Friday, December 7, 2007

Super Computer accelerates Super yacht design

Urban Voyage, a New Zealand based 3D Design Studio have introduced Supercomputing power to the Super yacht industry through a recent collaboration with yacht owners and award winning builder ‘Yachting Developments’ in project ‘Bristolian’.

Bringing the 120ft (37m), Phillipe Briand designed composite sloop project to life, Urban Voyage were able to deliver overnight design changes and work 24-hour workdays to complete the project and its requirements. Utilizing an exclusive and ongoing partnership with Gen-i’s New Zealand Supercomputing Centre, Urban Voyage could process information with the power of the equivalent of over 1,000 cpus, thus dramatically reducing rendering time and allowing ‘on the go’ and real time changes to the project benefiting the owners, designers and builders unanimously.

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