October 30, 2014, 11:20 am
Burn poll,
local rendering negating the need for a burn farm? |
| posted by Brian Krusic on Oct. 30, 2014, 2:20 p.m. (2 days ago) |
| Hi,
Im contemplating the use of an add in graphics card so that Flame can kick renders to it while continuing unabated. This would hopefully negate the need for a burn farm.
Has any one run tests of this nature, comparisons etc...?
Recently had a situation were we had to up our burn farm graphics from 3700 to older 4000 ($300 second hand market) due to its added t-ram.
While its working now, Im thinking to future proof the farm with even better 4200 but they are more $$$.
Also, has any run single proc CPU on there burn farm?
- Brian
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| Hi,
Im contemplating the use of an add in graphics card so that Flame can kick renders to it while continuing unabated. This would hopefully negate the need for a burn farm.
Has any one run tests of this nature, comparisons etc...?
Recently had a situation were we had to up our burn farm graphics from 3700 to older 4000 ($300 second hand market) due to its added t-ram.
While its working now, Im thinking to future proof the farm with even better 4200 but they are more $$$.
Also, has any run single proc CPU on there burn farm?
- Brian
Technologist...
i.e., Purveyor of the ironic"
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October 30, 2014, 3:05 pm
Burn poll,
local rendering negating the need for a burn farm? |
| posted by Dan Young on Oct. 30, 2014, 6:05 p.m. (2 days ago) |
| I'll bite - lots of my clients are going this way and it's been working very well. Mostly dual 6000 or dual K6000. Check with the Desk if they can run reactor with 4000s, but I doubt it. A second big GPU is about the cost of a mediocre burn node, and significantly faster round trip to the operator. Also, significant power savings not running mad pizza boxes. I have never seen a single proc burn node but if it's got a good GPU I don't see why not, providing there is good connectivity to the machines. I'd suggest stopping investment into burn nodes and have for almost a year now with great success. I'd be interested to hear arguments and cases to the contrary, though. DY On Oct 30, 2014 2:16 PM, "Brian Krusic" < brian@krusic.com> wrote: Hi,
Im contemplating the use of an add in graphics card so that Flame can kick renders to it while continuing unabated. This would hopefully negate the need for a burn farm.
Has any one run tests of this nature, comparisons etc...?
Recently had a situation were we had to up our burn farm graphics from 3700 to older 4000 ($300 second hand market) due to its added t-ram.
While its working now, Im thinking to future proof the farm with even better 4200 but they are more $$$.
Also, has any run single proc CPU on there burn farm?
- Brian
Technologist...
i.e., Purveyor of the ironic"
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| I'll bite - lots of my clients are going this way and it's been working very well. Mostly dual 6000 or dual K6000. Check with the Desk if they can run reactor with 4000s, but I doubt it. A second big GPU is about the cost of a mediocre burn node, and significantly faster round trip to the operator. Also, significant power savings not running mad pizza boxes. I have never seen a single proc burn node but if it's got a good GPU I don't see why not, providing there is good connectivity to the machines. I'd suggest stopping investment into burn nodes and have for almost a year now with great success. I'd be interested to hear arguments and cases to the contrary, though. DY On Oct 30, 2014 2:16 PM, "Brian Krusic" < brian@krusic.com> wrote: Hi,
Im contemplating the use of an add in graphics card so that Flame can kick renders to it while continuing unabated. This would hopefully negate the need for a burn farm.
Has any one run tests of this nature, comparisons etc...?
Recently had a situation were we had to up our burn farm graphics from 3700 to older 4000 ($300 second hand market) due to its added t-ram.
While its working now, Im thinking to future proof the farm with even better 4200 but they are more $$$.
Also, has any run single proc CPU on there burn farm?
- Brian
Technologist...
i.e., Purveyor of the ironic"
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October 31, 2014, 4:25 am
Quicktime file is locked by user (Win7/Isilon) |
| posted by Fabrice Altman on Oct. 31, 2014, 7:25 a.m. (1 day ago) |
| Hi, Am I right to assume that when a QuickTime movie (.mov) stored on a server is opened by a Win7 user in QT player or RV, that file can never be moved/renamed etc… ? Is there something that can be done about that at the server level (Isilon)? We have very little issues with file locks these days, apart from QuickTimes (and Excel). Cheers, F. | |
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October 31, 2014, 7:51 am
Font Management |
| posted by Phil Scherer on Oct. 31, 2014, 10:51 a.m. (1 day ago) |
| Hi All, I'm looking for suggestions for a font server that will work on PCs and Macs, works with a render farm and Adobe CC. What do you guys use for serving fonts to your artists, designers, editors and animators? Thanks. | |
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October 31, 2014, 11:15 am
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| I'd wanted to tell you an UDP joke but I'm not sure if you would get it.
