Weta Digital's Render Farm Upgrade

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.

Comments

Make better movies...

[Hollinger]

I wouldn't say make more movies, I'd say make better movies.

Rules for flaming based on spelling/grammar

[hayden]

Make damn sure you don't make the same mistakes.

...without a front-page type or two?

"typo" maybe?

Is it that much to ask ...

"Is that too much to ask ..." or possibly "Is it too much to ask ..." depending on what you wanted to do with the rest of the sentence.

... of professionalism slashdot.org presents on itself.

Slashdot and professionalim in the same sentence has to be some sort of error.

You wouldn't submit a resume` that has grammatical errors on it, would you?

Surely you mean "in it".

My point? Enough with the bitching about the spelling/grammar. Most of people here aren't any better and of the remainder most don't care.

Re:*sigh*

[jerde]

It's really funny how people posting on a public forum act like it's really painful to see bad spelling and grammar.

But when isn't painful? I see it as exactly analogous to hearing a note out of tune.

I think his comment was that the actual stories on /. should be edited for correctness. Isn't that what the editors are for?

- Peter

Upgrading farms? Somebody call Blizzard...

[WIAKywbfatw]

Gee, that's one unit upgrade that Blizzard obviously forgot to include in Warcraft III.

A plough here, a grain store there, and voila, +50% to your food output. I'm surprised that nobody's thought of it before...

Re:*sigh*

[Chasuk]

I do find it painful. Not in a literal sense, of course, but I cringe in the same way that I might if I were addressed by a drunk standing too close to me, reeking of halitosis, with snot dripping from his mustache.

No, I'm not trolling, this isn't flamebait, and I'm not being elitist. I'm just pointing out that some readers do experience a visceral response to poor spelling and grammar.

Grammar doesn't have to be perfect, or I would never post. Spelling is a nearly impossible chore for some: it is acceptable, for them, if dyslexia or a similar disorder is their excuse. However, poor spelling and grammar, if due to laziness or indifference, does offend me.

Further, from experience, I have seldom read a thought worth reading that was contained within a syntactical nightmare.

I've been reading Slashdot for years, and I have noticed that the literacy levels - and levels of intelligibility and thoughtfulness - have declined as it has become a destination visited by more people.

Has anyone else noticed this deterioration? It has gotten so bad that I'm now reading www.kuo5hin.org more often than Slashdot.

Now that this message has rambled entirely off-topic, can anyone recommend intelligent, literate forums with a high volume of traffic? They _don't_ have to be tech-oriented.

All suggestions welcome.