Peaktime Belgium selects two SGI Origin 3200 Servers and an SGI TP9400 Storage SystemAmsterdam 14 September 2001 Two SGI Origin 3200 high-performance servers and a 5TB SGI Total Performance 9400 (TP9400) RAID storage array have been installed at Peaktime Belgium, a Brussels-based company delivering a variety of monitoring and tracking services to the Belgian TV industry.
The new SGI Origin 3200 servers sharing storage via Fibre Channel and running in parallel with failsafe procedures will be used for a number of compute-intensive applications, including a new project where Peaktime Belgium's Peaktime Pro software, developed on the SGI IRIX platform, will digitise TV images in MPEG-1, 24 hours a day, for 13 Belgian TV channels and store the data for four weeks on the SGI TP9400 storage system.
Clients for the Peaktime service, connected via a high-band, 34Mb-per-second minimum network, will include TV channels, media sales houses and eventually television producers. Customers will utilise a Windows 2000 programme running a version of Peaktime Pro, which can show up to five different TV channels and their ratings in real time.
A new intricate asset management and search system, written on the SGI IRIX OS by Peaktime in collaboration with the Société Générale de Téléinformatique (SGT) in France, will also be installed on the SGI Origin 3200 servers and TP9400 storage system in the next several months. Customers will then be able to
access both new services directly from the Internet or via private higher bandwidth networks.
Peaktime Belgium's TV Times division uses TrueTime, a complete software tool for both spot logs and programme logs that captures two images per second, 24 hours a day, for the 13 Belgian channels. TrueTime, also developed by Peaktime on the SGI IRIX platform, has run for years on Silicon Graphics Indy workstations and, later, Silicon Graphics O2 workstations, according to
Mr. Philippe Delhaise, general manager, Peaktime Belgium.
He added that Peaktime Belgium plans to replace the Indy systems with new Silicon Graphics O2+ workstations linked to the just-purchased SGI Origin 3200 servers, with files stored on the SGI TP9400 storage system. Plans are also under way to port the TrueTime program to Linux, and Linux OS-based workstations from SGI are currently under serious consideration.
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