Announced at SIGGRAPH 2009, HP is making available the Elemental Accelerator for Nvidia Quadro plug-in for Adobe Creative Suite 4 an option on the company’s family of workstations. Now available on the full line of HP workstations, includingthe new HP Z Workstations, the NVIDIA CUDA-based Elemental Accelerator 2.0 plug-in software for Nvidia Quadro GPUs delivers further performance benefits when working with Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, says a representative.
Nvidia and HP provide creative professionals with workstations enhanced to meet the needs of Adobe CS4 users. By leveraging the CUDA parallel computing architecture, this new plug-in software offloads H.264 video encoding to the Quadro GPU, enabling Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 users to experience a performance increase of up to 11 times when compared to CPU-only video encoders.
HP workstations also include Performance Tuning Framework for Creative Suite 4, which provides users a quick and easy way to configure and update their workstations and improve the stability and performance of their systems while increasing productivity, reveals a representative.
With an HP workstation equipped with a Quadro GPU, CS4 users can take advantage of its GPU-accelerated functionality and receive optimal application performance in Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Flash, and Photoshop.
Elemental Accelerator 2.0 plug-in software works in conjunction with Nvidia Quadro FX 1800, 3800, 4800, and 5800 GPUs. It is available on the HP Z800, Z600, Z400, xw4600, and xw9400 workstations.