October 27, 2016, 9:20 am
Autodesk Partner/Reseller |
| posted by William Sandler on Oct. 27, 2016, 12:20 p.m. (1 day ago) |
| Anyone have a recommended Autodesk Partner/Reseller in the Northern NJ/NYC area? Autodesk informed us that our previous one is no longer an "Authorized" Partner.
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| Anyone have a recommended Autodesk Partner/Reseller in the Northern NJ/NYC area? Autodesk informed us that our previous one is no longer an "Authorized" Partner.
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October 28, 2016, 5:00 pm
Windows on HP ProLiant servers and number of logical
cores |
| posted by Jean-Francois Panisset on Oct. 28, 2016, 8 p.m. (1 day ago) |
| In particular this shows up in the %NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS% environment variable being set wrong, and the Python psutil module.
Unless you have 18 core CPUs, setting the BIOS parameter "NUMA Group Size Optimization" to "Flat" instead of "Clustered" will solve the problem. Turns out that HP has a useful PowerShell module for manipulating BIOS parameters: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/product-catalog/detail/pip.5440657.html#but unfortunately that particular param is not exposed through that module. JF | |
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| In particular this shows up in the %NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS% environment variable being set wrong, and the Python psutil module.
Unless you have 18 core CPUs, setting the BIOS parameter "NUMA Group Size Optimization" to "Flat" instead of "Clustered" will solve the problem. Turns out that HP has a useful PowerShell module for manipulating BIOS parameters: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/product-catalog/detail/pip.5440657.html#but unfortunately that particular param is not exposed through that module. JF | |
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October 31, 2016, 8:30 am
Octane/Redshift |
| posted by Dan Young on Oct. 31, 2016, 11:30 a.m. (1 day ago) |
| Is anyone using this in a farmed scenario?
What form factor are you using for it? Kind of an annoying hardware profile we're finding... DY | |
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November 2, 2016, 2:30 am
HP RGS |
| posted by on Nov. 2, 2016, 5:30 a.m. |
| Hallopeeps!
Now they're boasting 60 FPS and native Wacom support, it's looking more tempting.
Anyone using this in place of say, Terradici?
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| Hallopeeps!
Now they're boasting 60 FPS and native Wacom support, it's looking more tempting.
Anyone using this in place of say, Terradici?
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November 2, 2016, 9:05 am
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November 2, 2016, 3:25 pm
Adobe CC 2017 Released |
| posted by Brandon Lindauer on Nov. 2, 2016, 6:25 p.m. (1 day ago) |
| They announced and released CC2017 today.
(Never mind what happened to 2016!)
Ahh, Adobe release day. Heres how this day usually goes for me:
No, Im not upgrading the whole studio to new adobe versions on day zero No, Im not upgrading your machine ahead of everyone elses. I dont have the manpower for the compatibility nightmare it would cause. Why cant we upgrade now? Because adobe writes trash code! And the people packaging it are incompetent. It usually takes them a few months to un-break everything that theyve broken today
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| They announced and released CC2017 today.
(Never mind what happened to 2016!)
Ahh, Adobe release day. Heres how this day usually goes for me:
No, Im not upgrading the whole studio to new adobe versions on day zero No, Im not upgrading your machine ahead of everyone elses. I dont have the manpower for the compatibility nightmare it would cause. Why cant we upgrade now? Because adobe writes trash code! And the people packaging it are incompetent. It usually takes them a few months to un-break everything that theyve broken today
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November 2, 2016, 3:54 pm
Sys Admin Support in Toronto |
| posted by Rupanshi Anand on Nov. 2, 2016, 6:54 p.m. (1 day ago) |
| Looking for a System Administration Support for one of our clients- (VFX & Animation industry) near Downtown Toronto. Mail your resume at jashat@nuvollo.com | |
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November 4, 2016, 2:15 pm
OT: The worse tech writer job in history? |
| posted by Jean-Francois Panisset on Nov. 4, 2016, 5:15 p.m. (2 days ago) |
| I just want a compiler that my guys can legally use to build a few non-Python things... (we don't qualify for Visual Studio Community).
