Seven Group

Seven Group specializes in solutions specific to the digital media industry. The following are examples of those solutions and how they can positively impact a production:

Render Farms:

Seven Group is the only company in Western Canada to have expertise specific to the design and deployment of this form of high-performance computing. Understanding the demands of high-density systems and addressing issues around power and cooling can have a significant effect on the bottom line of any production. The architecture required to support a render farm can have a huge impact on the usability of this centralized resource. Collaborative storage, proper networking, and render farm management are all keys to realizing the huge potential return on investment that render farms can produce.

Build Farms:

Video game studios are now facing huge demands on their resources. Challenged to build higher-fidelity games for more powerful consoles and PCs, studios are rising to the challenge by making their game teams more efficient, collaborative, and productive through the use of build farms. This solution, similar to a render farm, allows for a centralized resource, accessible by anyone in the studio, that is vastly more powerful that any single PC. Reduce build times from hours to minutes. Allow for more iteration. Enable your artists and coders to see and test their work in seconds. Build farms enable game studios to compete in the fast-paced world of high-fidelity game development.

Perforce:

The Perforce application is central to many game studios’ pipelines. Originally developed to handle code revision management, Perforce also is being used to manage digital assets, as well. Seven Group has developed a reference architecture to address issues with managing large amounts of digital assets through Perforce, enabling studios to tie in build and render farms, and decrease access times to digital assets.

Some of the other digital media solutions offered by Seven Group include:

• High Performance Storage solutions
• Content Archive Systems
• High Performance Networking
• Compositing Farms
• Non-linear editing Systems
• Digital Asset Management Systems
• Trans-coding Systems
• Artist Work Stations and Tool Systems
• Dailies Viewing and Transmission Systems
• WAFS for outsource collaboration
• DataCenter Physical – Power, Cooling, Racks etc.