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Due to the wide spectrum of specialist creative workflows in game development, we recommend PowerScale F-series nodes. F-series nodes are all-flash or all-NVMe node types, and they can deliver the significant performance required when managing your large-format media files.
Many of the creative disciplines in game development are akin to the post-production and visual-effects workflows in the film world. Artists create textures, lighters light environments, modelers create in-game items, audio artists create foley (sound effects) and music. The F200, F600, F800, and F900 nodes are all capable of delivering multiple streams of uncompressed 4K video files from a single node using TCP. (For details, see the Dell PowerScale F200 for Ultra HD Video Workflows white paper.)
We can also serve the NFS depot exports over RDMA (providing that the client end has the correct hardware on board). Using RDMA enables Helix Core, edge, and proxy servers to entirely bypass the TCP stack and achieve faster network throughput speeds to the storage with lower CPU utilization.
By using RDMA, we can deliver uncompressed 8K video playback over 100 GbE network infrastructure that was not possible when using TCP. In Dell testing, as described in detail in the PowerScale OneFS: NFS over RDMA for Media white paper, RDMA enabled workstations to play uncompressed 8K DCI, PIZ compressed 6K, and 60-frames-per-second 4K DCI content. None of this media would play using TCP.