HP XW8400 User Manual

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AUTODESK® LUSTRE

2007

A Discreet® Systems product

HP xw8400 WORKSTATION

Hardware Setup Guide

Autodesk® Lustre® 2007

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Title: Hardware Setup Guide for HP xw8400 Workstations

Document Version: 2

Date: February 9, 2007

Contents

1 Introduction 1

Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

About This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Revision History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

The Lustre Workgroup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Optional Lustre Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Typical Configuration Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Workflow for Hardware Setup and Application Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Related Documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Hardware Configuration Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Notation Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Contacting Customer Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2Connecting Peripherals 15

Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Workflow for Connecting Peripherals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Connection Diagram for the HP xw8400 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Connecting the Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Connecting the Keyboard, Mouse, and Monitor Calibration Device . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Connecting Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Network Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

3 Connecting System Components 21

Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

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Workflow for Connecting System Components in the Lustre Workgroup . . . . . . . 21

Connecting the Autodesk Control Surface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Assigning an IP Address to the Autodesk Control Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Configuring Lustre to Connect to the Autodesk Control Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Connecting a Stand-Alone Tablet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Connecting the Slave Renderer to a Lustre Workstation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Connecting Video I/O to a Master or HD Station. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Connecting to a High-Speed Data Link Device (HSDL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Index 35

Summary

About This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Revision History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

The Lustre Workgroup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Optional Lustre Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Typical Configuration Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Workflow for Hardware Setup and Application Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Related Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Hardware Configuration Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Notation Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Contacting Customer Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

About This Guide

This guide describes how to set up the HP xw8400 workstation and the other hardware components of your Autodesk® Lustre® 2007 workgroup. The HP xw8400 workstation is available for Lustre systems on Windows®, as well as for Autodesk Incinerator™ Lustre systems on Linux®. To install and configure hardware and software components, use this guide in conjunction with the following documents: the Autodesk Lustre Software Installation Guide for Windows Workstations, the Autodesk Incinerator 2007 Installation and User’s Guide for Lustre with Incinerator, and the Stone Direct Configuration Guide for this release.

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In most cases, both hardware setup and application installation are done on delivery by an

authorized technician, so you may not need to perform some of the procedures in these guides.

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Revision History

This document is updated as necessary throughout the life cycle of the release. This section describes all additions and modifications made to this document since its initial publication.

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typographical errors or changes to section names, are not included in the revision history.

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Contacting Customer Support; Japan

Linux-Based Connection Diagram for the HP xw8400

Connecting the Monitor (EIZO 24-inch LCD)

Monitor Calibration Device on Linux Workstations

Connecting the Autodesk Control Surface

Configuring the Autodesk Control Surface on Linux

Connecting the Slave Renderer

Connecting Video I/O to a Master or HD Station

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The Lustre Workgroup

Lustre is a modular system that you can configure and expand to suit your needs. The features you purchase determine the hardware included with your system.

Central to any system is the Master Station or HD Station. The Master Station is a high-end Windows- or Linux-based PC designed to accommodate real-time interactivity in a clientattended or supervised session. You can add a Lustre Station to improve the efficiency of your pipeline.

Master Station —

where the colorist works together with the cinematographer. Contains an extensive creative toolset for more elaborate visual design and grading using up to 4K resolution and 16-bit files and for completing tasks like dust busting, conforming, rotoscoping and capture/playout.

HD Station —

mastering short-form and long-form HDTV projects, as well as HD film projects. Input up to 10-bit 2K and output HD and SD.

Includes the full Lustre toolset and is designed for GPU-accelerated sessions

Cost-effective GPU workstation for conforming, preparing, grading and

Optional Lustre Components

Lustre Station —

Tasks that do not require the direct intervention or supervision of the colorist can be efficiently handled by a Lustre Station. Multiple Lustre Stations can work in parallel to increase throughput and can be used for tasks such as dust-busting, preparatory work, fine-tuning creative sessions, conforming data from EDLs, updating editorial changes using change lists, and mastering to different formats using the real-time deliverables function.

