Siggraph is one of the few remaining Really Important Shows, this one being held in Boston. (Siggraph is short for "special interest group - graphics".)
At the show, Autodesk is demonstrating its upcoming 64-bit versions of 3ds Max 9 and (Alias) Maya 8.
Maya 8 is the heavyweight, OS- and CPU-wise, running on 64-bit Linux and Windows, and can take advantage of multi-core and multiple CPUs. It's due to ship later this month.
Next up: I'd expect to see a 64-bit version of Inventor.
Maya also runs on Mac OSX.
Posted by: Stefan Boeykens | Aug 22, 2006 at 02:23