Re: Render farms; was: Re: Playing can you top that

Subject: Re: Render farms; was: Re: Playing can you top that
From: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: "David Neeley" <dbneeley -at- gmail -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:34:36 -0700

Yes, they're rack-mounted Linux units. I don't know if they're multicore,
multiprocessor or both (I would guess both).

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message -----
From: "David Neeley" <dbneeley -at- gmail -dot- com>
I could easily be mistaken, but I was under the impression that
Pixar's render farm contains 1024 machines, each with multiple
multi-core chips.

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