The effervescent rise of GPUs: ASWF updates OpenVDB and ColorIO

Siggraph has become an important gathering point for the open-source community. Many of the developers creating tools for digital content creation are working at studios serving the movie industry or at companies working with the studios. Naturally then, Siggraph is the site for the Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) meetings to provide updates on the organization's work over the year. The ASWF was founded in 2018 by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences to further the development of open software that’s developed primarily for the motion picture industry.   This year, the organization announced major updates for its first