Flying Bark: Improved Processing and Rendering with AMD and Supermicro

As an animation post-production company, Flying Bark work within a production house for channels on television by the process of rendering raw images and the finished product is then presented on television. The company required a solution that was highly compatible with their unique post-production software and provided significant performance improvements to their production use case. This mainly consisted of rendering and processing raw images for animated movies and television series.

After assessing the client’s needs, DiGiCOR delivered a bundle of A+ BigTwin multi-node servers powered by 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors. The solution was designed for compute-intensive workloads, offering scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency while reducing licensing and infrastructure costs.

Step-by-step implementation:

1. Server deployment: Supplied multi-node A+ BigTwin servers with dual 2nd Gen AMD EPYC CPUs, optimised to run as either GPU or CPU-based solutions for diverse production workloads.

2. Efficiency optimisation: Leveraged Supermicro Twin architecture to achieve 50% footprint reduction compared to standard 2U servers, maximising performance per rack while lowering power and operational costs.

3. Future scalability: Designed the solution with configurable options and supported plans for adding CPUs to three nodes, aligning with the client’s budget and long-term growth strategy.

SUPERMICRO A+ 2124BT-HTR

We optimised a high compute system that satisfied the rendering and processing workload requirements the company had. This was supported by the pilot system that they had also initially integrated. With our many collaborative projects in the past, we were able to provide a purposeful solution to satisfy their large processing and rendering workloads within their budget requirements, with the ability of being highly scalable and flexible for future technology refreshes and upgrades.

Overall, we have positively assisted the company with previous projects in the past, providing the latest technology in the market such as AMD-optimised solutions and our local high-quality services and support.