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Century Communications Ltd : LEAP

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This project was designed for VXF and Animation industry. The process of

rendering takes lot of time and very expensive IT hardware. Needless to add, it

consumes a lot of computing power and so, a huge cluster of servers is required

to run the rendering process. As a result, a lot of power is required to run

such a huge cluster, the rack servers take up a lot of space, and the time taken

for the rendering process is too tiring. The traditional way of designing render

farms is on 2u form factor servers, wherein each server takes more space, more

power and offers less computing power for the rendering process. So, the company

went for blade server technology as a part of render farms for rendering of

images. Here, 64 servers go in one 42u rack as against 28 in the traditional 2u

servers.

Each 2u server draws 450-500 watts of power as against less than 200 in blade

servers thus saving huge power, as instead of 64 power supplies only 6 power

supplies work in blade technology. The performance of a blade server is approx

30% better as compared to 2u form factor hence saving a lot valuable time that

is wasted in a rendering process. The project was initially started on 26 blade

servers and now has been replicated on 192 blades.



Project Specs


Project Head:Abhishek Tiwari,

Director



Deployment Location:
Mumbai and Chennai

Team Size:

Seven

Tech Used:



Hardware: HP Blade System servers, Cisco Catalyst Blade

Switches, and HP Ethernet Series of Blade switches

Software: Microsoft technologies

Implementation

Partner




Sandeep Vahi, Compton Computers

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