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Lucid Hydra breaks ground in multi-GPU scaling

An Israeli start-up company claims to have made a breakthrough in parallel graphics technology which allows for a mixture of any type of graphics card to be used in a system for improved scaling, which completely defies the boundaries of Crossfire and SLI which require two or more of the same model card in order to function.

The technology is called "Hydra"; the beast with many heads. It is essentially a system-on-a-chip (SoC) which uses exclusive software to detect and balance the workload of multiple GPUs/graphics cards found in the system; regardless of the CPU or motherboard chipset.

"We're currently focusing our HYDRA engine on improving everyday PC performance, but our vision is to bring more scalability, flexibility and power to all visual processing markets including graphics professionals, power gamers, design/engineering professionals and others," says Offir Remez, Lucid co-founder and president. "With strong venture backing, a superior patent portfolio and experienced leaders in all aspects of semiconductor and 3D computing graphics, we're a nimble team passionate about working with our partners to realize our vision of universally amazing graphics for all."

It's been confirmed that the Hydra engine does not require any modification of existing software and is fully compatible with DirectX, though there is no mention of OpenGL support just yet. Providing development continues at its current pace, Lucid Logix plans to bring this technology to market as early as Q1'09. Exciting stuff; let's hope it delivers and shows performance scaling on par or better than what we're used to seeing.

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#1 | Ragamuffin on July 22 2008 09:16:08

I also read up on that a couple of days ago. They say it can scale at up around 100% !!!

So example, normally 2 vid cards would = 1.3 in performance now it will = 2

#2 | von on July 22 2008 20:57:05

Intel are making there X58 boards for Nehalem Sli and CF compatible with the Nforce 200 chipset onboard but Hydra looks much more promising in terms of MGP plus cross platform

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