HP helpt Turbo van DreamWorks Animation razendsnel de bioscoop in
HP technologie laat computeranimatiefilms tot de verbeelding spreken
“Dankzij onze samenwerking met HP waren we in de studio verzekerd van high-performance computing, continue beschikbaarheid van data en gestroomlijnde managementoplossingen. Zo konden we de droom van tuinslak Turbo om ‘s werelds snelste racer te worden, in hoog tempo realiseren”, zegt Derek Chan, hoofd van de afdeling Technology Global Operations bij DreamWorks Animation. “HP’s advanced Converged Infrastructure portfolio maakte het voor onze developers en designers mogelijk om de hoogste beschikbare beeldkwaliteit te gebruiken.”
Ook bij eerdere Dreamworks Animation’s producties was HP betrokken. De innovatieve technologie werd ook ingezet voor Shrek, How to train your dragon, Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar en The Rise of the Guardian.
Turbo binnenkort te zien
Turbo zal deze week te zien zijn in de bioscoop, zowel in de originele versie als Nederlands gesproken.
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HP Converged Infrastructure technology spanning servers, storage, networking, services and management software; HP Converged Cloud; and HP Workstations and printers helped DreamWorks Animation process massive amounts of data, creating new levels of imagery and powering innovative computer graphics (CG) animated movie-making techniques.
“DreamWorks Animation’s strategic alliance with HP ensured that we had the high-performance computing, continuous availability and streamlined management capabilities needed to accurately depict Turbo’s dream of becoming the world’s fastest racer,” said Derek Chan, head of Technology Global Operations, DreamWorks Animation. “HP’s advanced Converged Infrastructure portfolio enabled our artists and engineers to create the highest-quality picture possible.”
HP Workstations, HP Networking enable efficiency
DreamWorks Animation tapped the power of HP Z Workstations to recreate the thrill of the Indy 500, with a snail traveling 220 miles per hour and more than 500,000 crowd characters filling a replica of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
HP Z800 and Z820 Workstations, powered by Intel® Sandy Bridge Xeon® E5 processors, enabled artists to execute iterations 50 percent faster than previous workstations and develop increasingly complex camera angles and special effects. When not in use by creative teams, workstation processing power was used to run nighttime rendering jobs, contributing to the millions of compute hours needed to produce the movie.
Integrated with HP Workstations, HP Remote Graphics Software—a free HP Workstation tool—enabled animators to collaborate more efficiently across geographies by viewing ideas and assets on a single display.
HP FlexNetwork architecture solutions enabled DreamWorks Animation to increase performance, reduce latency between global studio locations and provide constant availability to support faster rendering and review times while boosting animator productivity.
HP Networking provided animators with access to a central repository of assets, simplifying collaboration by allowing artists to easily share and retrieve resources across all locations. In addition, the highly reliable network infrastructure allows creative teams to work anytime from anywhere, with production spread across studios from Glendale and Redwood City, Calif., to Bangalore, India.
HP Converged Cloud services and servers boost processing power, scalability
The production of “Turbo” required 75 million render hours to create fully realized images, including 32 Indy 500 race cars and 32 million crowd character instances, the most of any DreamWorks Animation film to date.
DreamWorks Animation utilized HP Enterprise Cloud Services to provide a robust, scalable, cloud-based infrastructure that offers the additional compute power needed to render the 10 CG films that are in production at any given time. HP Enterprise Cloud Services, part of the HP Converged Cloud portfolio, enables DreamWorks Animation to meet growing business needs while remaining within its existing data center footprint.
To handle the rendering demands of “Turbo,” DreamWorks Animation relied on the high-performance computing capabilities of HP ProLiant Generation 8 (Gen8) servers. HP ProLiant Gen8 servers increased render throughput by approximately 40 percent and performance per watt by approximately 42 percent,(1) allowing DreamWorks Animation to render an average of 500,000 jobs a day to ensure that the studio had the compute power to complete the production on time.
HP delivers comprehensive technology solutions
The breadth of HP’s portfolio provides DreamWorks Animation with comprehensive technology solutions, enhancing each aspect of production, including:
- Reliable application performance through HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage, creating a storage infrastructure for critical production pipeline tools. Secondary HP 3PAR StoreServ arrays provide disaster-recovery capabilities to keep operations up and running.
- Secured archiving with HP StoreAll 9730 Storage allows artists and engineers to protect and conveniently access the 230 terabytes of files that make up “Turbo,” in addition to the studio’s other films and production assets.
- Simplified network management with the HP Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF) enables the studio to manage multiple article network switches and configure redundancy without unwanted downtime.
- Increased data center density and flexibility with HP BladeSystem c7000, allowing engineers to smoothly implement next-generation servers with minimal disruption.
- Improved color accuracy and consistency across workstations and printers with HP DreamColor displays to simplify creative decision making without the need for specially designed color rooms.
- Reduced print management complexity and improved workflow processes with HP Managed Print Services, which leverage integrated monitoring software to enable DreamWorks Animation to anticipate future resource demands, accelerate business and quickly remediate technical issues.
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- The t820 Flexible Thin Client is factory equipped to simultaneously support up to 3 monitors utilizing the on-board Intel HD 4600 Graphics card with 1 x VGA and 2 x Display Port connectors. Expansion options include support up to 7 Full HD monitors (1920x 1080), 6 WUXGA monitors (1920x 1200), or 4 WQXGA monitors (2560x 1600). Using 4 or more monitors require a factory-installed AMD Radeon HD 7560A expansion video card, and also requires one or more HP Display Port Multi-Stream Hubs, or Display Port 1.2 monitors with daisy-chain capabilities.
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