Weta Digital's Render Farm Upgrade

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday July 16, 2002 @02:50PM 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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Does anyone know how to compare these? by NeMon'ess · 2002-07-16 15:01 · Score: 1, Troll

Since there are all kinds of benchmarks, which would be most appropriate here? I'm thinking heavy fpu performance. Most gaming sites only compare single processor performance. Can anyone dig up a benchmark of a dual P4 of 2.2GHz or thereabouts? Then compare to the P3s. I'm guessing this more than doubled their capacity.