Weta Digital Grows Cluster 209
Korgan writes "A little over 3 years after their last upgrade, Weta Digital has just added another 250 more blade servers to their render farm to help with the final renderings of King Kong. From the article: "The IBM Xeon blade servers, each with two 3.4 gigahertz processors and 8 gigabytes of memory, are housed at the New Zealand Supercomputing Centre in central Wellington. They have been added to the centre's existing bank of 1144 Intel 2.8GHz processors, boosting its power by 50 per cent to create a supercomputer with the equivalent power of nearly 15,000 PCs. The servers run the Red Hat version of the open-source Linux operating system. The purchase means the centre is back among the 100 largest supercomputing clusters in the world." And all that computing power is still available for hire when Peter Jackson isn't using it."
Clearly... (Score:5, Funny)
Blah (Score:4, Funny)
power draw (Score:5, Funny)
Re:King Kong? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:* sigh * (Score:4, Funny)
Except Jeff Bridges' acting
Contact? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Obligatory (Score:2, Funny)
In Soviet Russia, cluster grow you.
Extra-Beefy Power Supply perhaps??? (Score:3, Funny)
Power of 15,000 PCs: Enough to power a small town
Ability to do math in your head: Priceless
For everything else, there's xcalc.
Re:And to think... (Score:5, Funny)
No wonder the film was so bad.
New Zealand targeted by ONU !! (Score:2, Funny)
It appears that New Zealand is now the World n1 heat producer, the origin of that heat is currently unknown.
Well, joke aside, I hope for them than the clim won't break...
Re:Netcraft confirms it (Score:3, Funny)
Sweet! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Clearly... (Score:3, Funny)
He wanted to have a MechaGodzilla, but it was running a Sony proprietary OS.
Re:power draw (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Clearly... (Score:4, Funny)
The movie will still be a train wreck (Score:3, Funny)
Re:sheer power (Score:2, Funny)
Here all week, don't forget to tip your waitress.
Excellent! (Score:2, Funny)