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SeeFile and Intelligent Gadgets Collaborate at Siggraph 2007

Complete Collaboration Bundle, Including Software Packages, Server and 1 Terabyte of Storage Hardware, Priced at $1,995

LOS ANGELES, CA and Boston MA - August 1, 2007 - Intelligent Gadgets (www.syncvue.com), the creators of advanced collaborative digital media review and approval tools, and SeeFile (www.seefile.com), a developer of web server software for sharing media files, today announced the two companies are joining forces at Siggraph 2007 in San Diego (August 7 - 9) to demonstrate the benefits of a combined video-enabled collaborative review and approval system. During the conference, the bundled solution will be demonstrated at the SeeFile booth, and will be available for immediate purchase. more

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During SIGGRAPH 2007, NVIDIA (booth # 513) a recognized leader in programmable graphics processor technologies will usher in the era of “personal supercomputing” with NVIDIA® Tesla™, the company‘s new line of processors for high-performance computing coupled with the latest NVIDIA® Quadro® professional graphics solutions.

With Tesla, computations that previously took hours, days or even weeks are now taking only minutes and in some cases computing in real time - achieving performance improvements that are 45 to 415 times faster than traditional processors. more

Universal Pictures‘ Evan Almighty was designed to have visual effects of mythic proportions, and a raft of houses—including the big facilities Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) and Rhythm & Hues (R&H)—contributed to this Noah‘s Ark comedy. But alongside R&H‘s photoreal CG animals and ILM‘s flood simulation was an interesting contribution from the Los Angeles-based shop TeamWorks Digital. With its veteran Visual Effects Supervisor David Allen at the helm, TeamWorks temporarily set up shop at Universal Studios to wrangle disparate digital elements in several sequences. One of those sequences included a climactic scene that was added to the film well into postproduction. To achieve it, TeamWorks used an approach that Allen considers “postviz.” To read more, click here.