Isilon NAB 2012 Update - You're Invited - Please RSVP

April 9, 2012, 1:20 pm

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By Kate Metzger -

When: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 11:30 AM-12:30 PM. Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Where: Second Floor Conference Room - Renaissance Hotel 3400 Paradise Road Las Vegas, NV 89169

YOU'RE INVITED...

Please join Integrated Media Technologies, Inc. (IMT) and Isilon, a division of EMC, for an exclusive NAB2012 update on Isilon's new product announcements and roadmap. Come enjoy lunch and learn how Isilon makes data management simple with Isilon Scale-Out NAS on Tuesday, April 17th at 11:30am at the Renaissance Hotel, Las Vegas. IMT will also be screening 3D footage from the anticipated release of Marvel's The Avengers 3D and Titanic 3D compliments of Stereo D. It's time for an inside look at some of NAB2012's premier technology.

Guest Speakers

Rob Peglar: Chief Technology Officer, Americas at EMC Isilon - Rob is a 34-year industry veteran and published author, he leads efforts in technology and architecture with strategic customers and partners throughout the Western Hemisphere, and helps to define future EMC offering portfolios incorporating Isilon, including business and technology requirements.

Bryan Gauna: Director of Technology at Stereo D, a division of Deluxe Corporation - Bryan will discuss how his company went from no data to over 1 petabyte in 1.5 years.

Space is limited. Register here:

http://imtnab2012isilon.eventbrite.com

Unfamiliar with Isilon Systems?

Isilon Systems, a division of EMC, is the global leader in scale-out storage. Isilon's Scale-out Storage Platform, powered by the OneFS? operating system, combines a robust suite of management applications and enterprise-class hardware to deliver meaningful and sustainable productivity enhancements.

Giveaway - We will raffle off an Apple iPad during this event. Register now to enter your name in the drawing. The winner must be present at the event to receive the prize.

Please take a moment to register. Space is limited for this event. If you have any questions please contact Kate Metzger, IMT's Marketing Coordinator, at kate@imtglobalinc.com or call 818.761.9770.

We look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas!

Sincerely,

Integrated Media Technologies, Inc. (IMT)

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Atempo NAB 2012 Update - You're Invited - Please RSVP

April 9, 2012, 1:20 pm

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By Kate Metzger -

When: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 1:00 PM-2:00 PM. Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Where: Second Floor Conference Room Renaissance Hotel 3400 Paradise Road Las Vegas, NV 89169

YOU'RE INVITED...

Please join Integrated Media Technologies, Inc. (IMT) and Atempo ? an ASG company - for an exclusive NAB2012 update on Atempo Digital Archive and Atempo Time Navigator software. Come enjoy lunch and learn how to improve your archival workflow on Wednesday, April 18th at 1:00pm at the Renaissance Hotel, Las Vegas. It's time for an inside look at some of NAB2012's premier technology.

Space is limited.

Unfamiliar with Atempo?

Atempo enables organizations to protect, manage, archive, and recover digital information simply and effectively, across any infrastructure, on any platform, over any period of time. Atempo?s portfolio of integrated software solutions simplifies the management of data throughout its entire lifecycle. Atempo serves thousands of customers with the help of partners like Integrated Media Technologies, Inc.

Giveaway - We will raffle off an Apple iPad during this event. Register now to enter your name in the drawing. The winner must be present at the event to receive the prize.

Please take a moment to register. Space is limited for this event. If you have any questions please contact Kate Metzger, IMT's Marketing Coordinator, at kate@imtglobalinc.com or call 818.761.9770.

We look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas!

Sincerely,

Integrated Media Technologies, Inc. (IMT)

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Maya 2011 Linux UV Editor Glitches

April 9, 2012, 4:00 pm

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By Viet Nguyen -

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">

I'm getting reports of the UV Editor having graphical issues on Maya 2011 on FC14 that appear to only happen on large models. Apparently Maya 8.5 on the same model and machine works fine. Any one else see something link this?