Lustre Workstation Features

The following table describes the features available to each Lustre workstation.

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The features of Lustre 2007 may vary based on your hardware platform. Consult the

Notes

for your release for specific system information.

Station Configuration

Master Station

Lustre HD Station

Lustre Station

Default —

HSDL video formats and the DI Pack, which consists of infrared channel dust removal and support for all standard input and output resolutions and bit-depths. Certain features require add-on licensing.

Add-Ons —

configuration: the Slave Renderer and up to three panels for the Autodesk control surface. The Slave Renderer requires a separate license.

Default —

Station description). File input is limited to 2K resolution. File output is limited to HD resolution, 10-bit. Certain features require add-on licensing.

Add-Ons —

configuration: SD and HD I/O, dual link and HSDL video formats, the Slave Renderer, and up to three panels for the Autodesk control surface. The Slave Renderer requires a separate license.

Default —

colour grading. The DI Pack (see the Master Station description) is also included, along with full dust removal functionality, and the ability to create geometries and masks.

With Primary Colour Correction —

option as well as primary colour grading.

Add-Ons —

configuration or the With Primary Colour Correction configuration, and require an additional license: SD and HD I/O, dual link and HSDL video formats, and up to three panels for the Autodesk control surface. The Slave Renderer requires a separate license.

All features are available including SD and HD I/O, dual link and

The following features can be added to the Default

Includes all features except for the DI Pack (see the Master

The following features can be added to the Default

All features are available except for primary and secondary

Includes all features of the default

The following features are available for either the Default

Release

Optional Lustre Components

You can expand the features of your Lustre system and improve the efficiency of your workflow by adding any of the following components.

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Control Surface —

The Autodesk control surface provides improved interactiv ity when colour grading film and video footage. You can perform many of the same tasks you do in the Lustre user interface using the control surface.

Video I/O —

Video I/O is provided by the DVS Centaurus® board, which consists of an HD/ SD board and a breakout box. This configuration provides real-time SDI input and output of uncompressed 8- or 10-bit HD or SD video in both YUV (4:2:2) and RGB formats (4:4:4 or 4:2:2).

For a list of supported video formats, see the Autodesk Lustre 2007 User’s Guide.

Slave Renderer —

The Slave Renderer is a rack-mounted server that is connected directly to the Lustre workstation. It frees system resources by off-loading render tasks on an ‘as-needed’ basis, thus ensuring real-time interaction on the Lustre system.

Background Renderer —

Background rendering frees up Lustre workstations for colour

grading. You can use up to eight background rendering machines to process your final frames.

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For a list of Incinerator system components, refer to the

Installation and User’s Guide

Typical Configuration Overview

The following illustration shows a typical configuration, including the Master Station, Lustre Station, and other optional components.

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Workflow for Hardware Setup and Application Installation

The following procedure provides the general workflow for installing Lustre on an HP xw8400 workstation running Windows.

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For workflow information related to the HP xw8400 running on Linux for Incinerator, refer to the Autodesk Incinerator Installation and User’s Guide.

To install Lustre on an HP xw8400 workstation:

1. Review the guidelines for working with hardware components. See “Hardware

Configuration Guidelines” on page 7.

2. Connect all peripherals (mouse, keyboard, graphics monitor, storage, etc.) to each

workstation in your workgroup, and connect each workstation to the network. See Chapter

2, “Connecting Peripherals,” on page 15.

3. Connect your workstation to Autodesk Stone® Direct storage. See the Stone Direct

Configuration Guide.

4. Connect your Master or HD Station to a Slave Renderer, a control surface, tablet, and video

I/O components. See Chapter 3, “Connecting System Components,”

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The Slave Renderer is not used in Incinerator configurations.

