Making Movies With GridEngine 6

Forwarding from the SGE mailing list. May be very
interesting to the Linux Movies folks.

For details, see:
http://gridengine.info/pages/profile-DNA-Productions

SGE:
http://gridengine.sunsource.net/
http://www.gridengine.info/

Andrew.


On 7/5/06, Chris Dagdigian <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was going to wait until after the holiday week to
post this but
> having just got formal permission to actually use
the name of the
> film in the profile I'm too excited to wait
> 
> A bit of background ...  this is a personal attempt
to try to make up
> for the fact that SGE does not have a press or
marketing budget. Some
> time ago I told myself that time and content
permitting it would be
> interesting to attempt to document some of the
"success stories" I've
> come across regarding the use of Grid Engine in
production
> distributed computing environments.
> 
> This is my first attempt and the focus is on  a
company that is
> making a 3D animated film for Warner Brothers that
will be released
> in 3D IMAX and standard 35mm theatrical form later
on this month. The
> render farm runs SGE and the setup and integration
with the
> production workflow is very interesting.
> 
> ##
> 
> Online at this URL:
> http://gridengine.info/pages/profile-DNA-Productions
> 
> Quick Facts
>     * Company: DNA Productions, Dallas TX
>     * Business: 3D animation projects and features
>     * CPUs managed by Grid Engine: 1,400
>     * Storage: 73TB Isilon clustered storage
>     * Average # SGE jobs per day: 150,000
>     * Average # “shots” per week: 100
>     * Seriously Cool: Grid Engine prolog and epilog
scripts report
> job parameters, start times, job array index
position, usage data and
> exit status information to a central SQL database.
The data is piped
> to web dashboards that provide producers and
animators with
> “percentage shot complete” and “percentage frame
complete”
> information. The density of job related information
retained in the
> SQL database is enough to allow for 100% accurate
re-execution of any
> prior job for any reason.
> 
> ##
> 
> Please send me feedback and comments and feel free
to nominate other
> people and companies for future profiles...
> 
> Regards,
> Chris

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