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Llewlladdwr

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Tue Jan-22-08 11:52 PM
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300. Do you have any actual numbers to back that up?

Or are we just making random assertions? 'Cause that's fun. Watch!

Most major motion picture studios are now using non-Apple hardware and software for their computer generated effects. And I have an example! Square Pictures animated Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within using a server farm consisting of "four SGI Origin 2000 series servers, four Onyx2 systems, and 167 Octane workstations. The basic movie was rendered at a home-made render farm which consisted of 960 Pentium III-933MHz workstations". (Courtesy of wikipedia, full article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy:_The_Spirits_Within ).

Cool huh?

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