On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Arun Khan <[email protected]> wrote: > Spinning off a new thread. > > On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> But few know Redhat has been driving HPC for a while now on which >> render farms run and which is sorta primary requirement for >> visualization. > > Please cite some examples. I am interested. IIRC, Rhythm & Hues > have their own distro (customized openSUSE) geared for all the > animation / vfx apps available on the Linux platform
<http://www.redhat.com/promo/dreamworks/> "Today, DreamWorks Animation uses Red Hat Enterprise MRG, a next-generation infrastructure that incorporates messaging, real-time optimization, and grid functionality. "The render farm is a shared pool of resources that services all of the movies in production at any given time. It is instrumental in how we provide massively parallel computing resources and re-allocate those resources dynamically for our artists," Carstensen said. "We run millions of jobs per week and MRG has done a fantastic job of scaling to our demand and providing the key features for our animation production pipeline." More specifically, the grid middleware had to find the best resources for a job, and dispatch that job, all while maintaining very high utilization. "Between servers and workstations we have more than 4,000 systems, each of which has to operate at peak utilization 24x7x365," said Carstensen." -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
