Technical Infrastructure
Render farm
- Krayon Render Farm is a densely packed cluster of 100 nodes, each of which has two Intel Xeon quad-core processors, 8 GB RAM and two 73 GB local hard drives.
Network
- Our network is two-tier architecture.
- Cisco 6509E switch with Dual Sup720 3C 10G as a Core Switch with 8 10G ports, 96 Fabric enabled 1GigE Copper ports and 48 1Gige normal ports.
- Cisco 3750-E 48 port switch connected to Core Switch by 4 GigE copper uplink.
Render nodes
- Dual Intel® Xeon® Quad Core E5440 80w 2.83GHz/1333MHz/12MB L2
- 8GB PC2-5300 CL5 ECC DDR2 Chipkill FBDIMM RAM
- Two 73GB 15K SFF Non HS SAS hard drives
- Red Hat Linux
Storage
- SOFS – scale out file system – high availability file system
- Total Capacity: 48 TB
- Usable Capacity: 30 TB
- Raid Level: 5
- HDD Interface: a combination of SAS and SATA
- Bandwidth: 500MBPs throughput.
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