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CR6
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Canada
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 Posted - 02/16/2003 : 01:05:57 AM
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Intel issued an interesting press release several days ago that Steve Jobs' Pixar Animation Studios are actually going with Intel CPUs for their new RenderFarm. Check this:Pixar's new RenderFarm, used to create the digital images for each frame of animation in its movies, will consist of 1024 Intel® Xeon™ processors inside of eight new RackSaver BladeRack supercomputing clusters running Pixar's own RenderMan® software. The RenderFarm features two terabytes of memory and 60 terabytes of disk space. Each Intel Xeon processor at 2.8 GHz is about five times faster than the older RISC-based processors in Pixar's outgoing RenderFarm. Pixar will use them for their next film releases "The Incredibles" (Holiday 2004) and "Cars" (Holiday 2005).
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Pixar Uses 1024 Xeons for RenderFarm
