Customer Case Study
Beijing Planetarium
2/4/2009
Planetarium Increases Rendering Speeds for Faster Creation of Astronomy Shows
Beijing Planetarium produces leading-edge digital planetarium shows using high-performance computing for rendering animation and special effects. It recently upgraded its environment to Windows® HPC Server 2008, which has helped the planetarium reduce the time, effort, and operating costs that are associated with managing the system.
Industry: Libraries, Museums
Size: Medium, 200 employees
Country: China  China

Customer Profile
http://www.bjp.org.cn
Beijing Planetarium is a leader in public astronomy and one of Beijing's most popular attractions, with a digital space theater, three-dimensional and four-dimensional theaters, and two observatories.
Business Situation
In order to create the tens of thousands of individual frames for their digital space shows, the Beijing Planetarium used a Microsoft HPC solution. To increase revenue, the Planetarium need to upgrade to reduce production times while increasing manageability.
Solution
In a few hours, the Beijing Planetarium deployed a 35-node cluster running on Windows HPC Server 2008, with plans to add servers and nodes in the near future.
Benefit
  • 50% reduction in deployment time.
Software
  • Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008
Quote
"We've experienced a cost savings of up to 10 percent with our new environment because we've eliminated a lot of third-party management software. That means that we can dedicate resources to other strategic investments."
Steven Song
Director of the Digital Studio
Beijing Planetarium