Implementation of an overflow solution for more than 15,000 cores
Illumination is an animation film production company, a subsidiary of Universal Pictures, based in Paris in the 15th district. In just a few years, it has become the European leader in the animated feature film industry.
Thousands of cores mobilized for the Minions
Illumination selected Qarnot for the image compute of the internationally acclaimed animated feature film, Minions 2: Once Upon a Time Gru. The Qarnot teams met a major technical challenge for a first-ever collaboration, mobilizing more than 15,000 computing cores in three weeks.
Four months of intensive computing allowed Qarnot to render the highly anticipated second part of the animated film (6.6 million tickets sold in France for the first). A major player in high-performance computing for nearly ten years, Qarnot has built its reputation in the banking and 3D animation fields in particular. An expertise sought after by its customers, like Bruno Mahé, Head of Technology at Illumination.
When you know that the rendering of a 90-minute animation film of average quality can heat an average French household for a little more than 46 years or the city of Paris for 16 minutes during the coldest month of the year, you realize what is at stake around an international production like the Minions.