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I also forgot to mention; at a well established shop everything is automated & integrated. most workstations will have a network home partition, which means th

I also forgot to mention; at a well established shop everything is automated & integrated. most workstations will have a network home partition, which means that your home directory is everwhere you log in. Its easier and miles faster to write something out to an NFS share than it is to use HTTP/database Ten gig switches get saturated without trying too hard (Place I worked pulled a constant 15 gigabytes a second from storage. bursting to 35. thats bytes, not bits) Render farms have been using cgroups for many years. you'll start to worry about scheduling rate of tasks. The only things that are virtualised are things like the intranet and the wiki. everything else is on real steel rendernodes are big, there are loads of them, but never enough. They are treated like cattle. There are large data pipes. however if you deal with marvel, you'll not have internet access at your desk, it'll be through some horrid remote desktop system. If you're lucky you might get one way copy and paste. Fluid sims have caches that are in the order of 10s of terabytes

jkrp 11y ago
Curious about Marvel, any more info? I find it interesting, am wondering how difficult a rd would be and such.
- KaiserPro 11y ago
  So Marvel are wonderfully paranoid about footage leaks. It didn't help that someone got drunk on a plane and left wolverine on an unencrypted laptop. (which wasn't a VFX person because it had sound, titles and non VFX shots) They specify that there must be an air gap between "work side" and the internet. This means that there must be two/three networks, A workstation network which has no internet, a Data IO network for sending and receiving assets from other companies and finally the remote desktop server for internet access. Other things like USB disks are disabled on all non dataIO workstations. I've heard that some places were being forced to disallow email access as well. However I think that was successfully argued against. The hardest part is not having access to download libraries.

jkrp 11y ago

Curious about Marvel, any more info? I find it interesting, am wondering how difficult a rd would be and such.

KaiserPro 11y ago
So Marvel are wonderfully paranoid about footage leaks. It didn't help that someone got drunk on a plane and left wolverine on an unencrypted laptop. (which wasn't a VFX person because it had sound, titles and non VFX shots) They specify that there must be an air gap between "work side" and the internet. This means that there must be two/three networks, A workstation network which has no internet, a Data IO network for sending and receiving assets from other companies and finally the remote desktop server for internet access. Other things like USB disks are disabled on all non dataIO workstations. I've heard that some places were being forced to disallow email access as well. However I think that was successfully argued against. The hardest part is not having access to download libraries.