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Rent A Bit Of Weta Digital

Posted by timothy on from the route-bits-through-mordor dept.

An anonymous reader writes linking to this story at stuff.co.nz, excerpting: "Five hundred powerful computers used by Weta Digital to help create the special effects for the Lord of the Rings may be put up for hire.... The pizza-box sized IBM blade servers each incorporate dual 2.8 gigahertz Intel Xeon processors and 6 [gigabytes?] of memory." Update: 03/22 07:08 GMT by S : The linked story says 6 megabytes of memory, we don't believe 'em.

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  1. Imagine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    A beowulf .. oh wait ...

  2. Cost? by nb+caffeine · · Score: 5, Funny

    What would this cost? Do they charge something like cpu/hours or the like? Will the average person have the ability to rent some clock cycles? I just want something that will be able to run doom3 when it comes out.

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  3. Pizza-delivery! by The_Ace666 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now where can I find a pizza-delivery company to get one of these babies delivered to my door?

    1. Re:Pizza-delivery! by DigiShaman · · Score: 5, Funny

      Either way, they'll be hot! (pun intended)

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  4. Wow by KU_Fletch · · Score: 4, Funny

    A whole 6 megabytes of memory?! Way to beat up my 486.

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  5. Update by hlopez · · Score: 5, Funny

    Update: 03/22 07:08 GMT by S
    -we don't believe 'YOU-

  6. I'm signing up right now! by teamhasnoi · · Score: 4, Funny
    I'm going to re-fake the moon landing, but do it right this time! No numbers on rocks, no waving flag, or overlapped crosshairs.

    I may have to re-release the Mars landing too, depending on how well they did...

    Beagle was a great idea, btw. Spend the money and then oops! no mission to render. Sheer genius.

  7. Re:One thing to say... by MagicDude · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, we need something nerdier and more useless, like the biggest prime number ever.

  8. Re:Distributed.net... by bobthemonkey13 · · Score: 4, Funny
    Better yet, let's make a program that makes you pay, has ads, and forces you to donate CPU cycles.

    We could call it KaZaA.

  9. LAN Connection ? by ultranova · · Score: 5, Funny

    Surely they used Token Ring to connect them ?

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  10. Nasty hobbits. They tricked us! Thieves! by pariahdecss · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nasty fat hobbit probably sold the extra RAM to buy Twinkies(R)

  11. Re:I'd like to run ray tracing real time on this by troon · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm rather tired of waiting for graphics to progress to the level they will be in in the year 2010 or so.

    Just give it six years or so, and you should see the improvements you are waiting for.

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  12. Sell 'em on e-bay by GloomE · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wouldn't they make more by selling them as (framed) collector's items?
    Blade 1 of 500: current bid $1(insert zeros here).

  13. Re:I'd like to run ray tracing real time on this by Viceice · · Score: 4, Funny

    you know, if you ONLY wanted so SEE something like that, you could go out doors and look for a field covered in sunflowers.

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