reception @ Panasas booth 1107 - now! | ||||||
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see you there.. please check in when you arrive :) -JOHN |
reception @ Panasas booth 1107 - now! | ||||||
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see you there.. please check in when you arrive :) -JOHN |
Meeting at The Edison | ||||||
posted by Brian Krusic on Aug. 12, 2015, 10 a.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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Hi all, It was a real pleasure and treat to finally meet you. Some were faces from the past while others were new. I really enjoyed it. I was speaking with said vendor about having a more granular pricing structure. They replied with the fact that even though M&E has more visibility, sewer and water treatment design is bigger business. I took that as people would rather watch NetFlix then take a s%$t but in the end, the latter is more necessary and larger. I personally would rather watch NetFlix as well. At any rate, CC has royalty free rendering, Maxon has cheap render lics, something like $200 for 100 or perhaps the other way around. I think if Foundry and Vray were to come up with a hourly/daily/weekly render license pricing, that would be cool. At any rate, many are at Siggraph this week so enjoy and be safe. Man, traffic down there is brutal. - Brian A good day is when no one shows up... and you don't have to go anywhere." |
Timeline based stereo dailies | ||||||
posted by Rory Falloon on Aug. 14, 2015, 9:25 a.m. (2 days ago) | ||||||
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Hi all, Quick question- what are people using these days in their respective studios for dailies review/playback? Trying to find the the best fit for moving away from Speedgrade NX as the licenses are no longer available, but yet to find something that ticks all boxes. Nuke Studio seems like it might be the one, but we're struggling with playback issues and UI bugs, not seen in other programs... Being able to, on the fly, and during playback, build out a timeline with all versions/cuts in a linear fashion is key to the workflow. What options are there? Thanks. |
Job Opening, USC | ||||||
posted by Will McCown on Aug. 14, 2015, 9:41 a.m. (2 days ago) | ||||||
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The USC Shoah Foundation is looking for a Senior Sys-admin/Systems Programmer to join the support group for the USC Shoah Foundation and |
StudioSysAdmins-Discuss Digest, Vol 71, Issue 12 | ||||||
posted by Terry Dale on Aug. 14, 2015, 11:10 a.m. (2 days ago) | ||||||
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Yes please. 16TB SSD Drive | ||||||
posted by Saker Klippsten on Aug. 15, 2015, 11:50 a.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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Would be nice sitting in some of our flames , 4k playback and artists boxes :) -s |
1080P60 Video encoder | ||||||
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Does anyone have a need to send a full HD monitor screen over Ip to decode it and view remotely? This product from Antrica does a really good job and can be decoded with a browser or VLC remotely. |
Storage solution for Houdini Sims | ||||||
posted by Jamie Darville on Aug. 17, 2015, 5:16 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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Hi
Just wondering what other VFX shops are using for their Houdini simulations? We currently have it segregated as a different server from our compositors, matte painting etc, as I was told when Houdini FX artists used our main file server it caused issues for the other artists. Before I started here a OmniOS storage server was set up, but it is on old hardware and has been giving a lot of issues. We are looking for something new and curious how other studios deal with Houdini. We are thinking one of these options, interested to hear what my fellow VFX sys admins use, and if they use one of the below solutions how happy they are with it.
Red Hat GlusterFS (maybe Ceph or Lustre also) Quantum StorNext NetApp/EMC Oracle ZFS Storage Nexenta
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WPKG deployment - Client Service hangs after moving
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posted by Fabrice Altman on Aug. 18, 2015, 7:30 a.m. | ||||||
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Hi,
Just upgraded the server were WPKG share lives to 2012R3 (same server name, path etc..) and now the WPKGSrv.exe client service hangs when trying to roll out the simplest .bat file (echo hello). For testing, the share has read/write permissions to everyone & disabled domain firewall. The logs do not show me anything wrong. Service is able to check for installed packages OK but when it reaches the point of running this new test package, it just hangs. It feels like a security block but apart from read/write permissions and Firewall, I cannot see/find what the issue could be.
