December 8, 2014, 6:00 pm
[MASSMAIL] Re: Studios 100% on AWS - WAS: Photos
from Sydney Meetup |
posted by Gautham Krishnamurti on Dec. 8, 2014, 9 p.m. (1 day ago) |
| It will be interest to see what happens to cloud after the Sony incident.
Todd Prives wrote:
> Just a quick note that we are ramping up heavily and focusing on rendering
> as a solution on Google Cloud Platform. Zync will only be one of several
> types of solutions, if anyone is interested in working with what we are
> building please drop me a line off list.
>> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Jean-Francois Panisset > wrote:
>>> The cool thing is that you can now connect to an Amazon Workstation
>> instance with a ZeroClient. The not so cool thing is that for now, the
>> largest Amazon Workstation instance you can get has 8GB, which isn't
>> exactly going to make Maya, Houdini or Nuke very happy.
>>>> JF
>>>> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 6:44 PM, Andrew Galka >> wrote:
>>>>> Hi
>>>>>>>>> So after watching the Youtube video it kind of seems like they were
>>> presenting an almost naive hypothetical new studio and how they would do it
>>> all on AWS. Has anyone actually (or know of anyone who have) delivered a
>>> project pretty much 100% via AWS infrastructure?
>>>>>>>>> Andrew
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ------------------------------
>>> *From:* studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@studiosysadmins.com >> studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@studiosysadmins.com> on behalf of Kim
>>> Pearce >>> *Sent:* Friday, December 5, 2014 7:04 PM
>>> *To:* studiosysadmins-discuss@studiosysadmins.com
>>> *Subject:* [SSA-Discuss] Photos from Sydney Meetup
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>> Photos from the December meetup in Sydney are now up here
>>> http://www.studiosysadmins.com/photologue/gallery/2014-12-ssa-sydney-deluxe/
>>>>>> Thanks to everyone who came along, to Martin from StormFX for the beers
>>> and to Dylan, Michael and everyone at Deluxe for being such gracious hosts.
>>>>>> A big thank you to Peter Galloway from AWS for braving the crazy
>>> weather and crazier sysadmins to come and give a great presentation.
>>>>>> Peter has sent through a couple of links for some neat cloud rendering
>>> stuff:
>>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm4sPe1nLjU
>>>>>> Slides here:
>>>>>>>>> http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/med304-the-future-of-rendering-a-complete-vfx-studio-in-the-aws-cloud-aws-reinvent-2014?qid=a703f3f1-39e4-4028-8ee3-9c6197422f25&v=default&b=&from_search=2
>>>>>> ...and some talk on AWS from Billy Connolly
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIQETrFC_SQ
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| It will be interest to see what happens to cloud after the Sony incident.
Todd Prives wrote:
> Just a quick note that we are ramping up heavily and focusing on rendering
> as a solution on Google Cloud Platform. Zync will only be one of several
> types of solutions, if anyone is interested in working with what we are
> building please drop me a line off list.
>> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Jean-Francois Panisset > wrote:
>>> The cool thing is that you can now connect to an Amazon Workstation
>> instance with a ZeroClient. The not so cool thing is that for now, the
>> largest Amazon Workstation instance you can get has 8GB, which isn't
>> exactly going to make Maya, Houdini or Nuke very happy.
>>>> JF
>>>> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 6:44 PM, Andrew Galka >> wrote:
>>>>> Hi
>>>>>>>>> So after watching the Youtube video it kind of seems like they were
>>> presenting an almost naive hypothetical new studio and how they would do it
>>> all on AWS. Has anyone actually (or know of anyone who have) delivered a
>>> project pretty much 100% via AWS infrastructure?