I'm using xorg options I found somewhere else on this list:
Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
    Option         "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"
    Option         "DamageEvents" "1"
    Option         "RenderAccel" "1"
    Option         "DisableGLXRootClipping" "1"
    Option         "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
    Option         "TripleBuffer" "0"
    Option         "CIOverlay" "Off"
    Option         "Overlay" "On"
    Option         "InitializeWindowBackingPixmaps" "1"
    Option         "IndirectMemoryAccess" "1"
    Option         "MultisampleCompatibility" "1"
    Option         "TwinView" "1"
    Option         "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
    Option         "metamodes" "DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, DFP-2: nvidia-auto-select +1920+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

And I'm running the 280.13 version of the NVIDIA drivers. I tried running the latest and had the same problems.
--

Viet Nguyen <viet@entityfx.com>
   Systems Engineer, Entity FX
   p: 310.899.9779
   f: 310.899.3113

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Progeniq's Accelerates Animation and VFX Rendering Speeds by 400%-800%:

April 10, 2012, 9:15 am

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By Chris Giggie -

to follow up on this, I had a quick chat with Darran last week...after my initial cynicism I was very impressed: looks like a great concept if you're using renderman or vray

mentalray is owned by nvidia now, and that seemed to hinder developing their solution

it's a card you plug into the PCI slot, already programmed...no need to reprogram unless there is an update/patch etc. it handles the raytrace calculations & feeds the output back into the CPU, which doesn't deal with any raytracing at all & is freed up to handle other tasks. thus much faster rendertimes

there is no need to "analyze your pipeline" or any of that funky info I got, from either the sales guy or their website(?)

it also has a very low power req & heat output

Darran's notes:

We're a small team of engineers with a $0 marketing budget :P so we may have been particularly bad at getting word around on our stuff, and we're just working with a few targeted clients right now as well, since we're still early in the roll-out stages of our solution.

- Uses FPGA processors on a PCIe board as an offload engine for raytracing - There's nothing fancy algorithmically, it's basically a highly optimized standard tree traversal algorithm engine on the FPGA. It's all the details on optimization of that implementation and partitioning it between the CPU/FPGA that is novel in our case. - The tree-traversal stage is done on the FPGA, while the downstream intersection / shader stages are done on the CPU. - Doing it this way, the final results are still computed on the CPU, hence the output is all identical to a CPU-only run; and additionally there's no need to load the entire scene primitive objects onto the on-board FPGA memory (only the tree is needed). - The accelerated engine is exposed for use via a simple C/C++ library call, and we integrate this with software renderer packages; essentially it's a plug-in to the renderers. - At the hardware side it's a low-profile PCIe x4 lane, half-length single-slot 25W board, hence it fits into just about all rack-servers that have PCI slots.

We've done alot of work on GPUs ourselves before arriving at this FPGA+CPU based solution. One large problem is that GPU processor architectures don't suit traversal type algorithms well, things need to be shoe-horned into place, there's a need to load all the scene objects onto onboard memory to gain any performance (limiting scene size scalability and running into other IO bound issues), and then comes the power consumption issue at 200W-300W which limits scalability in deployment at the renderfarm, etc.
Using 3delight as an example of a Renderman-compliant software renderer package, since the Renderboost engine is available integrated with 3delight today:
The user will need to do only one thing which is to add in a single line into the RIB file that instructs 3delight to use our external .dll or .so file for all raytracing
This works with any 3delight software release already in use and on the market today, there's no need for a special compile binary, etc.

