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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. Lamenting the fall of pizzabox desktops by baryon351 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Mildly off topic, but I seriously miss good pizzabox desktop boxes. Something simple, plain, fast, and with room for a couple of PCI slots on a riser card.

    The world needs more of them

  2. Re:6 megabytes? by nb+caffeine · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ugh. enough already. shouldnt it be:
    1: 640k
    2: ???
    3: PROFIT!

    or
    imagine a beowulf cluster of 640k!
    or
    litigous 640k
    or
    goat640k.cx
    or
    in soviet russia, 640k needs no more than you!

    maybe i read slashdot too much, but i just see the same crap moderated "funny" all the time...

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