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October 31, 2014, 4:45 pm
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November 3, 2014, 8:25 am
RHEL 6.6/CentOS 6.6 vs Hyper-V 2012R2 |
| posted by Jean-Francois Panisset on Nov. 3, 2014, 11:25 a.m. (1 day ago) |
| An upgrade from CentOS 6.5 to 6.6 killed DNS for a guest VM on top of Hyper-V 2012R2. A bit of digging turned up that the kernel in 6.6 supports TCP Offload on Hyper-V:
and that seemed to be messing with DNS UDP packets. Turning off TCP offloading makes things work again. The underlying physical NIC is a Myricom 10GbE.
Still trying to figure out the "best" way to disable TCP Offload for CentOS 6.6 guests...
JF
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| An upgrade from CentOS 6.5 to 6.6 killed DNS for a guest VM on top of Hyper-V 2012R2. A bit of digging turned up that the kernel in 6.6 supports TCP Offload on Hyper-V:
and that seemed to be messing with DNS UDP packets. Turning off TCP offloading makes things work again. The underlying physical NIC is a Myricom 10GbE.
Still trying to figure out the "best" way to disable TCP Offload for CentOS 6.6 guests...
JF
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November 4, 2014, 6:30 am
Open Source CMDB + rack diagram |
| posted by Fatima Mojaddidy on Nov. 4, 2014, 9:30 a.m. (1 day ago) |
| Hi all,
It's been a while since I've posted anything here. I am looking for an Open Source CMDB that also has a feature to generate rack and network diagrams. The following link lists some of the Open Source CMDBs out there: http://linuxaria.com/article/6-cmdb-open-source
I have not been able to find one that can also generate rack and network diagrams. If you know of an open source tool or combination of tools, please let me know.
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It's been a while since I've posted anything here. I am looking for an Open Source CMDB that also has a feature to generate rack and network diagrams. The following link lists some of the Open Source CMDBs out there: http://linuxaria.com/article/6-cmdb-open-source
I have not been able to find one that can also generate rack and network diagrams. If you know of an open source tool or combination of tools, please let me know.
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November 4, 2014, 9:00 am
LTO Archiving and MAMs |
| posted by Jathavan Sriram on Nov. 4, 2014, noon (1 day ago) |
| Hi there,
I was wondering what software/solution everyone is using in
their facilities to archive data to LTO? (Not backup) Our facility and my
predecessor started out with simply two LTO-5 drives, manual
rsync writing to LTFS format and no real database to conquer the
data. Now I have to find a good solution for this legacy horror
that can actually scale well. The hard facts:- 220 LTO-5 tapes written in LTFS,
no real MAM or database behind it.
- We have budget to buy a Tape
Library - probably a Quantum Scalar i80
- Production Storage is a SAN
running on Quantum StorNext
The requirements:The solution needs to have a functionality to
“import/read” said 220 LTFS tapes and index them
into its database Needs to work with Tape Libraries Needs to run on Linux Should be able to connect to MAMs like CatDV Some sort of Web browser based interface for
triggering restore process and browsing the entire archive Nice to have: Solution should continue using
LTFS
What we
have tested so far:1) StorageDNA: - Works on LTFS
- Importing legacy LTFS tapes is
possible but very limited and a bit buggy
- Not much control to organize your
archive
- Is Browser based
- Restore and Archival can be
triggered in browser
Things
we are considering:2) Archiware
3) ??? I would love to hear
your input on this. Maybe you are very fond of a solution you
know about or are using at your facilty. Thank you Jatha | |
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I was wondering what software/solution everyone is using in
their facilities to archive data to LTO? (Not backup) Our facility and my
predecessor started out with simply two LTO-5 drives, manual
rsync writing to LTFS format and no real database to conquer the
data. Now I have to find a good solution for this legacy horror
that can actually scale well. The hard facts:- 220 LTO-5 tapes written in LTFS,
no real MAM or database behind it.
- We have budget to buy a Tape
Library - probably a Quantum Scalar i80
- Production Storage is a SAN
running on Quantum StorNext
The requirements:The solution needs to have a functionality to
“import/read” said 220 LTFS tapes and index them
into its database Needs to work with Tape Libraries Needs to run on Linux Should be able to connect to MAMs like CatDV Some sort of Web browser based interface for
triggering restore process and browsing the entire archive Nice to have: Solution should continue using
LTFS
What we
have tested so far:1) StorageDNA: - Works on LTFS
- Importing legacy LTFS tapes is
possible but very limited and a bit buggy
- Not much control to organize your
archive
- Is Browser based
- Restore and Archival can be
triggered in browser
Things
we are considering:2) Archiware
3) ??? I would love to hear
your input on this. Maybe you are very fond of a solution you
know about or are using at your facilty. Thank you Jatha | |
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November 4, 2014, 9:40 am
Dell NX400 NAS? |
| posted by Jean-Francois Panisset on Nov. 4, 2014, 12:40 p.m. (1 day ago) |
| Has anyone played around with / deployed a Dell PowerVault NX400 NAS?
