WETA Digital
Weta Digital, Ltd.
Doing It All: High Availability, Performance, and
The Customer:
Weta Digital Delivers Award-Winning Visual Effects for Film
Founded in 1993 and located in Wellington, New Zealand, Weta
the success of the recent The Lord of the Rings film of the trilogy, The Fellowship of the Ring million. The second film, The Two Towers US$1 billion. The third and final film of the trilogy, King , is scheduled for release at the end of 2003. The scope of these projects is unparalleled in film history.
resolution film data 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, Weta Digital and scalability is extremely high.
Scott Houston, the chief technology officer for Weta Digital, is
Houston says.
The Challenge:
Weta faces the daily challenge of storing and moving very large amounts of data. Each visual frame of film data is approximately artist workstation environments and a “render wall” environment,
1,200 dedicated processors (also running at 2.2 GHz). All this computing power is constantly accessing approximately 40TB of data simultaneously.
operations. As the CTO, I don’t want to have to worry about the the network,” Houston says.
Key Highlights
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INDUSTRY
High-end animation, visual effects,and postproduction for major motion pictures
?LOCATION
Wellington, New Zealand
?KEY BUSINESS CHALLENGES
High demands for performance,data availability, and reliability Huge volumes of data Exponential data growth
?KEY BUSINESS SOLUTIONS
NetApp ?unified storage systems,including NearStore ?technology
?KEY BUSINESS BENEFITS
Extremely high performance enables the highest production values under rigorous production schedule demands
High availability and reliability relieve concern about the infra-structure and enable focus on the work at hand
Massive scalability supports expo-nential data growth—without dis-ruption—and removes constraints on creativity
True partnership means shared commitment to success
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likewise, the number of artists and the amount of processing power will also increase exponentially in the coming year to enable on-time completion of the third and final film of the trilogy. The storage systems needed to support these demands must be extremely fast, very reliable, and highly scalable.
The Solution:
NetApp Systems Deliver High Availability, Performance, and Scalability
Weta has deployed eight NetApp enterprise storage systems to handle production data transfers. In addition,
a NetApp NearStore system stores scanned images of all the original film plates and serves as a buffer zone for moving data from the online environment to an offline tape backup system.
To remain a leader in the postproduction industry, Weta Digital requires extremely high performance and reliable access
to massive amounts of data. NetApp storage systems have enabled Weta to achieve the highest production values in the industry and to meet very demanding timeline requirements. of very difficult shots during production,
one of which comprised over a terabyte
of data. During that time, approximately
50 artists and a total of more than 1,000
processors were hammering 1 NetApp
storage system—24 hours a day, 7 days
a week for about 3 weeks, non-stop.
According to Houston, “The fact that the
NetApp system kept working—without
interruption and at extremely high
speeds—was absolutely critical to the
success of the project and to getting the
movie out on time.”
This level of performance and reliability
enables the Weta team to focus on their
projects and on their business. “The key
benefit for me is that I don’t have to
worry about losing data, about data
being unrecoverable, or about pushing
data out as fast as possible to the
artists. The system just works—very
well—and I don’t have to think about it,”
says Houston.
No doubt, Weta Digital is destined for
even greater success—with the comple-
tion of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy
and beyond. Fulfilling that destiny will
continue to involve rapid and exponential
data and system growth, for which
NetApp unified storage solutions are
ideally suited. According to Houston,
“Between the first and second films of
the trilogy, we doubled the number of
artists, tripled the amount of online
available storage, and quadrupled the
amount of processing power in the
space of three months—just to deliver
the special effects required for the second
film. We anticipate the same level of expo-
nential growth for the third film, and for
that we’re relying on Network Appliance.”
In building the company infrastructure,
the Weta team sought partners that
understood their business—the
compressed time frames, the 24x7
schedule—and that shared a passion
for their projects. Houston notes,
“We’ve found a true partner in Network
Appliance, and it’s a pleasure working
with them—from the support, the cost-
effective products, and the training we
get from them.”
To sum it all up, Houston adds, “We
simply couldn’t have made The Lord of
the Rings without Network Appliance.”
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