Challenges
• Increase rendering performance. As Blackmagic Design embarked on a large-scale 3D stereoscopic international feature film project, they needed more rendering power and hard disk capacity to store large, high-resolution film files.
• Make more room for creativity and experimentation. Accelerate the rendering process to enable animators to do more iterations and refinements to CGI, improving the final quality of the visual effects.
Solutions
• Install a multi-core processor-based server. Blackmagic Design had a render farm customized by NOVATTE, a supercomputer manufacturer in Singapore. The render farm is powered with four hot-swap, two-way Intel® Xeon® processors 5600 and Intel® 5500 series chipset in a compact base rack form.
• Deploy designer workstations. 11 NOVATTE HPC TT100* designer workstations were set up to boost Blackmagic Design’s capacity to deliver. All are powered by two-way Intel Xeon processors 5600 and Intel 5520 series chipset.
Introduction Blackmagic Design is one of the world’s leading post-production facilities, specializing in commercials, high-definition documentaries, digital intermediate, and feature film finishing. Providing the very latest in resolution-independent, data-centric workflows, and technology, Blackmagic Design works in creative partnership with its clients to produce work of an impeccably high standard. Blackmagic Design is also world-renowned for manufacturing its own post production equipment that sets the standard for price/performance and high-end affordability. In 2010, Blackmagic Design was awarded the post production and visual effects for international 3D stereoscopic feature film ‘BAIT’. Set in a sleepy Gold Coast seaside town, ‘BAIT’ is the story of a freak tsunami that traps shoppers and tourists in a flooded underground supermarket and car park along with hungry great white sharks.
Read the full Intel® Xeon® Processors Empower the Blackmagic Design Team case study.
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Challenges
• Increase rendering performance. As Blackmagic Design embarked on a large-scale 3D stereoscopic international feature film project, they needed more rendering power and hard disk capacity to store large, high-resolution film files.
• Make more room for creativity and experimentation. Accelerate the rendering process to enable animators to do more iterations and refinements to CGI, improving the final quality of the visual effects.
Solutions
• Install a multi-core processor-based server. Blackmagic Design had a render farm customized by NOVATTE, a supercomputer manufacturer in Singapore. The render farm is powered with four hot-swap, two-way Intel® Xeon® processors 5600 and Intel® 5500 series chipset in a compact base rack form.
• Deploy designer workstations. 11 NOVATTE HPC TT100* designer workstations were set up to boost Blackmagic Design’s capacity to deliver. All are powered by two-way Intel Xeon processors 5600 and Intel 5520 series chipset.
Introduction Blackmagic Design is one of the world’s leading post-production facilities, specializing in commercials, high-definition documentaries, digital intermediate, and feature film finishing. Providing the very latest in resolution-independent, data-centric workflows, and technology, Blackmagic Design works in creative partnership with its clients to produce work of an impeccably high standard. Blackmagic Design is also world-renowned for manufacturing its own post production equipment that sets the standard for price/performance and high-end affordability. In 2010, Blackmagic Design was awarded the post production and visual effects for international 3D stereoscopic feature film ‘BAIT’. Set in a sleepy Gold Coast seaside town, ‘BAIT’ is the story of a freak tsunami that traps shoppers and tourists in a flooded underground supermarket and car park along with hungry great white sharks.
Read the full Intel® Xeon® Processors Empower the Blackmagic Design Team case study.
