| "Star Wars" effects studio shifts to Intel [CNET] |
Jul. 22, 2002
Writing at CNET, Michael Kanellos reports on a trend emerging in business away 'from RISC workstations to more standardized workstations.' Kanellos takes a look at Industrial Light and Magic's move to Intel based-machines and Linux . . .
" . . . The technical effects studio has switched from using RISC-Unix workstations from SGI to using Intel-based Dell systems running Linux for the bulk of its animation and special effects work, said Cliff Plumer, ILM's chief technology officer. As part of the conversion, ILM recently deployed 600 Pentium 4 workstations . . . "
" . . . In 'Shrek', for instance, DreamWorks studio used Linux/Intel servers to render the skeletal images for the movie, but then used SGI-RISC workstations for much of the final animation. For 'Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron', an animated film starring the voice of actor Matt Damon as a horse, DreamWorks used more than 200 HP workstations . . . "
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