EnFuzion3D For Render Farms

High Performance Computing Comes to Hollywood : 

High Performance Computing Comes to Hollywood Mike Duffy President and CEO Axceleon Inc.

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Expected Users of High Performance Computing UN-Expected Users of High Performance Computing Elements of a High Performance Computing Compute Farm The Evolving Image Rendering Ecosystem Looks like HPC to us What Happened? Where Is The Industry Going? Where Does EnFuzion Help In The Evolving 3D HPC Ecosystem On-Demand Rendering Next Step Axceleon Presentation Overview

Expected Users of High Performance Computing : 

Expected Users of High Performance Computing US Department of Energy National Laboratories Lawrence Livermore, Sandia, Los Alamos Airplane Manufacturers Boeing, Airbus Automotive Companies GM, Ford, Toyota, Mazda, Honda, Isuzu Engineering Companies Lockheed, Northrup Grumman, Caterpillar, Peterbilt Trucks etc. All need major computing horsepower to run their business High Performance Computing (HPC)

Un – Expected High Performance Computing Users : 

Motion Picture Companies – Disney, DreamWorks Visual Effects houses building content for movies, games Post production houses – get to market faster Broadcasters world-wide – where time to the air is critical Advertising Companies – those products with catchy ads Gamers – fastest growing segment of the DCC marketplace Medical Imaging – Better diagnosis, faster cures These companies too need major computing horsepower to run and effectively manage their businesses Un – Expected High Performance Computing Users High Performance Computing (HPC)

Elements of a HPC Compute Farm : 

Elements of a HPC Compute Farm Usually HPC systems are located in Datacenters Have “Big Iron”, hundreds of Multi-Core machines Fast Intel processors Large memory sizes, 32G to 64+ Giga bytes of memory per machine Very fast internal networks Min 1 Gigabit speed, moving to 10 Gigabits Larger compute farms have Quadrics, Myrinet, Infiniband network fabrics Large Storage requirements, minimum is Terabytes most at Petabyte levels High Performance Computing (HPC)Farms

The Evolving Rendering Ecosystem : 

The Evolving Rendering Ecosystem HD driving disruptive growth Render Farms getting bigger Extreme demands on network and storage Render nodes switching from desktops/white boxes to servers, with Blade Servers being deployed more and more as render farms Scalability, Reliability and Performance are real concerns as farms and processor densities grows OS switching from Windows to Linux, with OSX becoming more popular Demand for Quality Render Farm Management Software on the rise High Availability, Auto-Fail Over, Remote Node Management Mandatory Image Rendering Ecosystem

Looks Like HPC To Us : 

7 Looks Like HPC To Us Bigger and Bigger Machines, all now seem to be 8 core and now moving to 16 usable cores with the Intel Nehalem Chip set More and more of these (Commodity off the shelf) COTS and Blade Machines Fast Networks, 1 Gigabit or 10 GigE showing up in Hollywood studios more and more, not quite Quadrics network fabrics yet Terabyte moving to Petabyte storage arrays HPC Rendering Farms

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Shrek (2001) 525 processor server farm plus 300 company desktops 5 million computer hours of render time needed Shrek 2 (2004) 1:45 in length 20 Terabytes of data 10 million computer hours of render time needed Some frames took 30-40 hours to render 3000-processor render farm of HP servers and 300+ HP workstations Shrek 3 (2007) 20 million computer hours of render time needed DreamWorks = 4500 nodes, Disney in excess of this, smaller no-name studios in LA are running 2000 – 3000 nodes Even with the advancements and speed in hardware for these Render / HPC compute farms the need for more render time still doubled with each Shrek movie reinforcing the need for resource management software (EnFuzion® ) to optimize the hardware/storage resources Source: The San Francisco Chronicle Source: Exodus Film Group HPC* = High Performance Computing HPC Rendering Farms

Transformers Stats : 

9 Transformers Stats HPC Rendering Farms Bumblebee = approx 8,000 pieces/elements Optimus Prime = Approx 10,000 pieces/elements 80,000 compute/render hours to render 1 scene Source: Renee Dunlop, CG Society.org. 18 June 2009, Clare Kaufmann, http://education.yahoo.net/degrees/articles/digital_transformers.html Source: Matt Sullivan, www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/42/8826.html . Transformers: Bonus Material, Special Features. Dir. Michael Bay

Where Is The Industry Going? : 

Where Is The Industry Going? More disruptive growth driving demands for HPC like systems and functionality inside studios large and small Must be 24x7, becoming mission critical and driving demand for full redundancy of render farm Head Nodes, Compute Nodes and Cluster/Render Management software Bigger and faster machines for rendering will then enable even more complex and grandiose visual effects within required project timelines Single computer “Real-Time Rendering” solutions coming on the scene, not clear at all if this GPU based computing will displace the traditional CPU based render farms in use world-wide today Industry Direction

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EnFuzion® – 12 Years of continuous deployment in Mission Critical environments Supported 3D Animation since 1998, Plug-ins for 90% of 3D Applications Heterogeneous robust Render Farm resource manager Performance – fastest scheduler in the Industry Scalability – Built to scale with minimum network load, (10,000s’ of CPU/Cores) Drives all cores in multi-core machines on 32 and 64 bit processors (Windows and Linux) Full OSX support, PowerPC (G4/G5) and Intel architectures for Mac OS (Tiger, Leopard) Reliable 24x7 fault tolerance features – work around HW, SW, memory, network, renderer problems OPEN ARCHITECTURE, Full API, scripting interface , extensive admin/ reporting tools High Availability and Auto-Fail over options available, Remote Node Management Support’s “green grid” initiative with WoL (Wake on Lan) and can shut down unused machines and rendering nodes when work done. Web based Control Center , Web based Front End for “remote job submission” Solid Customer Satisfaction EnFuzion3D Resource Management

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How Does EnFuzion® Work EnFuzion Resource Management

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THE EVOLVED RENDER FARM = CloudFuzion EC2 + Amazon EC2 Cloud CloudFuzion EC2 Plug-In for Amazon EC2 EnFuzion®

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THE EVOLVED RENDER FARM “On Demand” Rendering RENDER FARM AMAZON EC2 CLOUD On-Demand Rendering EnFuzion® EnFuzion®

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EnFuzion High Availability – Auto Fail Over EnFuzion Submit host EnFuzion Root host EnFuzion Compute Nodes IP: 66.124.53.150 EnFuzion Submit host EnFuzion Root host EnFuzion Compute Nodes IP: 66.124.53.152 On Network/Hardware Failure On Network/Hardware Failure

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Success Stories

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Axceleon is a software company founded in 2002 with a focus on high performance computing, clustering, grid computing and resource management for render farms. HQ in Sunnyvale CA., presence in Los Angeles, China, Singapore, Tampa, New York, R&D center planned for Ireland in late 2010. Customers in over 18 countries. Hardware Channel Partner: IBM, HP, Dell, Sun and SGI Key ISV Partners: Siemens, Novell, Red Hat, Microsoft, Intel, Autodesk, Apple, The Foundry, Maxon, and AMD Engaged with select resellers and system integrators in the US, Japan, China, Taiwan and Europe that focus on clustering and the 3D animation market. Axceleon Snapshot

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Thank you

EnFuzion Demos @ at Axceleon Booth 2224 : 

EnFuzion Demos @ at Axceleon Booth 2224 EnFuzion3D 2009 EnFuzion Remote Desktop EnFuzion EC2 with the elastic EC2 render farm Thank you Any questions? Footnotes are very small and need not be capitalized.