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Progeniq's Accelerates Animation and VFX Rendering Speeds by 400%-800%:

April 10, 2012, 11:45 am

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By Chris Giggie -

he said they had to figure out a selling price; the studio in india they were working with didn't want to buy anything so they worked out a lease agreement with them

From: "Todd Smith" <todd@sohovfx.com>
To: discuss@studiosysadmins.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 12:41:31 PM
Subject: Re: [SSA-Discuss] Fwd: Progeniq's Accelerates Animation and VFX Rendering Speeds by 400%-800%:

On 2012-04-10, at 12:11 PM, Chris Giggie wrote:

to follow up on this, I had a quick chat with Darran last week...after my initial cynicism I was very impressed: looks like a great concept if you're using renderman or vray

Great to hear. Now does anyone have a ballpark figure of cost per unit?

We couldn't use it in our current farm, but I would love to be able to speed up some look tests.

Cheers,

Todd Smith

Head of Information Technology

soho vfx |

99 Atlantic Ave. Suite 303, Toronto, Ontario M6K 3J8

office: (416) 516-7863 fax: (416) 516-9682 web: sohovfx.com

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Drinks & Hors D'Oeuvres with Arista & GPL in NAB booth #SL13713

April 10, 2012, 1:25 pm

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By Warren Belkin -

Please stop by the Arista booth #SL13713 on Monday, April 16 at 4PM to speak with Jason Blum, CTO of GPL Technologies, and enjoy some food and drink in a casual setting.

You might also win a new iPad with our passport card below. Thanks - hope to see you at NAB 2012.

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by our Booth #SL13713 and find out how the Arista family of Ethernet switches bring unparalleled speed and resiliency to computer networking, enabling you to handle big data from modern workflows ? faster and more simply than ever before.
On Monday, April 16 at 4pm Jason Blum, CTO of GPL Technologies, talks in our booth about the advantages of 10Gb ethernet over fibre channel for moving big data through the production pipeline.
Enjoy his talk with some drinks and hors d'oeuvres in Booth #SL13713, download invite.
Learn about:

Media technologies causing an explosion in big data.
Key technology innovations that are dramatically changing the economics of 10Gb networking

Operational considerations in choosing the right network foundation
The future for fibre channel vs. Ethernet
Win a NEW iPad!
While at the show, please visit us and our partner booths (Aspera, Avere, EMC Isilon, Nexenta, Sanmina-SCI, and Solarflare) to seek answers to a few questions on our passport card to be eligible to win the new iPad in the daily drawing.
Complete this passport card and return it to Arista Networks, Booth #SL13713 for a chance to win.
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 <td style="text-align:center"><a href="http://www.aristanetworks.rsvp1.com/s1bb2d7y8Luw" target="_blank"><img alt="Download your passport card and be eligible to win a new iPad!" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/prod-images.genius.com/1076/69046/iPad%20for%20Deb.jpg" style="float:left;width:121px;min-height:146px" height="146" width="121"></a></td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
 </tr><tr><td colspan="2">We look forward to seeing you at the show. Don?t forget to download your <a href="http://www.aristanetworks.rsvp1.com/s1bb2d7y8Luw" target="_blank">passport card</a>.&nbsp; And please feel free to reply to me, or call <a href="tel:408-547-5501" value="+14085475501" target="_blank">408-547-5501</a> regarding any questions that you may have.Best Regards,Deb

Best Regards,

Warren D. Belkin

Director, Sales

Media & Entertainment

Arista Networks

Leader in Cloud Networking www.aristanetworks.com

warren@aristanetworks.com

949-290-6859 (cell)

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BlueArc - Dr.D Zenoss Zenpack

April 10, 2012, 4:05 pm

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By Mike Owen -

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone on this list was involved in the development of the Dr.D Zenpack for monitoring BlueArc via Zenoss.

http://community.zenoss.org/docs/DOC-7457

I'm interested to know if Dr.D (or anyone else) would support updating this Zenpack to support Zenoss v3.x as it currently only supports up to Zenoss v2.x

Thanks,

Mike

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NVidia security woes (linux) pre-295.40

April 11, 2012, 6:55 am

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By Dan Young -

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3109

Joy!

