Process Virtualization with ZeroVM

Jakub Krajcovic

Or How to revolutionize an industry

“The Academy thought we cheated by using computers”.- Steven Lisberger, Director

900 People, 2 VFX Studios9 Nominations, 3 Wins

“in the making” since 1990s

3 Petabytes of Data

1 minute of final footage was 17.28GB

Online files in the 100s of millions

About 2 petabytes of data

100TB of space consumed in a weekend

1 minute sequence is 34GB or 68GB

1: Space needed for storage

2: Expensive storage equipment

3: Processing the data

4: Working with the data

Storage space and price

Adding “life” to the data

Process isolation

75KB needed for execution environment- Turns out Bill Gates was right after all

C99 compatible execution environment

<5ms startup time

Inherently safe and multi-tenanted

Gateways and Edge Filers

Multi-threaded, massively parallel file I/O