18 Sept 2008
4: 00 pm


DUX Soft bags PC Quest Best IT Implementation Award 2008
By ANKITA SHAH
The DUX Soft team with the award
DUX Soft bagged the PC Quest Best IT Implementation of the Year 2008 Award for its high performance rendering tool - SPARX, at an event held at Taj Land's End, Mumbai on September 16, 2008.

Established five years ago, the PC Quest's 'Best IT Implementation Award' is aimed at identifying IT implementations that are truly a class apart from others and to honour innovative Indian IT implementations with the maximum business impact to companies.

SPARX is a High Performance Rendering tool for management of the complete Render Farm. It uses various High Performance Computing components that are usually used for Grid Computing. SPARX can work on Windows, Linux and Mac environments and can also be integrated with almost all media applications.

Commenting on the occasion, DUX Soft Chairman and CEO Amit Srivastava shared, "It is a matter of great pride that a young company like DUX Soft is gaining recognition at the national level. This award recognizes our efforts, expertise and our step towards the use of HPC for rendering."

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Regarding the USP of SPARX, Srivastava told AnimationXpress.com, "There are many schedulers out there but what makes SPARX so different is that it enables grid computing and so, better performance. Also, using virtualization, it helps run multiple instances of different applications at one time. Two more unique features are that it has thumbnail preview of rendered images and Scene File Analysis."

SPARX was a complete in-house project and the core team behind it includes architect and Lead Developer Indivar Nair (VP - Technical Services); IT Personnel Arun Bala, Kumar Yerneni, Sathyanarayan; Domain Consultants P Krishna Prasad (CTO - Concept and Vision, IT and Media Industry Consultant); T N Bharanidharan (Head Rendering - Rendering Consultant); and Aamir Shahinshah (Head Pipeline - Pipeline Consultant)

The product has been created for animation, VFX and gaming studios. It can be used through DUX Soft's online Render Farm or it can be installed in-house by studios with the complete guidance from DUX Soft which includes testing the performance of SPARX on the studio's media applications, a one year upgrade free of cost. DUX also offers separate Scene File Optimization services to our SPARX customers to improve their overall render performance.

The simple to use interface of SPARX brings the power of super computing to the end user who may not be a computer expert at all. www.renderarm.com, India's first Remote Render Farm provided by DUX Soft, uses SPARX for Render Management.

On DUX Soft's future plans, VP - Technical Services and SPARX Project Head, Indivar Nair added, "Our vision is to make a single platform, which will serve across all the verticals of a studio and give the animation world a complete end-to-end management solution. The future versions of SPARX will be a complete end-to-end productivity tool for the animation and VFX industry. They would have different modules like Pipeline Definition System, Project Management, File Version Control, Digital Asset Management, Render Management, Accounting and Billing, Resource Efficiency Management as well as Plug-ins, Platforms and Technologies."


ankita.shah@animationxpress.com


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