Pqluglist- 35,000-Core Ubuntu Server Farm Renders Avatar

[Parksville-Qualicum Linux Users group mail list]

"They have a 2 Petabyte disk array, 10gbps networking, and 35,000 cores (4,000+ 
HP blades) in their data center, and still it takes 48 hours to render some of 
their graphic sequences"

"According to Paul, Ubuntu is at the core of all of this, running on all of the 
rendering nodes, and 90% of the desktops at Weta Digital."


http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2010/01/39000-core-ubuntu-cluster-renders.html


Thanks to George from COWLUG for this. http://cowlug.org/