5. Perform the procedures in the Autodesk Lustre 2007 Software Installation Guide or the

on page 21.

Autodesk Incinerator 2007 Installation and User’s Guide to install and license Lustre and Incinerator.

Hardware Configuration Guidelines

Installation and Configuration Guides Provides

Hardware Setup Guide

(for your workstation)

Stone Direct Configuration Guide

(for this release)

Autodesk Lustre 2007 Software Installation Guide

(for your operating system)

Stone and Wire Filesystem and Networking Guide

(for this release)

Other Guides Provides

Autodesk Lustre Sparks API Reference Guide

Autodesk Backburner 2007 Installation and User’s Guide

Information on how to set up your workstation and video I/O peripherals.

Provides detailed connectivity diagrams and configuration procedures for your Stone storage arrays.

Information about installing and licensing your Autodesk Lustre software. Note: For Lustre and Incinerator, see the Autodesk Incinerator Installation and User’s Guide.

Procedures for configuring your Wiretap™ services.

Instructions for developing Sparks® plugins for Lustre.

Information on how to install, set up, and use Backburner™.

Consult the Autodesk Web site at www.autodesk.com/discreet-documentation for the latest version of guides, release notes, and fixed and known bugs documents.

Hardware Configuration Guidelines

In most cases, hardware integration and application installation is done on delivery by an authori zed technician, and some of the pro cedures in this guide may not be necessary. Still, it is a good idea to read through all chapters to familiarize yourself with the configuration procedures for the following reasons:

• Many suspected problems with your Lustre system may be due to loosened connections or

improperly configured devices. This guide helps you troubleshoot problems by providing information about properly configured systems.

• If you need to call Customer Support, familiarity with this guide puts you in a better position

to provide diagnostic information.

• If you want to move your Lustre system at any time , or upgr ade ce rtain hardware components ,

information in this guide is crucial.

Although this guide, in conjunction with the Autodesk Stone Direct Configuration Guide, provides complete inform ation regardi ng hardware comp onent configu ration, it s hould only b e undertaken by an experienced hardware integrator. This individual should be familiar with the

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Windows or Linux operating systems, HP xw8400 workstations, and peripherals associated with professional high-performance video and post production of film.

Your Lustre system consists of high-performance hardware that must be configured in an environment suited to its operational needs. Other considerations include minimizing the risk of damage due to static discharge and ensuring all components are properly grounded.

Verifying and Updating The System BIOS Version

System configuration is performed by an authorized te chnici an p rior to delivery. As such, some of the procedures here may not be necessary. Workstation BIOS settings are provided for informational purposes.

The system BIOS on your workstation must correspond to the certified version required by your software version. If the BIOS version on your system does not correspond to the table below, you must update to the certified version.

Product Version Certified BIOS Version

2007 1.15

The BIOS version installed on your system appears onscreen while booting the workstation. The following procedures describe how to update the BIOS on your workstation.

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You should only update the BIOS if you find that it is not at the version listed in this

guide, or if your are advised to do so by Customer Support. Do not update the BIOS with a more

recent version published by the hardware vendor, if it has not been certified by Autodesk

Customer Support.

To update the BIOS on a Windows workstation:

1. Get the BIOS upgrade utility and burn it to a CD.

2. Insert the CD into the CD-ROM drive

3. Reboot the workstation and press F10 to enter BIOS.

4. Select a language.

5. From the File menu, select Flash System ROM.

The Select a Drive menu appears.

6. Click Optical Drive.

The Select a Drive confirmation menu appears.

7. Press F10 to confirm.

8. Select the 7D5_0115.bin file.

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contents

Summary

About This Guide

Introduction

Revision History

The Lustre Workgroup

Optional Lustre Components

Lustre Workstation Features

Typical Configuration Overview

Workflow for Hardware Setup and Application Installation

Related Documentation

Hardware Configuration Guidelines

Verifying and Updating The System BIOS Version