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Pixar Eclipses Sun with Linux/Intel
lieutenant writes "Pixar Animation Studios is replacing servers from Sun in its render farm with eight new blade servers from Rackspace. In all, the blade system contains 1,024 Intel 2.8GHz Xeon processors, and it runs the open-source Linux operating system. Pixar has ported its Renderman software to run on Linux." I'd love to see their electric bill ;)
I am actually scared, to imagine a beowulf cluster of these.
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With that type of processing power, they should be able to calculate to infinity...and beyond.
"I'd love to see their electric bill "
Dude, they render stuff... would you not prefer to see that...
Sorry naive marketing victim but macs are not to be used for real work.
Trendy wanna be chic geeks pony up the cash for an overpriced mac system so they can seem cool.
In the same way that Sun knows you shouldn't actually use java, Apple knows you shouldn't actually use macs.
I mean do you think the Board of Directors of McDonalds actually eat Bigmacs and shit for lunch? Hell no they go out to 5 star restraunts. Just because you get rich selling trash to suckers doesn't me you actually wanna use it yourself! duh!
For around $25,000 you too can make Pixar quality movies
1) Download renderman from https://renderman.pixar.com/
2) Learn how to use it.
3) ???
4) Profit!
Eureka! The missing link is "...plus the several million $ for the creative talent!"!
> > For around $25,000 you too can make Pixar quality movies
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And if that's too expensive you can forgo the creative talent and make Star Wars prequels!
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
All the same, if I were hit by a $3200 monthly electrical bill I'd keel over just as dead as if it were 3.2million :)
Tux already had a role in TS2 as Wheezy.
The only natural base is e. Man arbitrarily likes whole numbers, nature like real numbers, and e is everywhere.
Therefore, ln (1024) = 6.931471806... which is not an even number.
I suggest therefore that an even number of processors for the render farm is either
e^6 = 403.4287935 or
e^7 = 1,096.633158.
Of course, Intel is wedded to the whole numbers of processors thing, which utterly thwarts mathematical logic and correctness. Their site also runs on IIS, so what other foolishness can you expect? Heathens.
Fire and Meat. Yummy.
... I guess we know which one you are.
This cluster is so powerful, when they try to render anything with it, all they get is "42" on the console.
...or matrix sequels.
That was classic intercourse!
1982 - born in Nebula - incorporated with 4 employees
1984 - protostar - NFS is introduced
1995 - main sequence begins - Java Released
1996 - red giant - Using Java technology, NASA engineers develop an interactive application allowing anyone on the Internet to be a "virtual participant" in the space administration's groundbreaking mission to Mars.
SUPERNOVA - Sun battles MS over Java and Windows
Blackhole - TODAY!
References:
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/coinfo/history.html
You haven't replaced THAT Pentium machine yet?
Salvation Army sure ain't ready for the battlefield.
ooops! Here you go: http://tipatat.com/artworks/eclipse.jpg
Nine women cannot make a baby in one month, but nine women can make nine babies in nine months.
.NET allow for nine women to make a baby in one month?
Won't Microsoft's soon-to-be-released BabyMaker
I thought I saw a press release about it a while back but can't seem to find a link now.
Nine women cannot make a baby in one month, but nine women can make nine babies in nine months
Actually, I think it takes nine women and a man, but I may not be up-to-date on the latest technology.
I just eclipsed Windows with Linux on my home system.
I just eclipsed my old toothbrush with a new one.
I just eclipsed the shit in my ass-crack with toilet paper.
Now, don't I sound FUCKING STUPID? Yes, I do.
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but when are they going to spend some money and teach their animators how to model a human that doesn't look like a puppet?