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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. One thing to say... by linuxkrn · · Score: 5, Interesting

    seti@home!

    1. Re:One thing to say... by CGP314 · · Score: 5, Interesting

      folding@home

      I used to run seti@home instead of folding@home, but then one day I realized I needed to switch. While finding extraterrestrial life would be the most important development in human history to date, the chances of finding it in my lifetime are very small.

      On the other hand, the chances of my getting cancer or any of the other of the diseases folding@home works on is very great. Plus, if folding@home cures any of these diseases, it will extend my life and increase the chances that extraterrestrials will be found within my lifetime.


      -Colin

  2. Renderfarms online - old news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Posting anon as I have an interest in some of these companies :
    http://www.respower.com/ - 250+ machines (~500GHz), 250GB ram
    http://www.rendercore.com/ - 700 machines
    http://www.render-it.co.uk/ - 82 cpus (131GHz), 82GB ram)

    The only 'interesting' thing here is that it's WETA's farm. Other than that, I doubt they offer the wide selection of software (lest they struck deals lately) not to mention field experience with 'oddball' files.

    Good luck to them, though