WOL and render farms

April 23, 2012, 12:20 pm

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By Michael Oliver -

I have been toying with utilizing WOL in conjunction with our render farm / workstations. ?I have been monitoring usage and it seems that we often have machines sitting idle over the weekend for a period of time after heavy renders complete. ?The idea is this:

Implement a policy where machines sleep/turnoff/hibernate after a set time period. ?

If the render farm manager notices it needs a certain number of machines, it pauses the job, sends WOL magic packets to the machines it needs, and then resumes the job once those machines come online. ?Once the render is complete and the period of time elapses again the machines go back to their sleep/off/hibernate state.

Anyone else play around with this? ?Can you think of any cons?

I know this would mess with the uptime stats everyone brags about but I would rather brag about my power bill ;)

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Michael Oliver
mcoliver@gmail.com
858.336.1438

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Fiber connection in Santa Monica

April 23, 2012, 12:45 pm

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By Anonymous -

Who are you guys using?

What kinds of speeds?

I am investigating a move to Santa Monica.

-Anthony

squidnet software

April 23, 2012, 2:00 pm

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By Michael Oliver -

so following my WOL email I just sent I started doing some research and came across squidnet software. ?Just spoke with the owner Ralph Alvarez and their 2012 roadmap is looking strong.

$1,800 for a permanent unlimited core site license

http://www.squidnetsoftware.com/overview.html

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Michael Oliver
mcoliver@gmail.com

858.336.1438

TACTIC asset management and tracking

April 23, 2012, 6:00 pm

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By Joerg Mohnen -

Hello Syser's

Haven't posted in a while. But have been watching posts daily....I
have been perusing this web site for a few days now and familiarizing
myself with its potential.

http://www.southpawtech.com/

Wondering if anyone has the inside on this and how it compares to
Temerity or Shotgun or Alienbrain!? Anyone using it in production??

I hear its the shite

Jorg_LA (310) 404-1046

Arista webinar for Media & Entertainment Thursday April 26 at 10 AM.

April 23, 2012, 7:20 pm

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By Warren Belkin -

Arista Networks would like to invite you attend a webinar entitled "Accelerating Media and Entertainment Workflows in the Data Center" on Thursday, April 26 at 10 AM.  Please see invitation below.  Thanks.

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I would like to invite you to join us for a live webinar "Accelerating Media and Entertainment Workflows in the Data Center." Thursday, April 26, 2012 10:00a.m.-11:00a.m. PST (GMT -8) Duration: 1 Hour Register Now http://www.aristanetworks.com/accelerating-media-and-entertainment-workflows Movie pre- and post-production is increasingly benefiting from deploying architectures developed for High Performance Computing (HPC) applications within the data center. Almost every aspect of production, including VFX and transcoding, are benefiting from more cost-effective acceleration of the development and delivery of content to market by improvements in the data center. This Webinar will focus on these changes, challenges, and advantages for media and entertainment production!  Speakers from iStreamPlanet and Whiskytree will present their case study results. Attendees of this Webinar will also learn about:

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April 24, 2012, 6:00 am

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By Bill Heiden -

Who hasn't?

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I think it was here, someone had a crazy long time on hold waiting for support... anyone? Bueller... Bueller?

InterPro

April 24, 2012, 6:50 am

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By Brian Lee -

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Hi, how can I stop getting an email every time someone makes a comment?

 

Brian Lee
[Director]

InterPro Workstations Ltd
Communications House, Staffordshire Technology Park, Stafford, ST18 0ES

Tel: 0845 241 6745
www.ipworkstations.com

brian@ipworkstations.com

:: Manufacturers of award winning workstations and render solutions ::

 

Follow us on Twitter! www.twitter.com/ipworkstations

Company registered in the UK : 07183212 | VAT Registration Number : GB 987 9262 46

 

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April 24, 2012, 8:00 am

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By Brian Lee -

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Please stop this ever increasing emails to me !!!!!!!

