Discreet, a division of Autodesk, Inc., has announced the availability of burn 1, a Linux-based network solution for its visual effects systems inferno, flame, and flint.  With the inaugural release of burn, part of a multi-phase infrastructure strategy, Discreet intends to enhance client profitability by delivering scalable, cost-effective processing for post-production and broadcast workflows. burn delivers double the offline rendering performance of complex visual effects. burn ships with backburner, Discreet's network rendering management software. Working with the inferno, flame, and flint systems, backburner prioritizes and allocates requests for more efficient workload sharing across multiple render nodes. With as few as two render nodes, burn can reduce the rendering time of a single flame system in half-doubling productivity. ? ?burn software is available immediately and requires Linux Red Hat version 8.0. The burn software ships with licenses that can be installed on a variety of supported hardware configurations.

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