>>>>>>>>> Andrew
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ------------------------------
>>> *From:* studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@studiosysadmins.com >> studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@studiosysadmins.com> on behalf of Kim
>>> Pearce >>> *Sent:* Friday, December 5, 2014 7:04 PM
>>> *To:* studiosysadmins-discuss@studiosysadmins.com
>>> *Subject:* [SSA-Discuss] Photos from Sydney Meetup
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>> Photos from the December meetup in Sydney are now up here
>>> http://www.studiosysadmins.com/photologue/gallery/2014-12-ssa-sydney-deluxe/
>>>>>> Thanks to everyone who came along, to Martin from StormFX for the beers
>>> and to Dylan, Michael and everyone at Deluxe for being such gracious hosts.
>>>>>> A big thank you to Peter Galloway from AWS for braving the crazy
>>> weather and crazier sysadmins to come and give a great presentation.
>>>>>> Peter has sent through a couple of links for some neat cloud rendering
>>> stuff:
>>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm4sPe1nLjU
>>>>>> Slides here:
>>>>>>>>> http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/med304-the-future-of-rendering-a-complete-vfx-studio-in-the-aws-cloud-aws-reinvent-2014?qid=a703f3f1-39e4-4028-8ee3-9c6197422f25&v=default&b=&from_search=2
>>>>>> ...and some talk on AWS from Billy Connolly
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIQETrFC_SQ
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December 8, 2014, 7:10 pm
AWS Technical Session in Sydney - Some Time in Feb? |
posted by Kim Pearce on Dec. 8, 2014, 10:10 p.m. (1 day ago) |
| Anyone interested in attending an interactive technical session with AWS in Sydney, February next year? Storm FX are gauging interest, from Gaelle ->
Hi Kim,
After a very lively discussion at the recent Studio SysAdmins get together, AWS has offered to host a special session on their services and technology offerings to those interested.
This session will focus on solutions for Media & Entertainment and will be designed to be an interactive session, led by the participants.
This is your time to have your questions, business and technical discussed and answered.
To make this happen, we need a minimum of 15 attendees. The session will take place early to mid February 2015. It will be an afternoon session with pizza and beer provided by the folks at Amazon. The location will be their Sydney offices.
Please fill up this survey byDecember 19so we can give the folks at AWS the time coordinate all their resources. Feel free to share this survey with your friends or colleagues who might be interested
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| Anyone interested in attending an interactive technical session with AWS in Sydney, February next year? Storm FX are gauging interest, from Gaelle ->
Hi Kim,
After a very lively discussion at the recent Studio SysAdmins get together, AWS has offered to host a special session on their services and technology offerings to those interested.
This session will focus on solutions for Media & Entertainment and will be designed to be an interactive session, led by the participants.
This is your time to have your questions, business and technical discussed and answered.
To make this happen, we need a minimum of 15 attendees. The session will take place early to mid February 2015. It will be an afternoon session with pizza and beer provided by the folks at Amazon. The location will be their Sydney offices.
Please fill up this survey byDecember 19so we can give the folks at AWS the time coordinate all their resources. Feel free to share this survey with your friends or colleagues who might be interested
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December 8, 2014, 7:25 pm
AWS Technical Session in Sydney - Some Time in
Feb? |
posted by Jack Horrocks on Dec. 8, 2014, 10:25 p.m. (1 day ago) |
| I'm in
Sent from my iPhone Anyone interested in attending an interactive technical session with AWS in Sydney, February next year? Storm FX are gauging interest, from Gaelle ->
Hi Kim,
After a very lively discussion at the recent Studio SysAdmins get together, AWS has offered to host a special session on their services and technology offerings to those interested.
This session will focus on solutions for Media & Entertainment and will be designed to be an interactive session, led by the participants.
This is your time to have your questions, business and technical discussed and answered.
To make this happen, we need a minimum of 15 attendees. The session will take place early to mid February 2015. It will be an afternoon session with pizza and beer provided by the folks at Amazon. The location will be their Sydney offices.
Please fill up this survey by December 19 so we can give the folks at AWS the time coordinate all their resources. Feel free to share this survey with your friends or colleagues who might be interested
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| I'm in
Sent from my iPhone Anyone interested in attending an interactive technical session with AWS in Sydney, February next year? Storm FX are gauging interest, from Gaelle ->
Hi Kim,
After a very lively discussion at the recent Studio SysAdmins get together, AWS has offered to host a special session on their services and technology offerings to those interested.
