NVIDIA Releases Gelato Pro For Free
Posted by Michael Larabel on June 02, 2008
In addition to NVIDIA releasing the 173.14.05 Linux/FreeBSD/Solaris driver this past week, they've made an additional software move. NVIDIA has decided to release Gelato Pro, which previously costed $1,500 USD per node, as now a free download. Gelato Pro is rendering software developed (originally the Blue Moon Rendering Tools and Entropy software before a 2002 acquisition by NVIDIA) that allows for advanced acceleration on NVIDIA (specifically the Quadro series) GPUs. There has been a Gelato non-Pro edition of this software capable of rendering film-quality images that has been available for a free download, but now the professional edition is also free. The caveat for making this free, however, is that NVIDIA no longer plans to maintain the Gelato software. They have discontinued all work on the Gelato software and will be focusing their resources on mental ray software.
The press release announcing this move can be found here with added information at Gelato Zone. Gelato Pro is available for both x86 and x86_64 Linux.
The press release announcing this move can be found here with added information at Gelato Zone. Gelato Pro is available for both x86 and x86_64 Linux.
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