Media & Entertainment
The Media and Entertainment fields continue to advance the state-of-the-art in digital animation, rendering, and special effects generation. At the
core of this discipline are the increasingly capable tools used by artists and animators, and increasingly powerful image rendering engines
running on Linux clusters. Together, these tools place increasing demands on today's storage systems. More complex models, textures, and
terrains used as inputs into the rendering process require greater processing capabilities and increasingly more space.
The Panasas Storage Cluster provides accelerated bandwidth performance for the most aggressive animation and rendering applications.
Through parallel data paths, the Panasas Storage Cluster ensures that high performance compute clusters can operate at peak efficiency -
reducing rendering processing time and improving system utilization. Large input datasets, including models, textures, and animation directives
can all be managed within a single, scalable namespace and shared among animators and artists.