[Gllug] Harry Potter, Lord Of The Rings, Linux

[Jim Bailey]

Hi all,

there is an article here covering Dream Works use of SGI and Linux boxes.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4803

Peace Jim

On Friday, December 7, 2001, at 04:42 PM, David Damerell wrote:

> On Friday, 7 Dec 2001, Martyn Drake wrote:
>> As for Linux in visual effects - were they not used as early as 1997 in
>> James Cameron's Titanic?  I seem to remember something about a render
>> farm made up of loads of Alpha boxes running Linux.
>
> 600 headless boxes for crunch power, yes, although the artists used
> about 100 SGI workstations to actually sit at.
>
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