News Release

EnFuzion3D 2009 Support for Maya 2010 and 3dsMax

Autodesk Maya 2010, 3dsMax support added to EnFuzion3D 2009


Sunnyvale, California. (September 14th, 2009) - Axceleon, a leader in high performance distributed computing solutions for render farms and clusters today announced it has completed the integration of Maya 2010 and 3dsMax with its industry leading render farm management software product EnFuzion3D 2009.

Axceleon is pleased to announce support for Autodesk's Maya 2010 and 3dsMax 2010 products. The company is committed to staying current on all new releases of partner products for the benefit our global EnFuzion customers. EnFuzion render farm management software continues to gain market share across North America and is the only render farm management product which has high availability options that support "Active/Active EnFuzion Head Nodes" delivering fully redundant clusters and render farms which is mandatory for the larger studios. Combine this with our total commitment to customer support and 3D animation software "plug-in" development makes EnFuzion the only real management software solution for today’s mission critical render farms.

EnFuzion3D 2009 feature highlights are as follows:

  • Support for Softimage|XSI 7.5, 3dsMax 2010 and Maya 2010 from Autodesk
  • Support for Combustion from Autodesk
  • Support for NukeTM from The Foundry
  • Support for After Effects CS4 from Adobe
  • Support for Alienbrain and Tactic asset managers
  • Support for LPM Pass Manager, which enables multiple rendering passes on 3dsMax scenes
  • Improved EnFuzion Desktop and its graphical job submission GUIs
  • High Availability Option supports Active/Active EnFuzion head nodes delivering fully redundant Clusters
  • Remote Node Configuration tools
  • Advanced EnFuzion Control Center, with dynamic Node, Pool Management, and Configuration
  • EnFuzion Remote Desktop, provides the ability to upload scenes to an EnFuzion render farm and manage all activities from local desktop from outside the firewall.
  • OPEN API, "C" and HTTP-based API enables rapid Plug-in development using Python/Perl
  • For complete Technical Specifications please visit: http://www.axceleon.com/specs.html

EnFuzion is the only HPC (High Performance Computing) based commercial render farm software product on the market today that enables "seamless rendering" with major 3D applications both behind the firewall and in the Amazon EC2 Cloud. To learn more about or schedule a demo of EnFuzion3D 2009, or the technical details & business aspects of EnFuzion and High Performance Computing please contact Axceleon at info@axceleon.com.



About EnFuzion3D 2009 for Render Farms

Axceleon Inc. is the provider of EnFuzion the, open architecture, high-performance distributed computing solution for clusters, grids and render farms. EnFuzion3D 2009 is an industrial-strength render farm management software solution. EnFuzion3D 2009 runs natively on all major OS platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac OS and IRIX) and all major 64/32-bit hardware platforms from AMD, Intel, Apple and SGI. Plug-ins for all major rendering packages are available, including Maya, 3ds Max, Toxik, Softimage XSI, NukeTM, Combustion, After Effects, BlenderTM, mental ray, Vray, TurtleTM, 3Delight and more. EnFuzion was first deployed on an SGI/Irix render farm running Alias Maya with CBS News in 2000.

EnFuzion is deployed in the energy, financial, bioinformatics, 3D rendering, telecommunications, scientific research and engineering applications, where it helps users to get more results faster. EnFuzion was one of the first sizeable deployments of grid computing technology on Wall Street in 1999. To learn more about EnFuzion, and Axceleon, please visit www.axceleon.com.


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