 

Brian Lee
[Director]

InterPro Workstations Ltd
Communications House, Staffordshire Technology Park, Stafford, ST18 0ES

Tel: 0845 241 6745
www.ipworkstations.com

brian@ipworkstations.com

:: Manufacturers of award winning workstations and render solutions ::

 

Follow us on Twitter! www.twitter.com/ipworkstations

Company registered in the UK : 07183212 | VAT Registration Number : GB 987 9262 46

 

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OT - In NYC for a bit, SoHo area, any one up for drinks, dinner

April 24, 2012, 8:00 am

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By Brian Krusic -

Sup party ppl.

Well I not so much a party, been working 12 hour dayz/7 day weeks :(

But any one wanna grad drinks/dinner?  NY is a pretty sweet town for this kind of stuff as I am finding out.  was out here 3 years ago and forgot.

- Brian

"Relax Max"

After Effects CS5 bug? 23.98fps Quicktimes

April 24, 2012, 9:20 am

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By Rob LaRose -

I submitted a bug report for this already, but I guess since CS6 is coming, they probably aren't going to pay any attention to it.  Still, it'd be nice to know if this is something others are aware of:

Exporting a quicktime movie from an AE comp at 23.98fps (project timebase 24) results in a movie that says it's 23.98fps, is 23.98fps, but the timecode track (as displayed by QT Player, FCP, etc.) are shown in base 30, with every 5th frame number skipped over.

Frame Number display in QT Player also skips every 5th frame number, so the final frame number is not an accurate count of frames in the movie.

True 24fps comps seem to be fine ? it's just when I use 23.98 / 23.976.

Anybody know what's up?  Should I focus my rage on Apple or Adobe?

--Rob

Rob LaRose systems administrator
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BlueArc/HDS user group meeting coming to LA area May 16. Topic is today's Hitachi disk announcements

April 24, 2012, 10:25 am

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By Charles Larson -

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We will be starting a Hitachi Data Systems User Group in the LA/OC/SD/Phoenix area which will include legacy BlueArc users and content.  The first meeting will be May 16^th at McCormick and Schmick’s restaurant in Irvine.  The main topic of interest will be today’s announcement of the midrange Hitachi Universal Storage disk, (replacement for the AMS) which can go behind the BlueArc head and can provide significant performance benefits (think streaming).

 

The first meeting will have mostly HDS speakers, but we want this to become a true User group dominated by user speakers.  It will include BlueArc/HNAS content as well as other HDS topics.  Meetings will alternate between Southern California and Phoenix, I’m hoping we can have some sessions in LA itself.

 

Here is some technical information on today’s announcement:

http://www.hds.com/products/storage-systems/hitachi-unified-storage-100-family.html

..and here is the toplevel Marketing announcement with some highlights:

http://www.hds.com/corporate/press-analyst-center/press-releases/2012/gl120424.html

 

Below is the invitation; if you can’t read it for whatever reason you can simply enroll here.  Hope to see plenty of SSA folks there!

 

Hitachi Data Systems Southwest Chapter User Group Meeting Wednesday, May 16, 2012 Share best practices Learn about latest updates Network with your peers It's time to meet and share best practices, talk to other Hitachi customers and network among your peers. As a Hitachi Data Systems customer, you are invited to attend the upcoming HDS Southwest Chapter User Group meeting.  The meeting will be a technically-focused forum for all users of HDS storage products.  Any customers who are looking for storage best practices such as Systems and Storage Administrators, Storage Specialists, IT Team Leads, Architects, Operations and IT Managers and decision-makers should plan to attend. We've got an informative and exciting meeting agenda planned that includes: Technical Briefing on New HNAS Architecture Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer Plus, Cool Hitachi Prizes!     <!--[if gte vml 1]><![endif]--><![if !vml]><![endif]> Register Here DATE: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 LOCATION: McCormick and Schmick's 2000 Main Street, Irvine, CA 949-756-0505 TIME: 12:00 pm - 2:30 pm Lunch served.       You can add the User Group meeting to your Outlook calendar by clicking here.

 

 

 

Regards,

 

C.D.