MPC NYC

Dan Young | Systems Engineer
434 Broadway, 9th Floor, New York City, 10013
T 212.915.3120 |

C 347.334.0132

www.moving-picture.com

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SSA Meet & Greet w/Avere Update

April 11, 2012, 7:15 am

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By John Hickson -

All…

Some new info on the Avere after-hours party during the NAB show in Vegas next week:

Event: Avere After-Hours Party and MacBook Air Giveaway at NAB

Date: Wednesday, April 18th
Time: 6 pm (after show hours)

Location: Booth# SL12717 at the Avere Systems NAB booth.

Summary: Avere will be hosting an NAB after-hours party at the Avere Systems' Booth (SL12717) on Wednesday, April 18th, after the Exhibit floor has closed. Enjoy a beer and a bite and network with the Avere folks and other SSA members--and enter a drawing for a MacBook Air!

-John

John Hickson, Systems Architect
Head of Systems and Rendering

p: 416.682.5255 | c: 416.660.5059 | f: 416.682.5209
Arc Productions Ltd. | 230 Richmond Street East | Toronto, ON M5A 1P4
www.arcproductions.com

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Make NFS behave like SMB?

April 11, 2012, 1:35 pm

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By Rob LaRose -

I've inherited an NFS fileserver, and I may be wishing for it to be something it's not, but would love somebody to tell me I'm just holding it wrong?

OSX 10.6 client connecting to an NFS share server:/path/to/share/

The share has chomd g+s (sgid.. Some call it the sticky bit, some say that's a whole different thing) applied, so new files and dirs created on the share get the group of the parent directory. Fine.

Got a umask of 007 on the Mac, so new files and dirs are created 770 / 660. Fine.

When I create files or folders on the share through Finder or apps, the umask is honored and the sticky group is perpetuated. Fine.

When I copy files or folders to the share through Finder, the umask is not honored as if I were creating a new file.. It just keeps whatever permissions are on the source file. This includes having NO sticky group for directories, so further subfolders & files under the dir get the user's default group instead of the parent directory's group.

Somebody tell me I'm overlooking something glaring and obvious here?

--Rob

Rob LaRose systems administrator
imaginary forces | 530 west 25th street | new york | p 646.486.6868 | www.imaginaryforces.com

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Raleigh studios in Toulouse, France.

April 12, 2012, 3:20 am

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By Johan Boye -

Hi,

I don't write so much to this ML, so I would like to introduce myself first : I'm a senior GNU/Linux sysadmin with experience on various system administration (Linux RHEL/SuSE/Debian/LSF, Solaris, AIX, a little bit less on MacOS), web technologies (Apache, LAMP, PHP, CMS...), storage (SAN FC/NAS - NetAPP/EMC ), visualization (VMware, AIX visualization, Xen), some databases (Oracle, MySQL) and some SAP stuff (ECC 6, BI 7, Solution Manager).

Unfortunately, I'm not working in a SFX company since they are pretty rare in France. Well, I could move out to join one since it's a part of my dream to work as an IT Infrastructure Manager in this kind of company. From what I've heard, Raleigh studios is planning to buy some studios in my city (sorry, I don't have any sources in English). Anyone knows Raleigh studios here ? I'm wondering if they will just have studios for shooting or also need some IT guys like me ? Is Raleigh Studios a serious company ? Can't find any info on Wikipedia. On LinkedIn, I found a Susan Z, Raleigh studios HR, should I contact her directly?

Well, if a 'serious' entertainment company decided to establish a new studio in my city and they look for IT guys, I don't want miss it ! Any advices/feedback is welcome !

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open source simple video asset management system?

April 12, 2012, 3:50 am

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By Julian Firminger -

I have a need for a simple MAM but don’t have much budget. Wondering if anyone out there might know of a simple MAM that can handle QT playback in a console and have a db to do the following:

Enterable ID number

filename

File tags (simple text, relating to the file only (not TC),

Rating system

That’s it really. Any additional functionality would be just a bonus.

