Re: Pixar using G4s &G5s?

Hmm. According to another (old) press release, it looks Pixar had plans 
to optimize for the G5:

	EMERYVILLE, CA, June 24th, 2003 -  At  WWDC, Apple® announced the new 
Power Mac® G5 featuring the  world's first 64-bit desktop processor. 
... We have benchmarked PhotoRealistic RenderMan on Apple's new Power 
Mac G5 and have found the performance of the G5 to be impressive. We 
are considering a full release of our software for the G5, depending on 
customer demand and other issues.


The rest of the press release mentions a beta program for the software 
for current customers. It's not clear whether that version is 64-bit 
native, however; it's simply described as developed "for the G5".

-Jason


On Feb 26, 2004, at 5:23 AM, johan aberg wrote:

>
> Pixar just released a 64-bit build of PRMan. Linux only, as far as I 
> can tell.
> But that doesn't mean they don't have a native 64-bit OSX version 
> inhouse.
>
>> From the press release:
>
> February 17, 2004 - Pixar's RenderMan® Pro Server 11.5.3 for  64-bit 
> Linux
> platforms is now available. The renderer can now handle  much larger 
> scenes
> than was previously possible by taking advantage  of the increased 
> memory and
> file sizes available on these systems.
>
>
> The x86-64 chip architecture is featured on processors like the  AMD 
> Opteron
> and Athlon64, and also on forthcoming products from  Intel. When a 
> 32/64-bit
> operating system is installed on these  systems, they can run standard 
> 32-bit
> applications as well as those  like RenderMan Pro Server that have 
> been rebuilt
> with native 64-bit  support. This release of RenderMan Pro Server for 
> x86-64
> Linux  requires a GCC-3.3.1-compatible runtime environment.
>
> johan
>
> --- Stephen <kru_tch-FFYn/[email protected]> wrote:
>> Good day Folks,
>>
>> On another e-mail list I frequent, a poster (who said they just 
>> finished
>> doing some work at Pixar), suggested that Pixar is full of G4s and 
>> G5s.
>>
>> Is this accurate, have they moved from Linux to Macintosh? While I
>> realize that Jobs is something of an entity over there, I find it hard
>> for one to justify an ROE/TCO for Apple hardware. Am I off base here
>> entirely?
>>
>> Comments?
>>
>> -- 
>> Stephen
>>
>>
>>
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