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Major Animation Studio Speeds to Finish Line on Latest Feature Film With IBRIX
Overview Digital effects houses and film studios have leveraged the computational power of high performance clusters for rendering and other complex jobs. Over time, the size and makeup of the clusters have changed. Commodity-based clusters are replacing more costly symmetric multiprocessing 'big iron' machines, and node count has increased from the handful it might have taken a few years ago to thousands of processors today. This case study discusses the challenges a California animation Studio had in making the summer 2006 release date of its latest film. Having produced six animated feature-length films over the past nine years, the Studio was a proven leader, but suddenly was left scrambling when faced with mounting production delays because frames were taking 10 times longer to render.
| Publisher | EMC | File Format | |
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| Date Published | May 2008 | Downloads | 14 |
| Format | Case Studies | ||
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