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
Team Size: Tech Used: Software: Microsoft technologies Implementation |