Hi, Pixar Animation Studios (NASDAQ: PIXR) who brought the world "Monsters Inc" and "Toy Story" is switching from SUN Microsystem to Intel. [1]
The Emeryville, Calif.-based film studio is replacing servers from Sun in its render farm--a bank of servers that fuses artists' images into finished film frames--with eight new blade servers from Racksaver (http://www.racksaver.com/). In all, the blade system contains 1,024 Intel 2.8GHz Xeon processors, and it runs the open-source Linux operating system. Pixar installed the Rackspace system over the previous six months, along with porting its Renderman software to Linux will be using it to develop its next film, The Incredibles, which will likely hit theaters in 2004. For Pixar this is a complete migration to Intel/Linux platform, as it moves away from RISC-based SUN Microsystems server. In doing so, PIXAR joins the ranks of other leading animation/movie studios in Hollywood like -- Industrial Lights & Magic[2], DreamWorks [3] and Sony Pictures' Imageworks, all of whom have shifted or gradually migrating to Linux Operating system --indra. [1] "Pixar switches from Sun to Intel" http://news.com.com/2100-1001-983898.html [2] "Star Wars" effects studio shifts to Intel " http://news.com.com/2100-1001-945310.html [3] "HP, Linux snag DreamWorks deal" http://news.com.com/2100-1001-825967.html -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
