Brocade Lucasfilm Success Story

ILM‘s network infrastructure operates on Gigabit Ethernet switches from Brocade, and Peter Hricak sits down for a short promotional piece talking about their network infrastructure.  As CG visual effects became a prominent piece of the company,the network became an increasingly critical part of the puzzle.  The video has a few details of their setup, and many shots of their massive rendering clusters and server rooms.

See the video after the break.

YouTube – Brocade Lucasfilm Success Story.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .