CCS Portable Ultra-Compact Workstation

Hi-Performance Gen5 Computing In An Ultra-Compact Design. Don’t be Fooled Its Ultra-Compact Design – This Portable Powerhouse Packs All the Features & Performance of a Full-Sized, Gen5 Graphic Design Workstation. And with a Host of Options Available, You’re Sure to Get the Level of Performance That’s Right for You:SPECIFICATIONS: Intel Core i5/i9 Series or AMD…

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NVIDIA RTX 6000 ADA GENERATION GPU
Benchmark Test Results

Over the past several months CCS has built a number of workstations with Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada 48GB GPU. Compared to their predecessor, the RTX A6000, the RTX 6000 Ada has approximately double the number of processors and offers impressive performance gains – more cores, faster cores, significantly larger L2 cache and increased bandwidth. However…

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HPA Tech Retreat 2023

We had an incredible time at this year’s HPA Tech Retreat. It was great to see dozens of old friends and colleagues and meet fellow Industry professionals from all over the country. This year we had our full line of Xenowulf liquid-cooled workstations & servers on display – including an AMD EPYC 9654 96-core Genoa…

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Ralph Lauren: Spring / Summer Fashion Show

The CCS Team was on-site last week at the Huntington Library in San Marino for the Ralph Lauren 2023 Spring/Summer collection fashion show. CCS provided all hardware & technical support for video editing and still-photo retouch. We also built the infrastructure and storage network for the entire project as well as the uplink for social…

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Nvidia NVLink Bridge & GPU Scaling in Unreal Engine

While working on a system build we had some questions arise about the benefit of using Nvidia SLI NVlink and GPU utilization in systems using more than 2x GPU when running Unreal Engine. Fortunately we had a Xenowulf 4x RTX A6000 workstation sitting in the shop so we decided to see for ourselves. Nvidia’s NVLink…

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Apple M1 Ultra SoC GPU Performance

How well does Apple’s new M1 Ultra Silcon Chip perform compared to systems with a dedicated GPU? We thought we’d find out… On the Apple website, we found the following graph & accompanying quote: “For the most graphics-intensive needs, like 3D rendering and complex image processing, M1 Ultra has a 64-core GPU — 8x the…

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Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra – CPU Benchmark Comparison Test

CCS recently added the new 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra to its rental inventory. The workstation features the new Apple M1 Ultra 20-Core all-in-one SoC (System on Chip). The M1 CPU utilizes 16x ‘hi-performance’ Cores & 4x ‘hi-efficiency’ Cores. Upon arrival we put one on the bench and start testing the M1 CPU performance. Here’s…

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Improve Your Data I/O Workflow

Still using SAS or SATA Drives to Move Media? Why not improve your Data I/O workflow using PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD technology. Replace your current SSD & HDD drives with our new ARWS Media Transfer System. It will dramatically increase your data transfer speeds – up-to 7GB/sec! The system includes a patented proprietary PCIe 4.0 Interface…

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Next Gen Engineering & Design

All custom PC Workstation & Server manufacturers talk about their high-performance computing solutions. The fact is that they all use similar components and engineering design. Only the Xenowulf line of workstations and servers deliver innovative, Next-Gen precision engineering and design. Here’s a look at a Xenowulf X7000 workstation recently purchased by an LA-based Facility. One can…

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Nvidia Quadro RTX A6000 In-House Benchmark Test Results

CCS recently acquired several Nvidia Quadro RTX A6000 GPU. With 48GB of VRAM and a hefty price tag of $5K it’s certainly not for everyone. They do however offer a host of significant improvements over the previous Turing architecture and are a great choice for projects involving massive datasets & workloads. We really like the…

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CCS 2021: Year in Review

2021 was amazing year for Creative Computing Solutions. We’re very grateful to have had the opportunity work with some of the most talented artists & innovative companies in the Industry. Providing hardware solutions for their technical challenges not only makes our work interesting and rewarding. Here’s a short list of projects and events that CCS…

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UNITY Art Engine

AI-Assisted 3D Design Today artists working in CG, Compositing, Modeling, Motion Graphics, etc… have a wide range of incredible software tools available to them. One of the most impressive that we’ve seen in terms of functionality and features is UNITY ArtEngine. We’ve been especially impressed by its tool set for AI assisted 3D design and…

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PCI Express Gen4: Sound Boring but It’s Really Important!

Much like the transitions from USB 2.0 to USB 3.2 or Thunderbolt-2 to Thunderbolt-3, PCIe 4.0 is going to have a major impact on production and post workflows. It will dramatically reduce the time needed to load applications, off-load & transfer data, pull assets and playback uncompressed hi-resolution media. If you’re involved in Content Creation,…

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CCS helps LuxMC Score Big at NFL Honors 2021

One of our favorite customers, Lux Machina Consulting (LuxMC), designs Virtual Production systems for television, feature film and live event broadcast. Their projects are always technically demanding and require us to provide custom designed computer workstations and systems. One recent project required PC workstations custom configured for real-time render and playout. “When we were faced…

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Blender, Octane, Redshift & V-Ray Render Test Results

At Creative Computing Solutions we recently ran several Render tests using four of the most popular Render software apps: Blender, Octane, Redshift & V-Ray. As you may know, Blender and V-Ray offer CPU and GPU render while Octane and Redshift are GPU-based Render apps. For the CPU Render tests we used our line of AMD…

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CURRY X PHILIP SISK

Philip Sisk x Curry Tan

Philip Sisk is a multi-talented Senior level VFX Supervisor with over 20-years of experience in the Film Industry. He also recently completed an Unreal Fellowship Program. Philip recently joined us for an online interview with our Vlog correspondent & 2020 Student Academy Award winner, Curry Sicong Tian. Philip and Curry cover a wide range of…

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Solid State Drive Performance

Background RAID is an acronym for “Redundant Array of Independent Disks”. A RAID consists of 2 or more drives working in parallel. It is designed to improve drive performance, reliability and provide parity i.e. prevention of data loss using data redundancy and back-up in case of a drive failure. There are various types of RAIDS,…

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BASICS of RENDERING ~ What’s Right for You?

CUDA vs OpenGL   What is CUDA? CUDA was created by graphics card (GPU) manufacturer, Nvidia. In simple terms, CUDA allows programs to use the brains of the GPU as a sub-CPU. Your CPU passes certain tasks off to the CUDA enabled card. The GPU specializes in quickly calculating effects like lighting, movement and interaction.…

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CPU Render: Test Results

Last month CCS published the results of extensive in-house CPU & GPU ‘synthetic’ performance benchmark tests. Today we’re releasing the results from the first in a series of CPU & GPU Render tests. These tests will be geared towards providing ‘real-world’ workflow benchmarks. For this round, we focused on CPU Render using Cinebench R23, Corona…

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