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

[David Damerell]

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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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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