Angstrom Microsystems, an AMD Opteron processor specialist company, is announcing the deployment of Titan64 SuperBlade™ rendering servers at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), a Lucasfilm Ltd. company. These blade servers are powered by AMD Opteron processors to provide maximum performance and ease the growth of the rendering server farm. ILM is using the Titan64 SuperBlade servers to enable significantly more complex and faster generation of movie visual effects.
A Titan64 SuperBlade rack maximizes processing density by packing 65 blade servers with space for 10 switches and other networking gear into one rack. Quality is a hallmark of Angstrom Microsystems; its blade servers are designed to minimize failures by, among other design features, blade cooling without the use of small, fragile fans and blowers.
“We have been very pleased by the quality of the Titan64 SuperBlade servers and Angstrom’s exceptional service,” said Martin Weaver, Manager of Systems Engineering at Industrial Light & Magic. “Angstrom’s engineering focus and ability to deliver quality AMD Opteron systems have enabled us to focus on our core business – creating industry leading visual effects.”
“Angstrom’s unique engineering capabilities have made rendering highly reliable and enabled rapid deployment of our Titan64 SuperBlade render farm,” said Eric Bermender, Systems R&D Engineer at ILM.
The Angstrom Titan64 product line takes advantage of the AMD Opteron processor’s 64-bit computing power. With the AMD Opteron, Angstrom enables faster special effects generation and a smooth transition from older 32-bit software.
“The AMD Opteron processor enables high performance computing for both 32-bit and 64-bit applications. Our engineers have removed many of the failure points that typically occur in large scale deployments of our AMD Opteron processor enabled blades,” said Lalit Jain, CEO of Angstrom Microsystems, “Angstrom is proud to announce its selection by the premiere visual effects house, Industrial Light & Magic.”
“Angstrom Microsystems has once again shown their leadership in the special effects rendering market with the addition of ILM as their client,” said Ben Williams, director of Server and Workstation Marketing at AMD. “Angstrom provides AMD Opteron customers a unique combination of quality, service and engineering that enables highly scalable custom blade server solutions.”
