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Sony Videographers Latch onto Gear6 Caching Appliance

Movie company reduces rendering time by speeding I/O.

Movie company reduces rendering time by speeding I/O.

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By Doug Barney

Mountain View, CA-based Gear6 yesterday announced that Sony Pictures Imageworks is using the Gear6 CACHEfx caching appliance to speed the rendering of Sony’s massive rendering farm.

The CACHEfx appliance speeds the connection between storage and the rendering systems, which can total thousands of processors. In addition, multiple clients, even in the thousands, can use the cached data at the same time. For more on the Sony deal, go here.

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