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Creating an animated feature film is a colossal task that involves millions of hours of compute time. In this session, DreamWorks Animation’s Mark Jackels (Senior Director of Production Software) dives into how DreamWorks Animation leverages HTCondor, a sophisticated open-source workload orchestration and scheduling system, to handle these massive workloads. He also covers how other open-source technologies such as Grafana, InfluxDB, PostgreSQL, and Greenplum play a crucial role in monitoring and optimizing large-scale workload processing.
Access the session to learn how DreamWorks Animation consistently achieves over 95% utilization of our render farm, ensuring the efficient production of animated films.
About Mark Jackels
Mark is the Senior Director of Production Software at DreamWorks Animation. With a career spanning aerospace, automotive, and commercial industries, he joined DreamWorks in 2002, contributing to film franchises like Shrek, Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar, and How to Train Your Dragon. Mark leads teams focused on large-scale applications, distributed computing, data pipelines, and visualizations. Recently, he has driven efforts to integrate machine learning into film production, enhancing imaging techniques, quality, and workflow optimization.
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