Re: Pixar Render Farm
Neil Griffin <[email protected]>
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From http://sunsite.uakom.sk/sunworldonline/swol-11-1995/swol-11-pixar.html "Toy Story" is also something of a coup for Sun Microsystems. The movie's final image rendering was accomplished on a "farm" of 87 dual-processor and 30 quad-processor 100-MHz SPARCstation 20s -- representing more computing power than 300 Cray 1's. "There is more computer power applied to this film than [to] any film in history," Catmull said. I presume the 100MHz units where ROSS HyperSparcs... No wonder there was some serious air-con. More sauna than sun ;-). griffo Maarten Deen wrote: > Ben Lewis wrote: > >> Hi Folks >> >> I found this image on the web and thought you might enjoy it. >> >> The Sun render farm used by Pixar for Toy Story :- >> >> http://www.ipcress.net/images/Pixar_Photo5.jpg >> > > Nice... > > What do we see there: a load of pizzaboxen (most likeley Sparc 20?), each with > a 411 case (two on a shelf), a SS1000 with SSA centerbottom. > And how many? 14 pizza's on a stack, 7 stacks visible, that makes 100 systems. > That's truly a Sun room. > > Maarten >