I know this isn't the type of high performance / high capacity / highly scalable storage we normally discuss here, but what I'm looking for is a "install and forget" NAS for general administrative data (accounting, HR,...). And since those folks are mostly on Windows, a Server 2012R2 based box seems like it would be reasonably "plug and play" (famous last words...).
Interested in any horror stories, or alternatives that don't require me to actually learn anything new since I'm very lazy for stuff that doesn't really interest me.
JF
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I know this isn't the type of high performance / high capacity / highly scalable storage we normally discuss here, but what I'm looking for is a "install and forget" NAS for general administrative data (accounting, HR,...). And since those folks are mostly on Windows, a Server 2012R2 based box seems like it would be reasonably "plug and play" (famous last words...).
Interested in any horror stories, or alternatives that don't require me to actually learn anything new since I'm very lazy for stuff that doesn't really interest me.
JF
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November 4, 2014, 11:50 am
LTO Archiving and MAMs |
| posted by Bobby Jain on Nov. 4, 2014, 2:50 p.m. (1 day ago) |
| - Browser based management - Backup jobs can span multiple tapes - Works with libraries
Usage was simple enough, within the management interface, you mount a share from you NAS, and create a backup job. I believe it buffers to its internal RAID, so the stream to the tape is uninterrupted. One thing I did not like, was that the internal RAID was RAID0, and that's where the DB for your jobs is kept. I thought it was a heck of a design flaw, but they said it can be changed on order, so not a deal breaker.
We have also been thinking about Spectra Logic's tape libraries, but it does not come with backup software. We wanted a package deal, and wanted to avoid either vendor pointing blame at the other if there was a problem.
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| - Browser based management - Backup jobs can span multiple tapes - Works with libraries
Usage was simple enough, within the management interface, you mount a share from you NAS, and create a backup job. I believe it buffers to its internal RAID, so the stream to the tape is uninterrupted. One thing I did not like, was that the internal RAID was RAID0, and that's where the DB for your jobs is kept. I thought it was a heck of a design flaw, but they said it can be changed on order, so not a deal breaker.
We have also been thinking about Spectra Logic's tape libraries, but it does not come with backup software. We wanted a package deal, and wanted to avoid either vendor pointing blame at the other if there was a problem.
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November 5, 2014, 1:55 am
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| G'day!
The next round of the BBC Television Centre selloff is underway:
http://www2.ppauctions.com/auction.php?thisPage=15&id=119&perPage=50&sort=2&search=&cat=all
Highlights include:
HP server racks (including a couple still packaged and unused currently
selling for 10 each!):
http://www2.ppauctions.com/auction.php?search=server+rack&refresh=0.5&perPage=50&sort=2&id=119
And pallet loads of APC UPSs:
http://www2.ppauctions.com/auction.php?search=ups&refresh=0.5&perPage=20&sort=2&id=119
Shane.
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November 5, 2014, 9:05 am
Job Posting in LA |
| posted by Gary Mundell on Nov. 5, 2014, 12:05 p.m. (1 day ago) |
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Posted on behalf of one of our Los Angeles based clients.
Job Description
We are a 24x7 post production facility specializing in online
editorial, tape and file based mastering and quality control. Currently,
we are looking to fill a full-time Python/Web developer position for
our mission critical in-house intranet application. We desire motivated
individuals who have strong work ethics with an aptitude to grow and
learn.......
If you are interested please send an email to jobs@southpawtech.com and we'll forward the complete job description and contact information. Cheers,
Gary
Southpaw Technology - TACTIC
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Posted on behalf of one of our Los Angeles based clients.
Job Description
We are a 24x7 post production facility specializing in online
editorial, tape and file based mastering and quality control. Currently,
we are looking to fill a full-time Python/Web developer position for
our mission critical in-house intranet application. We desire motivated
individuals who have strong work ethics with an aptitude to grow and
learn.......
