Build a Cloud Render-Ready Infrastructure
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The document discusses the implementation of a cloud infrastructure for rendering at Framestore, highlighting the importance of compute flexibility and scalability in their workflow. It outlines the collaboration with Google Cloud Platform and Avere Systems to optimize rendering processes, storage, and connectivity. Key benefits include enhanced creative flow, reduced idle hardware, and cost-effective scaling of compute resources during peak times.
Build a Cloud Render-Ready Infrastructure
- 1. Build a Cloud Render-Ready Infrastructure Why Compute Flexibility Matters to Framestore's Rendering Workflow Tristan Crichton, Sr. Systems Administrator, Framestore Jeff Kember, Cloud Solutions Architect, Google Cloud Platform Matt Provost, Sr. Systems Engineer, Avere Systems September 9, 2015
- 2. Today’s Speakers Tristan Crichton Sr. Systems Administrator Framestore Jeff Kember Cloud Solutions Architect Google Cloud Platform Matt Provost Sr. Systems Engineer Avere Systems
- 3. Housekeeping • Recording – Available on-demand approximately 5 minutes after today’s presentation • Resources – White paper – Information Sheet – Links • Questions • Please rate this webinar
- 4. Agenda • The Framestore Story • Architecting Cloud Rendering in Google Cloud Platform • Enabling cloud compute with Avere vFXTs • Questions
- 5. Why Compute Flexibility Matters to Framestore's Rendering Workflow Tristan Crichton, Sr. Systems Administrator
- 6. Framestore’s Path • Framestore looks to the cloud – Why? • Scalable, on-demand compute resource – Planning and design • Which provider? • Who’s image? • Storage • Connectivity • Benchmarks & tuning • How to administer
- 7. Storage Topology • On Prem vs. Cloud – Latency – Workflow – Spin up time
- 8. Connectivity • Latency • Per instance VPN • VPN gateways • Bandwidth to Google – ISPs – Peering
- 9. Benchmarks and Tuning • Latency –Render environments –Pipeline tools –Job profiles –NFS caching • Avere vFXT
- 10. Benefits ”By adding Compute Engine to our workflow and allowing our in-house capacity to focus on the studio work, everyone’s project gets computing time – and the creative team can get as imaginative as they want to, with fast views of new iterations.” - Steve Macpherson, Framestore’s CTO
- 11. Benefits • CTO happy – No idle hardware between peaks – Machine room/power • Framestore – Creative flow – Render turnaround – Flexibility
- 12. Using Google Cloud Platform in Rendering Environments Jeff Kember, Cloud Solutions Architect
- 15. Changing the Business Model
- 25. Enabling Cloud Rendering Matt Provost, Sr. Systems Engineer
- 26. Enterprise-Grade NAS for the Cloud Avere is only solution to combine Enterprise-grade NAS with a complete feature set for the cloud. Enterprise- grade NAS 100% Cloud Enabled Cloud Gateway Vendors Traditional NAS Vendors • NFS & SMB/CIFS access • Clustering for performance and capacity scaling • Efficient use of SSD and GCS optimizes performance and cost • Cloud snapshots
- 27. Avere/Google Cloud Platform Use Cases Customer Challenges • Add compute resources at peak times • Need for 1-3 months, no long- term commitment • Do NOT want to rewrite applications • Do NOT want to move data to the cloud Avere Benefits • Virtual FXT: only scalable NAS for compute cloud • Hide latency to on-prem NAS and object storage • Easy setup, easy teardown • Pay only for what is used • Future: move data to the cloud for better economics
- 28. Avere/Google Cloud Platform Use Cases Google Cloud StorageGoogle Compute Engine On-Prem StorageOn-Prem Compute Bucket 2 Bucket n Bucket 1 Physical FXT Virtual FXT Virtual Compute Farm Cloud On-prem NAS Cloud NAS NAS Optimization
- 29. Cloud Bursting - Rendering Google Compute Engine Google Cloud Storage Physical FXT On-Prem Storage NAS Object On-Prem Compute Virtual FXT Virtual Render Farm
- 30. Google Compute Engine On-Prem Render Farm Create 100’s ‒ 1,000’s of artists Globally distributed Render/Composite 20k ‒ 100k Cores Avere performance accelerator Store Multiple tiers Cost-effective & resilient Los Angeles Vancouver New York London India Artists Cloud Render Farm FXT Google Cloud Storage Standard Nearline T2T1 T3100’s TB Multi-PB “any to any” FXT
- 31. Next Steps • Questions • How to get started • Please download resources • Please rate this webinar
- 32. Speaker Contact Information Tristan Crichton Sr. Systems Administrator Framestore Tristan.crichton@framestore.com Jeff Kember Cloud Solutions Architect Google Cloud Platform kember@google.com Matt Provost Sr. Systems Engineer Avere Systems mprovost@avereystems.com
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