This session will focus on solutions for Media & Entertainment and will be designed to be an interactive session, led by the participants.
This is your time to have your questions, business and technical discussed and answered.
To make this happen, we need a minimum of 15 attendees. The session will take place early to mid February 2015. It will be an afternoon session with pizza and beer provided by the folks at Amazon. The location will be their Sydney offices.
Please fill up this survey by December 19 so we can give the folks at AWS the time coordinate all their resources. Feel free to share this survey with your friends or colleagues who might be interested
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December 9, 2014, 2:40 am
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December 9, 2014, 12:55 pm
AWS Technical Session in Sydney - Some Time
in Feb? |
posted by Oliver Timm on Dec. 9, 2014, 3:55 p.m. (1 day ago) |
| Yes please! Survey completed.
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December 9, 2014, 2:30 pm
DreamColor's $600 at B&H |
posted by Shawn Wallbridge on Dec. 9, 2014, 5:30 p.m. (1 day ago) |
| In case anyone is looking for some.
shawn | |
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| In case anyone is looking for some.
shawn | |
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December 11, 2014, 6:30 am
Flame artist monitor @4K |
posted by Brian Krusic on Dec. 11, 2014, 9:30 a.m. |
| Hi,
What do you all think of this as a desk side monitor for Flame;
Seems killer. - Brian
Technologist... i.e., Purveyor of the ironic"
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| Hi,
What do you all think of this as a desk side monitor for Flame;
Seems killer. - Brian
Technologist... i.e., Purveyor of the ironic"
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December 11, 2014, 1:40 pm
Exocortex Crate goes open source. |
posted by Saker Klippsten on Dec. 11, 2014, 4:40 p.m. |
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For everyone who hates Maya's built in alembic support :)
-S
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For everyone who hates Maya's built in alembic support :)
-S
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December 12, 2014, 2:30 pm
8TB drives in the wild |
posted by Doug Meyer on Dec. 12, 2014, 5:30 p.m. |
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~$265 per for costco size | |
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December 12, 2014, 6:50 pm
BPG image format |
posted by Jean-Francois Panisset on Dec. 12, 2014, 9:50 p.m. (1 day ago) |
| Could BPG replace JPEG as the "lightweight" companion to EXR for our types of applications? None of which would happen quickly of course. JF | |
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| Could BPG replace JPEG as the "lightweight" companion to EXR for our types of applications? None of which would happen quickly of course. JF | |
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December 15, 2014, 6:20 am
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December 15, 2014, 1:25 pm
AJA + Premiere CC2014.1 = runaway kernel task RAM |
posted by Rob LaRose on Dec. 15, 2014, 4:25 p.m. (1 day ago) |
| Hi folks,
I asked before when PPro 8.1 was new.. Im still seeing an annoying number of not-enough-application-memory conditions since Premiere 8.1 on my Macs with AJA devices (Kona 3Gs, ioXTs).
Anybody else seeing this, now that its been out for a while?
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| Hi folks,
I asked before when PPro 8.1 was new.. Im still seeing an annoying number of not-enough-application-memory conditions since Premiere 8.1 on my Macs with AJA devices (Kona 3Gs, ioXTs).
Anybody else seeing this, now that its been out for a while?
Rob | |
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December 15, 2014, 7:30 pm
Ubuntu + LDAP/TLS + Kerberos 5 + Samba-AD-DC |
posted by William Shortell on Dec. 15, 2014, 10:30 p.m. (1 day ago) |
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Hello All,
Any one willing to bite into this one?
On 12/15/2014 03:21 PM, James Mooney
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Apple Shake X - $299.99 from the App Store
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Hello All,
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December 16, 2014, 8:30 am
BlackMagic UltraScope... Any good? |
posted by on Dec. 16, 2014, 11:30 a.m. |
| I'm wondering if anyone has experience with the Blackmagic Ultrascope? One of our Tektronix rasterizers stopped working and the repair bill is half the cost of a new unit so I'm looking at alternatives. Are these things worth a try?
