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Pixar Eclipses Sun with Linux/Intel

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the clusters-i-desire dept.

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 ;)

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  1. Re:Why not Apple? by Master+Bait · · Score: 0, Troll

    Not even Steve Jobs believes his own hype about AltiVec being the holy grail of computing. This is not a troll!

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  2. Re:I was under the impression ... by sean23007 · · Score: 0, Troll

    It is cheaper for them to not use Macs in their render farm, because much of the cost of those computers goes to its image and design and case, and it is designed to go on a desk, not in a cluster. Making a 1024 cpu cluster is much more conducive to Intel than Apple, because Intel sells cpus and Apple sells the whole system. They don't want a whole system.

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