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Linux goes to Hollywood
j2brown writes: " Yahoo! News has this little article about IBM taking Linux to Hollywood. " It's not a very in-depth article, but it is interesting that Big Blue is saying that Hollywood will be moving their rendering stuffs to Linux in the next 12 to 18 months. Wonder how SGI feels about that.
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Hopefully it won't end up like 90% of the people who go down that road, drugged-out, bimbo starlet doing softcore porn (and the director) to support it's escalating Coke addiction :)
Who wants to bet they'll still manage to put out multi-billion dollar "master pieces"....generally with nice fancy roman numerals next to the title to exploit the success of a previous successful movie (Jurassic Park II or III), or based on a video game that never really had much of a plot (Streetfighter).
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Um the point SGI is making is that their software (ie. OS) doesn't suck. You can blather all you want about "CPU bound", "parallelization", "distribution", etc. but the fact is that IRIX is better than any OS OS where ncpus > 1 and much better where ncpus >> 2. They have lower latencies for many critical operations when dealing with RT tasks. They have larger I/O throughput.
Of course you probably can't conceive of the fact that when you want to push a continuous 2 GB/s from a disk array you are going to run into more than just hardware bottlenecks. Weenie.