Thanks!
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| I'm wondering if anyone has experience with the Blackmagic Ultrascope? One of our Tektronix rasterizers stopped working and the repair bill is half the cost of a new unit so I'm looking at alternatives. Are these things worth a try?
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December 16, 2014, 8:45 am
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December 17, 2014, 9:50 am
External Thunderbolt GPU's on OSX |
posted by William Sandler on Dec. 17, 2014, 12:50 p.m. |
| Anyone running this setup and have any feedback? Was thinking of turning a few MBP's we have lying around into workstations by giving them an external GPU. I haven't seem many attempts at external GPU's over TB on OSX, which surprises me because the lack of CUDA on the garbage cans.
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| Anyone running this setup and have any feedback? Was thinking of turning a few MBP's we have lying around into workstations by giving them an external GPU. I haven't seem many attempts at external GPU's over TB on OSX, which surprises me because the lack of CUDA on the garbage cans.
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December 17, 2014, 10:30 am
Cold calling tactics |
posted by Brian Krusic on Dec. 17, 2014, 1:30 p.m. |
| Hi,
Ive noticed that within the past couple years ppl have been calling and claiming to have spoken to me days earlier.
Of course its a farce but I usually avoid the call or sometimes call em on it.
My advise to sales ppl on this forum; honesty is the best policy as that tactic guarantees a No, from me %100.
I realize sales is tough but guess what, making money in general is tough.
- Brian
Technologist... i.e., Purveyor of the ironic"
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| Hi,
Ive noticed that within the past couple years ppl have been calling and claiming to have spoken to me days earlier.
Of course its a farce but I usually avoid the call or sometimes call em on it.
My advise to sales ppl on this forum; honesty is the best policy as that tactic guarantees a No, from me %100.
I realize sales is tough but guess what, making money in general is tough.
- Brian
Technologist... i.e., Purveyor of the ironic"
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December 17, 2014, 11:05 am
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December 17, 2014, 2:55 pm
mentalray for maya on centos |
posted by Kym Watts on Dec. 17, 2014, 5:55 p.m. |
| Hi There, We are running into problems trying to get the licensing working with the mayatomr on out centos render nodes. running : /usr/autodesk/maya2014-x64/bin/Render -r mr -s 1 -e 1 -b 1 -v 6 /tmp/test/ball_mr.ma errors with: maya: License was not obtained License method: environment variable MAYA_LICENSE_METHOD='network' Product choice: environment variable MAYA_LICENSE='657e1' License file override: environment variable MAYA_ALT_EN is not set I know that mayabatch mode and maya software renderer work correctly, but when we try to render with mentalray it fails. we are running maya2014 sp3, on CentOS release 6.5 (Final) I know that the "/var/opt/Autodesk/Adlm/Maya2014/MayaConfig.pit" was created correctly from our licensing info. Please let me know if there is anymore information i can provide. Cheers Kym | |
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| Hi There, We are running into problems trying to get the licensing working with the mayatomr on out centos render nodes. running : /usr/autodesk/maya2014-x64/bin/Render -r mr -s 1 -e 1 -b 1 -v 6 /tmp/test/ball_mr.ma errors with: maya: License was not obtained License method: environment variable MAYA_LICENSE_METHOD='network' Product choice: environment variable MAYA_LICENSE='657e1' License file override: environment variable MAYA_ALT_EN is not set I know that mayabatch mode and maya software renderer work correctly, but when we try to render with mentalray it fails. we are running maya2014 sp3, on CentOS release 6.5 (Final) I know that the "/var/opt/Autodesk/Adlm/Maya2014/MayaConfig.pit" was created correctly from our licensing info. Please let me know if there is anymore information i can provide. Cheers Kym | |
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December 17, 2014, 5:30 pm
pydio / owncloud / others.. |
posted by Michael Oliver on Dec. 17, 2014, 8:30 p.m. |
| Anyone play around with seafile, pydio or owncloud? Any security or encryption concerns?
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