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Media & Entertainment HPC and AI reference Guide Contents I. Introduction . 5 Abstract . 5 II. Industry and Applications . 6 Applications . 6 How do we “render” an image? . 7 What is a render farm? . 7 Cloud rendering . 9 Production management software . 10 VFX Craft Groups – Journey of a frame . 11 Pre-Production . 11 Production . .12 Post Production . .13 III. How to tune the perfect solution? . 14 Solution mock-up . 14 Workstations. 16 When does it make sense to virtualise? . 17 Virtualised workstations with VMware . 18 Monitors . 19 Calibrate Display . 19 Network . 20 Isilon Leaf-spine network architecture . 21 Render farm. 22 Head node. 22 Compute nodes. 22 Extreme Density Server . 24 Storage . 25 Option_1: Dell EMC PixStor and Excelero Solution . 25 Option_2: Isilon - Home and Buffer in one . 27 Isilon Compression . 28 PowerScale Dedupe . 28 Option_3: Dell EMC Ready Solutions for HPC NFS Storage. 29 Cloud and virtualised computing . 30 Dell Technologies offers multi-cloud choices . 31 Services & software . 32 ® Intel oneAPI Rendering Toolkit . 33 Contents IV. The Future, Trends & Challenges . 36 Challenges in the industry. 37 Security and best practices . 37 Media and Entertainment – Security considerations and difficulties. 37 How can facilities work from home if there are heavy restrictions on remote access?. 39 Surely, they can use cloud . 39 V. Glossary and References . 41 Glossary . ..

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