Colombia. For more than ten years, the Colombian company 8088.net has been working with video editing systems, but it was not until 2008 that it gained international visibility thanks to its first "render farm", which processed special effects for the American series "Mental", produced by Fox Telecolombia.
By 2010 he made one of the first Colombian 3D productions that was commercially shown in the country's cinemas. This eight-minute short film showed that you could go far with the talent and resources you have in Colombia.
To provide and make available to national and international producers the technology necessary to successfully carry out their projects, the company uses servers with Intel Xeo E5-2670 processor with 10 Gb Ethernet card and SSDs of the 900 family. In this way they set up a cluster that they also rent to students or companies with strong computational needs.
According to Alejandro Peláez Arango, Business Technologies Manager, Intel Cono Norte, "what they do is on par with any production of global prestige and the technology they use is the most advanced of the moment. Skeptics who think that in Colombia we always lag behind technology several years would be surprised to see the speed with which this group of engineers tests and uses Intel products that others have not even seen."
And although 8088 has specialized in the subject of digital content, the technology they use does not only work for the making of films or shorts. The computational prowess of 8088 and the Intel equipment used also contribute to oil exploration, genetics research, and other fields that require high-performance computing. In Colombia, an enormous opportunity is opening up.
