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 computer graphics programmer and news junky that's been working in the field for the last 15 years. He's responsible for visualizations generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, ytnef, mullion support in ParaView, and VizWorld.com.