JF
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| I just want a compiler that my guys can legally use to build a few non-Python things... (we don't qualify for Visual Studio Community).
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November 6, 2016, 5:55 pm
System Administrator - Iloura Sydney |
| posted by on Nov. 6, 2016, 8:55 p.m. (1 day ago) |
| Iloura Sydney is currently looking for a Systems administrator to provide 1st and 2nd line IT support to our production staff and artists. This is a great opportunity to join a great team of animation and VFX artists motivated by creativity and technical
innovation, producing a great variety of interesting work including Mad Max Fury, Ghostbusters and Deep Water Horizon and currently in production on several new international feature film projects.
Please send your CV and cover letter via email to:
sydrecruit@iloura.com.au with the subject line:
FIRST NAME_SURNAME – Job title. | |
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innovation, producing a great variety of interesting work including Mad Max Fury, Ghostbusters and Deep Water Horizon and currently in production on several new international feature film projects.
Please send your CV and cover letter via email to:
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November 7, 2016, 9:50 am
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| Anyone have any recommendations on cable installers in Montreal?
shawn
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November 8, 2016, 6:40 am
3D Monitor under Linux - 3D Vision Linux |
| posted by Mathieu Arseneault on Nov. 8, 2016, 9:40 a.m. (2 days ago) |
| Hi, Anyone with good insight on using 3D Monitor under linux (CentOS7). Passive monitors are out of the picture unfortunately, that leaves actives as the only option. We are trying to avoid using quadro video cards, which seems it is impossible. I'd like some insights if anyone is in that situation. Thanks Mathieu | |
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November 8, 2016, 5:35 pm
Senior Sys-Admin position - Cutting Edge
Brisbane/Sydney |
| posted by on Nov. 8, 2016, 8:35 p.m. (2 days ago) |
| Senior VFX Systems Administrator
We are currently seeking an enthusiastic and talented Senior VFX Systems Administrator to join us in either our Brisbane or Sydney studios.
Position Overview As a VFX Systems Administrator, you will be part of a team designing, implementing, maintaining and troubleshooting a multi-site, mixed Linux / MacOS environment for our content creation crew. You will work alongside our experienced systems administrators, and interact with Production, our pipeline developers and senior VFX technical directors.
Responsibilities Design and develop integrated hardware, software and network systems for use in post-production workflows with specific focus on the high-performance requirements of VFX production for features and television. Serve as a technical resource to end users of Production and IT technology within Cutting Edge, installing equipment, diagnosing faults and performing routine maintenance and repair. Translating security guidelines into actionable plans, assisting with and overseeing the implementation of those plans. Researching and costing of technology updates to improve speed, reliability and security of current systems.
Skills and Experience 3+ years experience as a senior IT systems administrator. Extensive knowledge of Linux and Mac operating systems Experience in BASH and Python scripting
Extensive working knowledge of Active Directory and LDAP Demonstrated experience in IT deployment, automation and configuration management systems, both workstations and servers (PXE, Kickstart, Preseed, Puppet, etc) Knowledge of techniques, materials and equipment used in the VFX industry Experience in supporting complex networking environments; complex DNS, firewalling, routing, VLANs, switch and stacking management, VPNs, secure wireless access, etc. Demonstrated ability to identify faults and find solutions with IT equipment Qualifications in Information Technology, Electronics, Engineering and/or Media Production Ability to work within a geographically diverse team environment. Demonstrated experience in technical systems security and policy compliance (eg ISO27001)
Apply Now This is a great opportunity to be a part of a technology savvy team with an interesting array of high profile entertainment projects. Please forward your CV to hr@cuttingedge.com.au. Only short listed applicants will be contacted.
Rangi Sutton| VFX Supervisor
CUTTINGEDGE | Brisbane Australia
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We are currently seeking an enthusiastic and talented Senior VFX Systems Administrator to join us in either our Brisbane or Sydney studios.
Position Overview As a VFX Systems Administrator, you will be part of a team designing, implementing, maintaining and troubleshooting a multi-site, mixed Linux / MacOS environment for our content creation crew. You will work alongside our experienced systems administrators, and interact with Production, our pipeline developers and senior VFX technical directors.
Responsibilities Design and develop integrated hardware, software and network systems for use in post-production workflows with specific focus on the high-performance requirements of VFX production for features and television. Serve as a technical resource to end users of Production and IT technology within Cutting Edge, installing equipment, diagnosing faults and performing routine maintenance and repair. Translating security guidelines into actionable plans, assisting with and overseeing the implementation of those plans. Researching and costing of technology updates to improve speed, reliability and security of current systems.
Skills and Experience 3+ years experience as a senior IT systems administrator. Extensive knowledge of Linux and Mac operating systems Experience in BASH and Python scripting
Extensive working knowledge of Active Directory and LDAP Demonstrated experience in IT deployment, automation and configuration management systems, both workstations and servers (PXE, Kickstart, Preseed, Puppet, etc) Knowledge of techniques, materials and equipment used in the VFX industry Experience in supporting complex networking environments; complex DNS, firewalling, routing, VLANs, switch and stacking management, VPNs, secure wireless access, etc. Demonstrated ability to identify faults and find solutions with IT equipment Qualifications in Information Technology, Electronics, Engineering and/or Media Production Ability to work within a geographically diverse team environment. Demonstrated experience in technical systems security and policy compliance (eg ISO27001)
Apply Now This is a great opportunity to be a part of a technology savvy team with an interesting array of high profile entertainment projects. Please forward your CV to hr@cuttingedge.com.au. Only short listed applicants will be contacted.
Rangi Sutton| VFX Supervisor
CUTTINGEDGE | Brisbane Australia
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November 10, 2016, 10:11 am
Recommended Workstation Filesystem? |
| posted by Mike Rochefort on Nov. 10, 2016, 1:11 p.m. |
| One of the things that I'm still very novice with is filesystems. I'm looking into transferring a workstation over to CentOS 7, and although I can get myself up and running quickly, I don't know which filesystem is best to choose: Ext 4 or XFS. Over in the Foundry's community, Ext 4 has been recommended (I always get the warning of using XFS from Mari). I've only ever used used XFS in setting up and trying things out, however. I know the general differences between the two, but for a workstaion running the following apps: Maya, Houdini, Modo, Mari, Substance, Nuke, Fusion, Redshift, RenderMan, with the following storage setup, what would you recommend? - 2x 250GB SSD
- 1x 120GB SSD
- 3x 1TB HDD (2 of which are currently software RAID0)
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- 1x 120GB SSD
- 3x 1TB HDD (2 of which are currently software RAID0)
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November 10, 2016, 10:25 am
Computer equipment rental in Iceland? |
| posted by Rob LaRose on Nov. 10, 2016, 1:25 p.m. |
| Hello friends,
We're sending an editor to Reykjavik and would prefer not to ship a monitor.
Can anyone recommend a source to rent Apple (or any displayport) computer monitors there?
Thanks!
--Rob
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| Hello friends,
We're sending an editor to Reykjavik and would prefer not to ship a monitor.
Can anyone recommend a source to rent Apple (or any displayport) computer monitors there?
Thanks!
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November 10, 2016, 3:10 pm
Sad days relived. HP buys SGI. |
| posted by Greg Whynott on Nov. 10, 2016, 6:10 p.m. (1 day ago) |
| 7 years on... Interesting choice as my understanding was HP was having some challenges. but I don't profess to understand big business. :/
-greg
PS - what about that Trump? :) I don't think it'll be as bad as people are making out but I wouldn't consider myself 'informed' with merica' politics.
