On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:28:26 -0400
JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
>
> yep, a lot of the studios are using Linux clusters as "render farms" I
> think they call them. The days of SGI being the wizards are fading...
This from the Beowulf site:
Beowulf Systems are already being used for ...
* Computationally intensive activities: optimization problems, stock
trend analysis, complex pattern matching, medical research, genetics
research, image rendering
* Scientific Computing/Scientific Research:
engineering/simulations, 3D modeling, finite element analysis, fluid
dynamics, PCB/ASIC routing
* Large-scale processing of data: data mining, complex data searches
results generation, manipulating large amounts of data, data archival
and sorting
* Web/Internet needs: Web farms, application serving,
transaction serving, calculation serving, data serving
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