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New Lucas Headquarters To Open in San Francisco

Posted by timothy on from the empire-building dept.

Afroloop writes "This article (with pics) in the SFGate covers the opening of the new Lucas Headquarters in San Francisco's famous Presidio. It will house up to 1,500 employees by next fall. From the article: 'The Presidio will feature 600 miles of fiber-optic cable. 4,000 processors and 150 terabytes of storage -- massive computing power and speed, with the ability to work 10 times faster than they can today.'"

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  1. Leather Pants by flood6 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So San Franscisco is going to solidify it's position as a Meca for those "outside the mainstream"?

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  2. greebo shot first! by discogravy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    don't sell George Lucas short: he made his old movies suck too.

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  3. Hrm by digitalsushi · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I have 1.1 terrabytes in my computer, it's worth about 400 bucks. The next number that'll get my jaw to drop is seeing someone with a petabyte kicking around.

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  4. Re:Faster or Better? by LurkerXXX · · Score: 2, Insightful
    It will house up to 1,500 employees by next fall.
    150 terabytes of storage

    At first that sounded really impressive. Then I thought, I'm a geek who has two hard drives in my home desktop with a total of 500 GB of storage. Lucas is into storage of huge movie image sequences, and they only have 100 GB/employee of storage. Somehow I'd have thought they'd have more.

  5. 10x faster by locnar42 · · Score: 2, Insightful
    They have 1500 employees and 4000 processors and they claim it'll be a 10x speed increase? So, they have ~400 processors right now? I'll go on a limb and say that the processors are faster in the new computers, so it's more likely ~800 processors. At best, every other employee has a computer?

    Maybe that 4000 processors is just a render farm or something? Overall it's not that impressive, but if all those stats are just a render farm then it's not too bad.

  6. Re:A give away of public resources? by NeuroManson · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Wait a minute, the Presidio was paid for with tax payers dollars, and closed eventually (doing not much more than taking up prime real estate). So Lucas, a private citizen, purchases it.

    Meanwhile, there's oodles of cold war era nuclear silos that were paid for with tax payers dollars, which private citizens can purchase (for a song considering).

    Slashdot readers are fine with the latter, so what exactly is so wrong with the former? Is it because Lucas is rich? Hell, I bet the average Slashdotter is far more well off than I am, can I hold grudges against anyone making $20K a year or more?

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  7. Re:Mixing SciFi -- The Presido is Home of Star Fle by earthbound+kid · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Heh, why do you think the backstory of Babylon 5 is that San Francisco was nuked sometime in the undefined past?