Charles D. “C.D.” Larson, Jr.

Senior Systems Consultant – File and Content

charles.larson@hds.com

 

Anyone Selling a pimped out z800?

April 24, 2012, 10:45 am

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By Vinit Borrison -

Looking for all options, let me know =)

Cheers!

Vinit Borrison REDLAB Toronto 416.831.7476

Our mistake is YOUR problem

April 24, 2012, 1:20 pm

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By Jonathan Solomon -

"Oklahoma city threatens to call FBI over 'renegade' Linux maker"

You may have seen this; if not, it's quite a chuckle? enjoy

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/24/tuttle_centos/

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Discuss E-Mails Digest Option

April 24, 2012, 1:40 pm

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By John Hickson -

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All,

For a period of time I was adding people to the discuss list with Digest on..

For some people this was great as we had many new users complain about getting too much e-mail.

I have recently seen that a lot of new people have difficulty joining conversations when getting digest e-mails so I have stopped doing digest by default.

If you wish to change your option, let me know directly... email: signmeup@studiosysadmins.com

Do not send e-mails to the entire group :)

 

Thank you;

John Hickson

 

SquidNet render manager

April 25, 2012, 10:50 am

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By Greg Whynott -

anyone using this or know someone who is? Any comments you can share?

I've never heard of it before till recently.

http://www.squidnetsoftware.com/index.html

-g

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April 26, 2012, 8:55 am

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By John Hickson -

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All,

Things were crazy at the Alacritech SSA event in NAB and we forgot to hold the draw for the new IPAD 3...

The draw was done and a winner has been announced.... and the winner is....

Lance Kimes from Rhythm & Hues Studios..

Congratulations Lance!!!

 

 

Aspera Connect client - firewall ports & On Demand

April 26, 2012, 10:20 am

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By Fabrice Altman -

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Hi,

 

Looking at Aspera Connect client for us to use for our data deliveries (probably using On Demand).

In the docs I’m seeing that port 33001 needs to be open for TCP and UDP.

 

Does that not cause acceptance of Aspera for technical or security reasons from your clients?

So I’m guessing you always have to do a test download with the guys on the other side to check that all is OK?

Also do people use the On demand (AWS) service ?

 

Cheers,

F.

Reading Mac Disks on Windows

April 26, 2012, 10:35 am

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By Craig Van Horn -

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I’m wondering if anyone has a better solution than MacDrive to ingest Mac discs using windows machines? We are running HyperFS and don’t really want to hang a Mac off the SAN along with the costs for the workstation, Fiber card etc. just to ingest footage and media from suppliers.

 

Many thanks in advance.

 

Craig Van Horne

Test - Not getting any mails from studiosysadmin

April 27, 2012, 8:00 am

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By Fabrice Altman -

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Hey, nothing from @studiosysadmin in my Inbox since Wednesday... ? Weird...

While waiting to be added to the Foundry forums - python/nuke question

April 27, 2012, 8:50 am

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By Ian Haskin -

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I'm new to Python and I'm coming to it from PHP.  Can anyone shed light on why the following snippit from my menu.py doesn't work to add custom entries to the menu in Nuke?

 

gizmoDir = 'Q:/Nuke_Extras/Plugins/Gizmos'

gizmoList = os.listdir( gizmoDir )

for g in gizmoList:

    nuke.menu( 'Nodes' ).addCommand( 'Gizmos/' + os.path.splitext(g)[0], lambda: nuke.createNode(g) )

 

 

I get proper menu names for each gizmo from " 'Gizmos/' + os.path.splitext(g)[0] ", but "nuke.createNode(g)" always inserts the last gizmo from "gizmoList"...  So I get a menu group that launches the same gizmo from multiple menu entries.

 

I realize that this is a pretty basic thing to hit the list with, but I haven't had any luck finding a solution online for what (I'm assuming) is a simple error on my part.

 

 

   Ian Haskin

   Sys-Admin, TOPIX

    ian@topixfx.com

   416-971-7711 x480

   

   www.topixfx.com