NVIDIA's GRID VCA now available to graphic crunching pros at a cool $24,900

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http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/03/nvidia-grid-vca-3-20-13-01_620x340.jpgWhile it won't supercharge Crysis (http://www.engadget.com/tag/crysis/) or other games like its upcoming Cloud Gaming device (http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/06/nvidia-grid-unveiled/) may, NVIDIA's GRID Visual Computing Appliance is now up for grabs to designers, animators and visual production types for $24,900 plus a $2,400 yearly software license fee. That sum will merely get you the starter model consisting of 8 GPUs, 16 threads of CPU and 192GB of RAM to service up to 8 users, while the 16 GPU model -- which doubles all that up -- is hitting the dreaded "contact us" price point. For reasonable-sized studios with multiple designers or artists, though, it'd allow humdrum machines to link up via a network and still crunch complex models -- making the price rather beside the point for us individual users. For more info, hit the PR after the jump.


http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/20/nvidias-grid-vca-now-available/