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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. huh? by FS1 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The pizza-box sized IBM blade servers each incorporate dual 2.8 gigahertz Intel Xeon processors and 6 megabytes of memory."

    umm check your stats there

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  2. Wow, talk about capacity. by oGMo · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Six whole megabytes? That's like, ten times 640K, and everyone knows that's all anyone needs!

    Did the article mean 6 gigabytes? Or a 6MB cache, or what?

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  3. 6 megabytes by circletimessquare · · Score: 0, Redundant

    6 megabytes ought to be enough for anyone

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  4. Not 6 gigabytes, or megabytes by Mixel · · Score: 0, Redundant

    6 [gigabytes?]

    To do that, they'd have to be 64 bit machines and I dont think they are. Maybe it was originally intended to read '600 megabytes'.

  5. Wise words by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The linked story says 6 megabytes of memory, we don't believe 'em.

    I don't blame you, why would anyone want more than 640k?