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| 7 years on... Interesting choice as my understanding was HP was having some challenges. but I don't profess to understand big business. :/
-greg
PS - what about that Trump? :) I don't think it'll be as bad as people are making out but I wouldn't consider myself 'informed' with merica' politics.
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November 15, 2016, 12:50 pm
Options for high-speed long distance
data transport |
| posted by Todd Smith on Nov. 15, 2016, 3:50 p.m. (3 days ago) |
| Probably cheaper than ASA licenses for the proper bandwidth.
Todd Smith Head of Information Technology
soho vfx | 99 Atlantic Ave. Suite 303, Toronto, Ontario M6K 3J8
Yes, "old" commodity hardware saving the day. Our Cisco firewall was unable to fill the 1 gig pipe due to license (they call it hardware) limitations. Its a joke really, in 2016.
This pfsense box is a 6 interface 2630@2.4GHz with 12 cores and 96 gigs of memory. lol.. I use most of the RAM for SQUID and ClamAV.
-greg
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Todd Smith Head of Information Technology
soho vfx | 99 Atlantic Ave. Suite 303, Toronto, Ontario M6K 3J8
Yes, "old" commodity hardware saving the day. Our Cisco firewall was unable to fill the 1 gig pipe due to license (they call it hardware) limitations. Its a joke really, in 2016.
This pfsense box is a 6 interface 2630@2.4GHz with 12 cores and 96 gigs of memory. lol.. I use most of the RAM for SQUID and ClamAV.
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November 16, 2016, 10:25 am
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| Hopefully that will show up soon? Also haven't found any info on any compatibility between Tera2 and Alta devices.
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November 16, 2016, 10:50 am
Teradici "Alta" Zero Clients,
now with UHD support: |
| posted by Saker Klippsten on Nov. 16, 2016, 1:50 p.m. (2 days ago) |
| http://connect.teradici.com/blog/meet-alta-the-newest-pcoip-zero-client
"We expect our OEM partners to begin shipping Alta PCoIP Zero Clients alongside their existing Tera2-based Zero Clients early next year, both in traditional Zero Client form factors and as wireless-enabled laptops."
From what I heard it should be compatible connecting to a tera2 hostcard but there is no new UHD4k Hostcards. It will be using the PCoiP Access Software to do that.When I spoke to them at Siggraph they were currently working on making it multi-threaded. Right now it uses a single core to do the encoding. I think it has a max frame rate of 30ftps which is why they were working on making it multithreaded to get it up to 60+ which is a requirement for us.
If it works.. it will be nice not needing a hostcard. Which will allow for new form-factors. :) You will not get BIOS access etc.. since its software based it will be more akin to RDP access. when the system is fully up on the OS Level.
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| http://connect.teradici.com/blog/meet-alta-the-newest-pcoip-zero-client
"We expect our OEM partners to begin shipping Alta PCoIP Zero Clients alongside their existing Tera2-based Zero Clients early next year, both in traditional Zero Client form factors and as wireless-enabled laptops."
From what I heard it should be compatible connecting to a tera2 hostcard but there is no new UHD4k Hostcards. It will be using the PCoiP Access Software to do that.When I spoke to them at Siggraph they were currently working on making it multi-threaded. Right now it uses a single core to do the encoding. I think it has a max frame rate of 30ftps which is why they were working on making it multithreaded to get it up to 60+ which is a requirement for us.
If it works.. it will be nice not needing a hostcard. Which will allow for new form-factors. :) You will not get BIOS access etc.. since its software based it will be more akin to RDP access. when the system is fully up on the OS Level.
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November 16, 2016, 2:00 pm
Broadcast monitor rentals in LA? |
| posted by Anthony Pangan on Nov. 16, 2016, 5 p.m. (2 days ago) |
| Hi all,
Does anyone have suggestions for renting broadcast monitors in LA? Specifically the 55" Sony PVMX550. Thanks in advanced! | |
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