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Weta Digital Grows Cluster
Korgan writes "A little over 3 years after their last upgrade, Weta Digital has just added another 250 more blade servers to their render farm to help with the final renderings of King Kong. From the article: "The IBM Xeon blade servers, each with two 3.4 gigahertz processors and 8 gigabytes of memory, are housed at the New Zealand Supercomputing Centre in central Wellington. They have been added to the centre's existing bank of 1144 Intel 2.8GHz processors, boosting its power by 50 per cent to create a supercomputer with the equivalent power of nearly 15,000 PCs. The servers run the Red Hat version of the open-source Linux operating system. The purchase means the centre is back among the 100 largest supercomputing clusters in the world." And all that computing power is still available for hire when Peter Jackson isn't using it."
Clearly we need a Beowulf cluster to slay this gigantic King Kong cluster!
Many Bothans died to bring you this sig.
That's nothing. The people arrested in the story earlier today had the computing power of 100,000 personal computers. Beat that!
that's why the lights dim in Wellington when the cluster is rendering
Things have improved since TRON
Except Jeff Bridges' acting
No wonder the film was so bad.