Light Chaser animation Studios, a startup animation computer graphics company based in Beijing, China, has deployed a new network based on high performance fabric Brocade (NASDAQ: CIO) to support its animation production activities
Light Chaser new storage and network links IT resources at the center of Light Chaser data with artists workstations. Light Chaser main office in an Ethernet fabric provides wire-speed performance with low latency required for the production of 3D animation.
Light Chaser was founded last year by Gary Wang , the founder and former CEO of website popular video-sharing of the country, Tudou.com . His goal is to produce world-class animation and capitalize on opportunities in the film of the rapidly growing market of China, which rose 28 percent last year.
00 terabytes of NAS
"As a startup, we were able to deploy the latest and most advanced technologies to support studio operations, "said Ye Yuan, Chief technology light Chaser Animation Studios ." This includes 00 network storage terabytes (NAS), a 400-server render farm and 0 animation workstations. Link these together to create a set that works effectively gives us maximum performance, however, required a homogeneous network can handle our demanding workload, as each frame in a digital output file is now a few gigabytes. "
Brocade solution is a unified Ethernet fabric built around the Brocade VDX family of Ethernet switches. These switches with technology Brocade VCS Fabric, which allowed Chaser light to create a seamless network to its data center and studio of artist that is virtually self-management.
VDX 6710 switches
in the data center, Brocade VDX 6710 switches were deployed as top-of-rack (TOR) switches to provide Gigabit wire-speed Ethernet (GbE) for servers 400 multiprocessor, multi-core that provide the computing power for video rendering Light Chaser.
the VDX 6710 switches have inter-switch capabilities based on hardware circuits, allowing them to be linked on their 10 GbE ports in a cluster that acts as a single, highly resilient virtual device. This approach would provide a latency of only 0 nanosecond port to port, allowing rapid intercommunication between servers in the render farm.
A Brocade VDX 6720 Switch is also part of the switching of Light Chaser cluster of data centers, providing 10GbE lanes servers to switches and NAS network connection in the network multiple 10 GbE connections. It also supports dual 10 GbE links, via fiber optic connections to another Brocade VDX 6720 switch that is bundled with many Brocade VDX 6710 switches on the website of Studio Light Chaser. The latter provides a wire speed GbE connectivity for desktop animation artists.
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