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WPKG deployment - Client Service hangs after
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Share permissions and file/directory permissions (ACLs) are set separately, you're aware? You'll want to check that you've opened both. The problem may be that the deployment client is calling the files without presenting proper credentials--especially if it is running as a service. Maybe set the service to use a domain account to run under? ______________ Jeremy M. Lang it4vfx On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 4:26 AM, Fabrice Altman <fabrice@studioaka.co.uk> wrote:
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How to get acquired by Seagate | ||||||
posted by Jean-Francois Panisset on Aug. 19, 2015, 12:45 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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Just become the next Flame storage solution. After Xyratex, now DotHill |
Verifying LTO6+LTFS tapes | ||||||
posted by Ian Haskin on Aug. 19, 2015, 3:20 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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I'm using LTO6+LTFS to back up project finals after using LTO4+TAR for years. As a commercial shop, we go back to these archives all the time. (LTO6+LTFS is still in the testing phase.) Short of copying everything back off the tape and comparing it to the original source, (what I'm doing up to now) does anyone have any clever methods of verifying the data written to an LTO6+LTFS tape? Speed's not the issue, reliability is. TIA Ian@Topix |
Useful Web-tools -> Post your favs | ||||||
posted by Ian Haskin on Aug. 19, 2015, 3:25 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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Regex testing and dev: http://regexr.com/<-- love |
ACM Siggraph 2015 Proceedings | ||||||
posted by on Aug. 20, 2015, 4:30 a.m. | ||||||
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For everyone interested ... you can get this years ACM Siggraph
Proceedings for free to download this week: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2809654 cheers jatha ... and for everyone who loves cats... https://instagram.com/elfie_gimli/ -- /////////////////////////// /////////////////////////// //////////////////// JATHAVAN SRIRAM HARVEST /DIGITAL AGRICULTURE GMBH Alter
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Mac Pro; 4 core vs 6 core AE/C4D rendering | ||||||
posted by Brian Krusic on Aug. 20, 2015, 9:40 a.m. | ||||||
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Hi, Has any one by chanced benched marked After Effects & Cinema 4D rendering on both 4 core and 6 core Mac Pros? My thoughts being old, were higher frequency/lower core count as AE doest seem all that hip on several cores. As for Cinema, well Im just happy it works. What travesty of warez there lic server is but thats got nothing to do with the merits of there warez. Thanks in advance, - Brian A good day is when no one shows up... and you don't have to go anywhere." |
Remote command execution? | ||||||
posted by Rob LaRose on Aug. 20, 2015, 6:05 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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Hi everybody! The big dreamers are asking yet again about remote command execution so they can ask servers and workstations a bunch of personal questions from time to time. Targets are a mix of linux, windows, osx. What are yall using to do this? We use(d) the Nagios product a bit, but wondering what the current hot-sauce is. Rob To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe |
All Flash Arrays for production data? | ||||||
posted by Jean-Francois Panisset on Aug. 21, 2015, 5 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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Has anyone seriously contemplated / experimented with All Flash Arrays for storing production data? Kaminario is claiming $1 per "effective" GB (so presumably after inline compression / dedup) for their K2 array, and perhaps foolishly promises: So that comes awfully close to Dan's "100TB for $100K" requirement, but with a lot more than 100K IOPS. OK, so minor detail, it doesn't include a NAS head.http://kaminario.com/blog/press-releases/kaminario-cuts-flash-storage-costs-less-1gb-introduction-k2-v5-5/ "In addition, Kaminario customers will continue to be guaranteed effective capacity; if a customer is unable to store the capacity that is guaranteed, they will receive additional hardware at no expense to expand their system and fulfill that guarantee." |
Tool to visualize Spanning Tree | ||||||
posted by on Aug. 22, 2015, 5 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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Does anyone know a tool to visualize the state of spanning tree in a
network? On 22.08.2015 19:54, Will Rosecrans
wrote:
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Infrastructure Sysadmin Opening at Blue Sky Studios,
Greenwich, CT | ||||||
posted by Andrew Siegel on Aug. 24, 2015, 10:30 a.m. | ||||||
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We're looking for an infrastructure sysadmin at Blue Sky Studios in Greenwich, CT. The job posting can be found here: http://blueskystudios.com/working-here/jobs (Click on the "Infrastructure Administrator" listing.) If anyone is interested, or knows anyone who might be interested, please apply or pass this notice on to them. I can answer questions about this position via private email. Thanks! To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe |
Sandisk X300S 256G High Failure Rate | ||||||
posted by Viet Nguyen on Aug. 24, 2015, 3:20 p.m. | ||||||
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Anyone else use Sandisk X300S 256G SSDs? I'm seeing an alarming number of failures lately. |