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Weta Digital's Render Farm Upgrade

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the never-before-have-I-wanted-to-lick-a-wall dept.

Headspace2 writes "Weta Digital (The graphics company behing LOtR computer effects) has just purchased 220 2.2GHz dual Xenon machines, each with 4GB of ram, to add to their current render wall of 350 1 Ghz P3 systems. They have also placed an order for another 256 Xenon servers. And it's all running Linux. My favorite quote is 'it is thought the server farm will be the most powerful processing site in the Southern Hemisphere'. They should use that in the FotR ad campaign... 'Rendered using the most powerful processing site in the southern hemisphere' Congrats the guys that get to play with all those clock cycles. Make more movies.

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  1. Xenon? by syates21 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Powered by noble gas. Woohoo!!

  2. I want a dual Neon machine... by fmaxwell · · Score: 5, Funny

    Give the the warm orange glow of dual neon machines any day.

  3. About those Xenon wisecracks... by Devil's+BSD · · Score: 5, Funny

    You could use xenon to power a quantum computer. Dual xenon = 2 xenon atoms = 2 qubits, which could be roughly 64 bits, or the processing potential of a potato.

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  4. Do I see some movement ... by Nostrada · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... in some of the decentralized computing efforts, coming from the southern hemisphere?

    Team LotR strikes at Distributed Folding, ECCP, Folding@Home, Genome@Home, OGR (24 and 25), RC5, Sengent D2OL, SETI, UD ...

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  5. So much power... by Toasty16 · · Score: 5, Funny

    And yet they still can't make Frodo look like a guy.

  6. Who gives a monkey's chuff? by Beatlebum · · Score: 4, Funny

    >> They should use that in the FotR ad campaign... 'Rendered using the most powerful processing site in the southern hemisphere'

    So that morons like Taco can point this out to their long-suffering girlfriends?

    Who gives a fuck. Seriously dude, get a hold of youself and try not to be a weiner all your life.

  7. And for another "wise" Xenon joke... by vanza · · Score: 5, Funny

    Talk about vaporware!

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  8. Imagine... by swf · · Score: 4, Funny

    a single one of these!!!!

  9. the obvious by DemiKnute · · Score: 4, Funny

    In ten years, you can get a 120 Terabyte drive. Only one problem: What the hell would you put on it to fill it up?

    MS Windows XP 8. Duh.

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