Win or Linux, will be on a box SAN attached to a StorNext volume with 3-4000 DVCProHD QT files.

Any suggestions welcome.

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xfs meta data on dedicated disk(s)

April 12, 2012, 8:10 am

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By Brian Krusic -

Hi all,

Wondering if any one has noticed practical improvements in using a dedicated drive(s) (mirrored for example as meta data is critical data) on an XFS volume?

- Brian

"Relax Max"

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Maya 2011 vs Maya 2012

April 12, 2012, 9:45 am

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By Tommy Asbee -

Hey All,

As I am about to renew my yearly maintenance for Maya I was wondering....

How many studios who have both Maya 2012 and Maya 2011 are using 2012 vs 2011. My artists here think that the 2012 release was continually bugging and a piece of shiat, we are still using 2011.

Just curious :)

-Thanks! Tommy

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off topic but i had to.... silly support.

April 12, 2012, 12:20 pm

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By Greg Whynott -

So I've been having a problem with my backup software...

I installed the single mailbox recovery and search plugin for Exchange server. We run the backup service on linux. I've been using this product off and on for about 10 years. Never did the server have a desktop, we always controlled it remotely with the administrative GUI.
There may off been the odd instance where we had to use the GUI local to the server, but i can't recall.

So about 2 WEEKS ago I opened a ticket, as every time i clicked on the Exchange cluster icon from within the backup software, the entire backup service would take a crap and die, without a single log being generated. dead, done and gone, except for the stale PID file...
you would have to log into the server and restart the services. any jobs which were running were unrecoverable.

After 30 emails and hours of webx's I started to ask for escalation,
as obviously this fells tool set had be exhausted. He says "we have to try a few more things..." EYE VAY.. ok ok.. he wants me to
install a desktop onto the server and run the GUI from there...

what? really... ok ok.. whatever....

so i install 'openbox' desktop. a nice light desktop. I fire off the GUI and as expected, no change. the services die as soon as you click on the cluster icon. I relay this to support. I also re-iterate i'd like escalation, as this is preventing me from backing up our environment. its been over a week! lord I hope the FS stays stable and snapshots remain a win.

the response i get back is "you are not running a complaint or supported config, install ubuntu-desktop as that is what we support, till you do we can not support you nor escalate your ticket. we never tested our product on openbox.

WTF

it took them 2 weeks to say that?
I installed the desktop by request. Why after 10 years of running a backup server without a desktop do i need one now all of a sudden?
I can't find any documents covering supported "unix desktops"...
(the product started out without a gui from what I recall)
what the heck does a desktop have to do with a service running in daemon mode? Do I need libX11.so.6 to do Exchange server backups or what?

sigh.... I use to have nothing but good things to say about this product, they just lost 38.6 points.

k i'm done venting...

-g

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Intel's latest ssd/pci-card

April 12, 2012, 5:40 pm

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By Michael Oliver -

Intel 910 series. ?Yes please:

http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/intel-launches-910-series-800gb-pcie-ssd-with-2gbs-read-speeds-20120412

--
Michael Oliver
mcoliver@gmail.com
858.336.1438

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Last chance to RSVP for SSA NAB Events.

April 13, 2012, 6:30 am

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By John Hickson -

All,

NAB 2012 in Las Vegas will be next week. I know many of you will be there – looking forward to seeing everyone. If you have not RSVP’s for the SSA Meet and Greets please do so J

<![if !supportLists]>1) <![endif]>SSA Meet & Greet w/Alacritech

Tuesday April 17^th, 4:30-7:30 at the Renaissance Hotel (Room TBD) – I will send out an e-mail with the room # when I have it)

Enter to win a new iPad.

<![if !supportLists]>2) <![endif]>SSA Meet & Greet w/Avere

Wednesday April 18^th, 6:00-7:30 at Booth SL12717

Enter to win an Apple MacBook Air

-John