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Weta Digital Supercomputer For Hire
sushi writes "NZ's Stuff news site is reporting: 'Peter Jackson's special effects shop Weta Digital has teamed ... to establish a world-class supercomputing facility in Wellington which will be rented out to clients worldwide.' Currently comprising 504 IBM blade servers, each of which contains two 2.8 Gigahertz Intel Xeon processors, 6 Gigabytes of memory and 40 Gigabytes of storage, and ranked 80th in the top 500 supercomputers, they are intending to upgrade into the top 10. Also covered at the Australian Financial Review."
Are we going to see a "Meet the Feebles part 2" or what?
1. Yes, but do they run linux?
2. Imagine a beowulf cluster of... oh.
Now for actual discussion.
So now instead of curing diseases, finding large mersenne primes or discovering inteligent life forms we can get hyper realisitc renderings of Gollum's eyelash crust. Spectacular.
Maybe Slashdot should rent the machine to keep track of stories with similar content...
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Bleah! Heh heh heh... BLEAH BLEAH!!! Ha ha ha ha...
my precious.....
Thanks to WETA, now I can run Doom 3!
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Where can I rent an analog one?
Imagine Peter Jackson making a cluster of Beowulf movies using those...
a world in progress...
Missle trajectories: supercomputers can help design accurate missle systems, and missle defense systems. See 1 for why this should be restricted.
;)
Missile trajectories? All you need to calculate that stuff is a Playstation2... Quick! We need to keep these "supercomputers" inside honest nations too
How about using all those cpus as Distcc nodes!
(Go Gentoo!)
If someone paid to rent a supercomputer for a few hours to break your SHA1 SSL keys, you've got bigger problems than just your keys being broken :)
Yep. Enough for Doom3, or Longhorn. Possibly even enough to run doom3 IN longhorn!!
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with your budget you probably could play for excatly 1 second...
Well it's called 'Brain Dead' down here, so I'd suggest either 'Brain Deader' or 'Dubya'.
"Headshot Barry! It's the only true stopper!"
Whack!
Don't even say it!
Free Software: Like love, it grows best when given away.
That's silly, there's never "enough pr0n."
C'mon, if you're not going to read the article, at least read the friggin' Slashdot story. If even that is too much for you, please consider at least reading the headline.
But yeah, renting it out seems like a smart idea.
In Soviet Russia Mega-Cluster rents you!
Actually they've decided not to use any digital effects for King Kong. Peter Jackson will be wearing a gorilla suit.
Why do you think they're renting out the cluster?
Game... blouses.
We will now truly be able to figure out how many New Zealanders it takes to change a light bulb.
Just one, but he won't change the bulb - he'll fix it using bind-a-twine and 8-guage fencing wire.
(Disclaimer: exiled Kiwi)
This is where the serious fun begins.
Read this
:-P
"Weta Digital Supercomputer For Hire"
as
"Weta Digital Supercomputer On Fire"
Thought, whoa, finally some big news on Slashdot!
But no... Anyone willing to go with me to put them on fire for some hot Beowulf cluster action?
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
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We're using it to render architectural fly-through movies
Give us a link to one of these movies and we would be happy to SlashdotYouNow
Do they use Tolkien Ring?
~D
They tried, but they discovered an error in the protocol whereby the one who held the token wouldn't let it go.
=)
Lost at C:>. Found at C.