Using Titan, rendering times at Turner Studios have measurably
decreased, while image sequences load from disk at least three times faster
than the studio's existing storage environment.fluent .

The rendering of images is a highly parallelizable activity, as each frame can be calculated independently of the others, with the main communication between processors being the upload of the initial source material, such as models and textures, and the download of the finished images.

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Using Fluent's software , engineers build
virtual prototypes and simulate the performance of proposed and
existing designs , allowing them to improve design quality while
reducing cost and speeding time to market.

The use of render farms in the entertainment industry can be viewed as one early application of grid computing .

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"BlueArc is a
core component of our long-term plan for storage., world
leader in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software and services,
announced today that its unique RSolve(TM) Remote Simulation Facility
(RSF), an online service for running FLUENT 6.com/software/rsolve/

About Fluent

Fluent is the world's largest provider of computational fluid
dynamics (CFD) software and consulting services.

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2, has expanded its high
performance computing facility to over 200 Peak Mflops, with 64 Gbytes
of memory and 1."
Another unique feature of the Fluent RSolve facility is the
ability to create and deploy application-specific design tools. Its CFD software is also available around the world through
joint ventures, partnerships, and distributors in Korea, Australia,
Brazil, China , Taiwan, the Czech Republic, Middle East, and most
European countries.

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6 Terabytes of storage. The
benefit of Fluent's RSolve service lies in its ability to provide cost
effective access to the Fluent application for CFD users who have a
periodic need to perform large computationally intensive simulations. It is a vital part of the
computer-aided engineering (CAE) process for companies around the
world and is deployed in nearly every manufacturing industry.

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BlueArc's Titan SiliconServer is backed by a unique architecture that
allows customers to scale their storage systems far beyond any other
servers available on the market today.

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FLUENT(R) is a registered trademark of Fluent Inc.

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BlueArc Corporation, provider of the
world's highest performance, most scalable network storage systems, today
announced that Turner Studios, the production and post-production arm for
Turner Entertainment Networks, has selected BlueArc's Titan SiliconServer
to dramatically accelerate the CGI creation process and foster
collaboration among its team of artists.H.

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----Fluent Inc.

The reason for this is that advances in computer power are absorbed by increased computation in order to meet demands to achieve state-of-the-art image quality, while the hour-per-frame figure arises from the demands of production timescales.

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The company's
headquarters are in San Jose, California with UK operations based in
Bracknell, England.

Fluent Increases the Price Performance Ratio of its Remote Simulation Facility by a Factor of 6x; ''Provides the most cost effective CFD solution in the Market

"The Fluent RSF now becomes an outstanding price/performance value
option for customers wanting to do large scale CFD simulations on
short notice. FLUENT
is used extensively in the Motor Racing industry worldwide by the vast
majority of race teams.

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BlueArc's SiliconServer
storage systems enable organizations to maximize performance and reduce
operating costs through the movement of software functions into
programmable hardware.bluearc.

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More information on BlueArc is available on the
Internet at www. Turner Studios provides facilities and resources worldwide for
all of the Turner Entertainment Networks. The headache and upfront cost of deploying your own
cluster has been fully absorbed by Fluent Inc.

A render farm is a computer cluster to render computer generated imagery (CGI), typically for film and television visual effects.

Some common features of a queue managers are: re-prioritization of the queue, management of software licenses, and algorithms to best optimize throughput based on various types of hardware in the farm.

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Source: Wikipedia

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Titan enables us to
easily scale capacity as we grow.

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Fluent's corporate
headquarters are located in Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA, with offices
in Belgium, England, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, China and
Sweden.

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About BlueArc

BlueArc Corporation changes the economics of network storage by helping
customers manage more information with less effort. Fluent's software is
used for simulation, visualization, and analysis of fluid flow, heat
and mass transfer, and chemical reactions.

As a rule of thumb, CG images take roughly an hour per frame to render.

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PRESS RELEASE Turner Studios Selects BlueArc Titan to Accelerate Digital Film Production and Retrieval

"Titan was easily faster in performance than other products we compared."

"Using BlueArc's Titan, many of today's top CGI and visual effects studios
have been able to remove storage constraints, enabling them to take on more
artists, move to higher resolution projects and generate more revenue,"
said Mike Gustafson, president of BlueArc.

To manage large farms, one must introduce a queue manager that will facilitate automatic distribution of processes to the many processors.

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, "Small companies like us, without the
hardware to solve large problems, are stuck.

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We get all the functionality of the FLUENT
code and can just upload our problem to the Fluent RSF cluster to
solve.

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About Turner Studios

Turner Studios is the full service broadcast production division of Turner
Entertainment Group, providing turnkey services for film, video and audio
production. For more information on how this
unique system can be applied to your business processes, please
contact your Fluent Sales Representative.

For more information on RSolve visit:
www.

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By capitalizing on Fluent's in-house Linux cluster expertise, users
can immediately begin performing complex flow modeling on an optimized
solution, instead of facing the long and often complex hardware and
software procurement issues they might otherwise encounter. The RSF has been a
perfect solution for us.

The amount of time it takes to render an image has remained roughly constant over two decades, in spite of huge improvements in computer processing power.

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BlueArc storage provides fast data access that allows artists to focus
their attention on producing higher quality results. The
recent deployment of a Spray Dryer Modeler and Hydrocyclone Design
Tool illustrate the cost effectiveness and intuitive nature of the
Fluent Remote Simulation Facility.

The software is typically a client-server package that facilitates communication between the processors and the queue manager, although some queues have no central manager.

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Titan removes the
data -flow constraints that bottleneck even the most powerful render farms,
meaning faster renders, fewer dropped frames, and far less rework for
artists.com. In addition, the entry price
for using the RSF has been reduced by a factor of 3x to a range of
$US6/CPU-hr - $US3/CPU-hr, depending on volume of purchase.
"We are really sold on the RSF cluster", said Robert Acker,
President of Enthalmetrix Inc.

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Features like clustering and snapshotting have also helped our artists
spend more time on production and less time waiting for files to load,"
said Sean Polack, CGI Animation Developer for Turner Studios. "With some of the industry's
largest names, including Turner Studios, counting on BlueArc's Titan at the
core of their digitally driven business, we look forward to working with
additional customers in this market. Titan allows a single file system to
grow up to 256 terabytes and delivers throughput of up to 20 Gigabits per
second (Gbps). The architecture adapts to changing application or capacity
needs, thus simplifying management, accelerating productivity and
protecting a customer 's long-term investment. Since 1998, BlueArc has provided scalable and
reliable products, services and solutions to help enterprises achieve
unmatched productivity and profitability from their data .

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LEBANON, N.", says Deena Cota,
Product Manager for eBusiness Solutions at Fluent, "We are seeing the
Fluent Remote Simulation Facility continuing to gain acceptance over
the last year with almost 200% growth in usage over a wide range of
industry sectors" she added. We either use a watered
down CFD code - which we have not been able to make work - or make a
big investment in machines and a high-end code.