Domestic HPC and cloud computing will go into Hollywood

What do you think of the hottest 3D movies? "Avatar", a historic breakthrough for http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/9420.html ">3d technology"? Or the recent hot release, a single week at the box office to reach 468 million yuan in the 3D version of "Titanic"? Recently, successfully directing the 3D version "Titanic" and "Avatar" director, "3D movie godfather" James Cameron led the team to China, the Chinese fans to further reveal the charm of the technology.

To jointly create a world-class 3D industrial base, a few days ago, Cameron Pesse Group China headquarters and Tianjin Binhai High-tech zone, Tianjin North Film Group signed a settlement agreement. As Cameron? Co-Chairman of Pace Group, James? Cameron, Vince? Pace attended the signing ceremony. It is reported that Tianjin as one of the birthplace of Chinese film, cultural and creative industry in recent years rapid development, national 3D Film and television Creative Park is speeding up construction. In 3D technology and film and television production has a strong strength of the Cameron? Pace Group has targeted the development of Tianjin.

3D movies in the visual effects that let us feel can not be separated from high-performance computing, in the movie "Avatar", 60% of the picture is entirely generated by computer animation with a high sense of realism effect. In order to achieve the standard required for 3D films, the hard disk storage space needed for animation rendering is more than 1PB, and the storage system should be built by 500 2TB hard drives. Cameron has previously directed the film by his own raelity Camera system is mainly responsible for the 3D effect of filming and production, now Cameron? Pace Group is also actively looking for partners after settling in China.

The dawning company has attracted Mr Cameron's attention and curiosity for its high-performance computing applications in the Beijing Olympics and famous films. At the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the "Prince of Gymnastics" Li Ning in the air hand to lift the torch in the "picture" on the run of digital image effect by the Dawn supercomputer processing completed. At the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympic Games, the digital image effect of the dawning supercomputer lasted for 60 minutes. Feng Xiaogang's work "assembly number" of film post-production is also using the Shuguang high-performance computer for rendering.

After signing the contract, the 3D edition "Titanic" and "Avatar" director, "3D movie godfather" James Cameron first station to visit the Shuguang Tianjin Industrial base and Shuguang brand experience Center, in-depth understanding of Shuguang company in High-performance Computing, cloud computing achievements and applications.

It's not uncommon for a "tech geek" to be happy with Cameron. But when he learned of the astonishing speed of the Dawning nebula, he accidentally cocked his thumb. Dawning company successfully developed in 2010 China's first high-speed high-performance computer "Dawning Nebula", in the 35th session of the global supercomputer "TOP500" in the system peak per second 3000 trillion times (3PFlops), Measured Linpack value of 1.271 petajoules per second, achieved the world's second achievement, has become the world's 3rd test performance of tens of millions of billions of times the super computer, once again to the world argued "China speed."

In addition, Mr Cameron's director is also very interested in the dawning cloud computing service, hoping to set up Cameron in Tianjin. Pace Group China Headquarters, the introduction of the most advanced 3D technology, with the Chinese counterparts to promote the 3D industry to accelerate development. (van)

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)