21 Feb
2007
21 Feb
'07
9:25 p.m.
On 21 Feb 2007 at 22:26, Jim Leonard wrote:
Related note: All throughout the early to mid 1990s,
Pixar standarized
solely on SparcStation 20s for their renderfarm. Why not a more
powerful system, or a cheaper system? Because they claimed, due to form
factor, it was the most number of CPUs they could fit into a room.
I seem to recall an article that mentioned that the effects on
"Titanic" were rendered using a room/closet full of Peecees (Dell, I
think)... Something about the hardware (running Linux, IIRC) cost
less than $50K.
I may have all or some of this wrong, but I think the article was
published in IEEE Computer some years back.
Cheers,
Chuck