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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 ;)
Haven't the Linux zealots been claiming Pixar has been using Linux for the last 5 years or so?
Doesn't same lame ass distro even name it's releases after characters owned by Disney Corporation?
You silly wanks.
It's GNU/Linux, not "Linux". Linux is not an operating system but a kernel.
Please try to help correct this wide spread error. Thank you.
Ben.
ben at digitalsimplicity dot com
Not even Steve Jobs believes his own hype about AltiVec being the holy grail of computing. This is not a troll!
"Only in their dreams can men truly be free 'twas always thus, and always thus will be."
--Tom Schulman
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.
Lack of eloquence does not denote lack of intelligence, though they often coincide.
shut up, bitch. you got some cheap mod points now just shut the fuck up, you damn faggot.