Stephan Woermann shows off a tech preview of Softimage2Octane, a link between softimage and the Octane Render, the GPU Interactive Physically Based Render Engine. Admittedly, I was unable to find much information on this tech preview, but it does look promising!

Softimage2Octane: Tech Preview from Stephan Woermann on Vimeo.

Softimage2Octane: Tech Preview Part2 from Stephan Woermann on Vimeo.