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Weta Digital Supercomputer For Hire

Posted by timothy on from the hey-sailor dept.

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."

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  1. Dupe? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Rent a Bit of Weta Digital

  2. top 500 ! by phreakv6 · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is the top 500

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