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February 4, 2010
•Case Study: Kolor Turns To Intel To Support One Of The World's Largest Ever Panoramic Images
By Intel
Kolor is widely recognised as the leader in image stitching software. To further raise its profile and to showcase the advanced functionality of its Autopano Giga product, Kolor recently embarked on the Paris-26-gigapixels project. This involves the creation of one of the largest assembled panoramic images in the world. Due to the sheer amount of data processing involved in creating this image, the stitching and rendering processes of this project require ultra-high-performing hardware to run the Autopano software. For this reason, Kolor chose servers based on the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series.
Alexandre Jenny, founder of Kolor, said: "The processing speed of the Intel® platform was amazing. We completed the Paris-26-gigapixels rendering in three hours and 14 minutes. Two years ago, it took 48 hours to render the Harlem-13-gigapixels running on the Intel® Xeon® processor 5300 series. In other words, we've been able to process twice the number of pixels 15x faster."
Rather than a traditional hard disk drive (HDD), Kolor is using six Intel® Solid State Drives (Intel® SSD) in a RAID optimised to handle the amount of data that needs to be processed. SSDs replace slow disk I/O with much faster and a more power-efficient SSD I/O that doesn't suffer from mechanical failures. In other words, they are more stable and reliable.
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