From graphics processing and rendering to digital content compression and encoding, the work of both large and small studios can be accelerated via cluster computing interconnect solutions from QLogic.

Graphics rendering is an area of growing importance in the entertainment industry and the cornerstone in gaming and 3D animation. While single processor workstations have become more powerful in recent years, many problems in graphics and visualization remain unapproachable with single processor platforms, and new applications have appeared that require parallel and distributed processing.

Cluster computing enables both large and small studios to deal with the increased demand for computational power brought on by increasingly complex, data-intensive models. QLogic's products support a wide range of graphics/image applications and include high-performance protocol processing features to enable the type of scalability required of today's most sophisticated graphics processing and rendering farms.

QLogic interconnected server networks can also be utilized in other areas of the entertainment and media industries. Film studios and game developers of limited size and budget can build supercomputers utilizing off the shelf commodity server and storage resources to meet peak rendering cycles for films or important project deadlines. And media companies with large collections of digital content can use QLogic interconnect fabrics to support large-scale archiving processes.

Speed Time to Market

The high-throughput ability of QLogic interconnect fabrics enables faster rendering of complex graphics or movie frames used in 3D animation and can convert ordinary servers and workstations into a supercomputing cluster equaling the performance of large render farms.

Improve Visualization

The capacity to process larger data sets and more complex models with QLogic connected compute resources improves the ability to visualize and draw new conclusions about important patterns and data significance.

Reduce or Eliminate Costs

QLogic solutions are price/performance leaders for supporting large amounts of compute power in a cost effective way. Building a render farm using QLogic can be significantly less expensive then using an SMP based infrastructure.