If you are interested please send an email to jobs@southpawtech.com and we'll forward the complete job description and contact information. Cheers,
Gary
Southpaw Technology - TACTIC
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November 5, 2014, 10:30 am
ClearCubes tips and tricks |
| posted by Brian Krusic on Nov. 5, 2014, 1:30 p.m. (1 day ago) |
| Hi all,
I am now finally starting to eval 2 of the ClearCubs models, there host cards as well as the set top boxes being ones that does 1920 and one that does 2560.
Im doing local testing meaning LAN, not WAN so as to familiarize myself with these units.
However Im noticing a tad bit lag, so would any one have some settings of importance that I should look at?
Thanks in advance,
- Brian
Technologist...
i.e., Purveyor of the ironic"
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| Hi all,
I am now finally starting to eval 2 of the ClearCubs models, there host cards as well as the set top boxes being ones that does 1920 and one that does 2560.
Im doing local testing meaning LAN, not WAN so as to familiarize myself with these units.
However Im noticing a tad bit lag, so would any one have some settings of importance that I should look at?
Thanks in advance,
- Brian
Technologist...
i.e., Purveyor of the ironic"
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November 5, 2014, 1:35 pm
Online vendor experience...? |
| posted by Doug Meyer on Nov. 5, 2014, 4:35 p.m. (1 day ago) |
| Anyone ordered from criticalupgrades.com ?
Good/bad/ugly?
I'm looking for drive sleds for a Dell T630. Looks like they have them but I am cautious as a lot of the CPU's and memory they list as "for the T630" aren't actually compatible with that chipset.
Doug
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Good/bad/ugly?
I'm looking for drive sleds for a Dell T630. Looks like they have them but I am cautious as a lot of the CPU's and memory they list as "for the T630" aren't actually compatible with that chipset.
Doug
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November 5, 2014, 2:15 pm
OT - Scale model hookup? |
| posted by Brian Krusic on Nov. 5, 2014, 5:15 p.m. (1 day ago) |
| Ola fellow hoobysists,
Im posting this hoping that some one has a bro deal, or knows of a bro deal on Model Factory Hiro Formula 1 full detail kits.
Id prefer 1/12 but 1/24 is totally do able.
Although Ive never seen an MFH in the flesh, they seem to top Tamiya in build quality and detail.
- Brian
Technologist...
i.e., Purveyor of the ironic"
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| Ola fellow hoobysists,
Im posting this hoping that some one has a bro deal, or knows of a bro deal on Model Factory Hiro Formula 1 full detail kits.
Id prefer 1/12 but 1/24 is totally do able.
Although Ive never seen an MFH in the flesh, they seem to top Tamiya in build quality and detail.
- Brian
Technologist...
i.e., Purveyor of the ironic"
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November 6, 2014, 7:10 am
DaVinci Resolve Corrupted Frames While Scrubbing |
| posted by William Sandler on Nov. 6, 2014, 10:10 a.m. (1 day ago) |
| While scrubbing in DaVinci Resolve 11, we're seeing the kind of corruption in the picture below on random frames. The odd things is, if we go back and scrub the same set of frames, the corruption is on a different frame than the previous scrub. (For instance, on scrub 1, frame 49 is corrupted. On scrub 2, frame 49 is fine but 50 is corrupted. On scrub 3, frame 49 is once again corrupted).
-We've tried a different computer, a different OS, and a different storage medium. -We sent the files to BlackMagic and when they scrub it, they don't have this corruption and sent us a video proving it. -This doesn't make sense to me because we have tried multiple computers. -We don't see the corruption when we import the project into After Effects.
Ideas?
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| While scrubbing in DaVinci Resolve 11, we're seeing the kind of corruption in the picture below on random frames. The odd things is, if we go back and scrub the same set of frames, the corruption is on a different frame than the previous scrub. (For instance, on scrub 1, frame 49 is corrupted. On scrub 2, frame 49 is fine but 50 is corrupted. On scrub 3, frame 49 is once again corrupted).
-We've tried a different computer, a different OS, and a different storage medium. -We sent the files to BlackMagic and when they scrub it, they don't have this corruption and sent us a video proving it. -This doesn't make sense to me because we have tried multiple computers. -We don't see the corruption when we import the project into After Effects.
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November 6, 2014, 10:25 am
Blast from the past...errr, present |
| posted by Doug Meyer on Nov. 6, 2014, 1:25 p.m. (1 day ago) |
| This just showed up from Pixel Farm, for our network license server.
I thought we were past this? Physical dongles?
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| This just showed up from Pixel Farm, for our network license server.
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November 6, 2014, 10:43 am
Looking for a HVAC contractor in LA |
| posted by Chris Peariso on Nov. 6, 2014, 1:43 p.m. (1 day ago) |
| Does anyone know of a GOOD HVAC company in LA that has experience with server rooms? Thanks for the help. -c | |
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