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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. Re:*sigh* by drsmithy · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    For those of us who learnt language from books instead of from listening to TV, it *is*. As another poster said, it's as painful as listening to out of tune music.

  2. Re:Karma info loss by SwedishChef · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I actually emailed them about this and they replied saying only that the change was "necessary" and that the karma is still there, just that no one can see it.

    Yes, yes... we know it's off-topic but since no one sees the karma any more, who cares?

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  3. Slashdot hypocrisy by jbf · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    RIAA/MPAA: bad
    Geek MPAA movies (eg LOTR): good
    Linux: good
    Using Linux to further the MPAA: good

    </karmaburn>

  4. Re:*sigh* by tapiwa · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    one Xenon is bad spelling....

    two is gross negligence on the part of the editors.

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  5. beowulf cluster? by tapiwa · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    imagine a beowulf cluster of these!!

    sorry, couldn't resist

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