Soho VFX and Workstations
Berj understands delivering high-end visual effects means Soho VFX must ensure its IT infrastructure stays abreast of the rapid technological advancements. To make the impossible happen for Hollywood movies, Soho VFX runs high-end, compute-intensive applications for rendering, image manipulation and compositing and even develops some of its own software. A render farm is a group of computers working together to perform the computation-intensive tasks of 3-D rendering, typically for film and television special effects.
Soho VFX’s Solution: Dell Precision Workstations for Media and Entertainment
With Dell’s Precision workstations , Soho VFX can redefine the cutting edge and keep projects on task while its creativity roams free. Dell Precision workstations feature the intelligent, 32nm Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series to deliver excellent performance on multithreaded workstation applications. Each workstation is specifically designed for the graphics-intensive and memory-hogging software needed to produce a stunning visual effect, step-by-step, frame-by-frame. “We began to examine Dell for our workstation technology and discovered that all of the reliability and efficiency that we were getting in the server room, we were able to get from Dell in our workstations as well,” explains Berj. “They have to be reliable, they have to work, they have to be fast. And considering the numbers that we end up buying for our office, they have to be inexpensive as well.” |  |
