using your system for other work.

Maximus Performance for 3ds Max 2012 with iray²

Relative Performance Scale vs 8 CPU Cores

Ray tracing with CATIA Live Rendering

With Maximus technology, photorealistic rendering is interactive. And it allows you to simultaneously run other applications without bogging down your system.

Maximus Performance for CATIA Live Rendering⁴

Relative Performance Scale vs 8 CPU Cores

Fast, fluid editing with Premier Pro

With Maximus technology, you can relieve the pressure of getting more done in less time.

Adobe Premier Pro Price/Performance³

Adobe Mercury Playback Engine (MPE)

Numerical analytics with MATLAB

Quickly explore large datasets and complete multiple iterations in the time it used to take to do just one With new NVIDIA Maximus technology, MATLAB users can accelerate their discovery and development by exploring large datasets to quickly apply multiple transformations and experiment with different algorithms. The result is more robust and accurate mathematical operations that deliver answers exponentially faster.

Speed-up of Elementwise Computations

Relative Performance of GPU compared to CPU

Relative Performance, Point-in-Polygon Demo

Speed-up of Computations

Relative Performance of GPU compared to CPU

Relative Performance, A\b Benchmark (Matrix Left Division)

Case Studies and Testimonials

Testimonials

"The real advantage of the Maximus technology is flexibility. I don't have to give each of my engineers a workflow to run through. It's up to them. What they work on first or when doesn't matter anymore, because the Maximus system can handle it all at the same time - it's a tremendous tool because my team is not waiting on computational power, period."
- Tim Ong, VP Mechanical Engineering, Liquid Robotics

"The NVIDIA Maximus-powered system is like getting three people's worth of use on a single machine. This system is a beast. We haven't yet found anything it can't handle, even simultaneous CAD, analysis, and additional number crunching in remote rendering jobs. We can do all our highly complex analysis or rendering without interrupting other work going on."
- Jason Calaiaro, Director of Information Systems for Astrobotic Technology

"Last year, we were forced to compromise, eliminating a lot of great features and dumbing things down because our computer technology wasn't fast enough to perform the design and rendering we needed. This year was an entirely different story. The NVIDIA Maximus-powered system gave us the time to explore different options - with Maximus systems we can now be 10 times more creative. In a given amount of time, we can explore so many different options and get to a better end product."
- Alan Barrington, the Mercedes Advanced Design Center California.