Hobbit is going to be filmed in 4K and also in 3D for double the storage requirements. All lot of what Andy talks about is addressed in Nvidia's cloud and i will try to cover it in the main article.

And as far as something to replace the SSD and blow it away in every metric is FusionIO Storage - a PCIe 3.0 add-in board with super low latency that is just introduced at about $2500 (IO-FX) for servers (and you can use them in parallel), down from $14000 last year. The movie industry is starting to adopt them for this kind of massive data manipulation
http://www.fusionio.com/
http://www.fusionio.com/platforms/iofx/
http://www.guruht.com/2012/01/fusion-io ... -iops.html

Later on this year, it should become available to gamers and home PC enthusiasts. Maximum bandwidth and super-low latency - instant loading of levels.


And if it is successful, it will become much more reasonably priced.

It's gonna take a *serious* GPU to run games at 4k resolution.

Maxwell and Southern (or Arctic ) Islands will probably be able to run Unreal 4 engine games at 4K.

I think that we're going to have to rely on up-sampling for a long time with 4k screens.