DreamWorks: Setting More Records
HP* solutions deliver 60+ percent more throughput to help the studio break new ground faster than ever.
Objective
Boost rendering throughput while minimizing power consumption, and improve backup and archiving service capabilities
Approach
Deploy HP ProLiant G6* server blades, HP StorageWorks EVA*, and HP StorageWorks X9000 Network Storage* systems
IT Improvements
• 60+ percent more rendering throughput
• 30+ percent more performance per watt
• Minimized server administration through remote management
• Service-level agreements in backup and archiving met or exceeded
• Search and retrieval of usable assets in seconds instead of day
Business Benefits
• Multi-million dollar power capacity upgrade deferred
• Key enabler to render capacity for an increased production slate
• Enhanced creativity from the ability to support more rendering
It’s one of life’s most universal pleasures: enter a movie theatre, sit back in a comfortable chair, watch a screen, and be swept away. DreamWorks Animation SKG (DreamWorks) delivers this pleasure better than most. Out of tens of thousands of titles released in over 100 years of cinema, two DreamWorks movies (Shrek 2 and Shrek the Third) are among the top 20 highest-grossing films of all time in the United States. There are plans at DreamWorks to set more records—and one of the bottlenecks has been the computer. “We hire people who have unbounded imaginations,” explains Ed Leonard, CTO, DreamWorks Animation SKG. “Our job as technologists is to position technology as a creative enabler as opposed to a constraint to our film makers’ creativity. “Every pixel on screen needs to be designed, approved, created, rendered and lit with specific intention,” says Hans Ku, alliance manager at DreamWorks. “Everything is created from pure imagination in a computer graphics movie,” he points out. “And that’s why we’re so reliant on compute and our partnerships with Intel and HP. You can only put as much on screen as the compute capacity allows.”
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DreamWorks: Setting More Records
HP* solutions deliver 60+ percent more throughput to help the studio break new ground faster than ever.
Objective
Boost rendering throughput while minimizing power consumption, and improve backup and archiving service capabilities
Approach
Deploy HP ProLiant G6* server blades, HP StorageWorks EVA*, and HP StorageWorks X9000 Network Storage* systems
IT Improvements
• 60+ percent more rendering throughput
• 30+ percent more performance per watt
• Minimized server administration through remote management
• Service-level agreements in backup and archiving met or exceeded
• Search and retrieval of usable assets in seconds instead of day
Business Benefits
• Multi-million dollar power capacity upgrade deferred
• Key enabler to render capacity for an increased production slate
• Enhanced creativity from the ability to support more rendering
It’s one of life’s most universal pleasures: enter a movie theatre, sit back in a comfortable chair, watch a screen, and be swept away. DreamWorks Animation SKG (DreamWorks) delivers this pleasure better than most. Out of tens of thousands of titles released in over 100 years of cinema, two DreamWorks movies (Shrek 2 and Shrek the Third) are among the top 20 highest-grossing films of all time in the United States. There are plans at DreamWorks to set more records—and one of the bottlenecks has been the computer. “We hire people who have unbounded imaginations,” explains Ed Leonard, CTO, DreamWorks Animation SKG. “Our job as technologists is to position technology as a creative enabler as opposed to a constraint to our film makers’ creativity. “Every pixel on screen needs to be designed, approved, created, rendered and lit with specific intention,” says Hans Ku, alliance manager at DreamWorks. “Everything is created from pure imagination in a computer graphics movie,” he points out. “And that’s why we’re so reliant on compute and our partnerships with Intel and HP. You can only put as much on screen as the compute capacity allows.”
Read the full DreamWorks: Setting More Records Case Study.
