LAS VEGAS, April 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- 2011 NAB
SHOW -- LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced that LSI®
MegaRAID® 6Gb/s SATA+SAS RAID controller cards have been selected
by The Pixel Farm for integration with its PFClean™ digital film
restoration and remastering platform. The high performance I/O
bandwidth available from LSI MegaRAID controllers helps The Pixel
Farm reduce the time it takes to digitize, restore and remaster a
feature-length film from months to days, delivering improved
productivity and significant cost savings compared to older
generation technology.
"When it comes to film restoration, time is of the essence, as
vintage film stocks continue to deteriorate," said Michael Lancaster, managing director of The
Pixel Farm. "With our PFClean platform, we have automated the
restoration tasks and drastically accelerated the process by taking
advantage of the latest multicore processors combined with leading
I/O controller technology from LSI that allow data to keep flowing
to the processor cores fast enough to realize the full performance
capabilities of the processor chipsets."
PFClean is a digital image restoration tool that automates the
removal of dirt, dust, scratches and excessive graining in older
films. Before tools like PFClean, cumbersome, time-consuming
frame-by-frame manual and chemical processes were required to
remove artifacts and defects. The I/O capabilities of LSI MegaRAID
cards help the PFClean platform automate many of these tedious
manual processes, enabling titles to be restored and remastered in
record time. The MegaRAID performance also helps enable PFClean to
combine digital tools and technologies that modern original
productions have begun to use to ingest, color correct, edit, add
effects or titles and render out at today's high-resolution, large
screen and 3D formats.
"We chose The Pixel Farm's turnkey systems to boost our
productivity. Having a client base including ITV, The British Film
Institute and Icon Entertainment requires us to produce the best
possible results to ever-shortening deadlines compounded by
ever-growing back catalogues," said Steve
Boag, managing director of Cineimage, London. "The automated toolset and pure
performance of the PFClean turnkey system in conjunction with LSI
storage is just phenomenal. The labor savings and productivity
improvements have redefined the game for us."
In a typical Pixel Farm customer environment, LSI MegaRAID
controllers are required to meet a minimum data I/O rate of
12MB/frame, 24frames/sec, or almost 300MB/sec for a single stream
of 8-bit, 2K uncompressed video. The impact on the bitrate
increases by a factor of four with a 4K pixel width, requiring I/O
bandwidth of 1GB/sec or approximately 1.2Tb/sec throughput.
LSI MegaRAID controllers also help The Pixel Farm to more
cost-effectively scale storage capacity in a small footprint. With
the high port count MegaRAID SAS 9280-16i4e, The Pixel Farm can
take advantage of the card's 16 internal ports and 4 external ports
to support both internal drive storage and external JBOD expansion
up to 240 SATA or SAS drives. This combination of performance and
capacity provided by LSI MegaRAID controllers helps to drive
greater efficiencies in the labs and post production houses that
The Pixel Farm supports.
"Film restoration is a critical part of preserving art history,
and data storage technologies should not hinder these important
efforts," said Brent Blanchard,
director, worldwide channel sales and marketing, LSI. "As video and
broadcast professionals work to digitize, restore and remaster
these film stocks, the I/O capabilities of LSI MegaRAID cards help
to accelerate the process, maximize productivity and reduce overall
costs."
Additional information about The Pixel Farm/MegaRAID solution
can be found at
http://www.lsi.com/DistributionSystem/User/AssetMgr.aspx?asset=56887.
LSI will be demonstrating products from its comprehensive
portfolio of 6Gb/s SATA+SAS storage building block solutions at the
2011 National Association of Broadcasters Show (Booth #5058) taking
place this week at the Las Vegas
Convention Center.
LSI storage products are available through a worldwide network
of distributors, system integrators and VARs. Additional
information is available at www.lsi.com/channel.
About LSI
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silicon, systems and software technologies that enable products,
which seamlessly bring people, information and digital content
together. The company offers a broad portfolio of capabilities and
services including custom and standard product ICs, adapters,
systems and software that are trusted by the world's best known
brands to power leading solutions in the Storage and Networking
markets. More information is available at www.lsi.com.
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