Lord of the Rings director buys more blades

[Nostromo]

KIWI DIRECTOR r Peter Jackson's production outfit Weta Digital has just splashed out on 250 more blade servers.

The IBM Xeon blade servers, each with two 3.4GHz processors and 8GB of memory, and housed at the New Zealand Supercomputing Centre in central Wellington, will cost about a million pounds.

Jackson spent a fortune on blades when he was making his epic Lord of the Rings movie. A spokesperson for Weta said the servers were needed to complete postproduction work on Peter Jackson's King Kong, due out in January.

The centre has a bank of 1144 Intel 2.8GHz processors, and the new batch of kit will boost its power by 50 percent to create a supercomputer with the equivalent power of nearly 15,000 PCs. The whole lot runs on Red Hat. µ

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=26859

[snoopy369]

Peter Jackson, the new George Lucas... now with 50% less insanity

[Ted Striker]

Blade architecture

[BeBMan]

King Kong

[reds4ever]

Red Hat

[Agathon]

New Zealand filmmakers showing everyone else how to do it.

[duke o' york]

Geek threads.

[MarkG]

from the same page

Jackson went to Kapiti College, in Paraparaumu. Before he left, the school invested in state of the art PC technology, Commodore Pets. There were ten of them and they were laid out in a series network around a single duel floppy drive. True distributed computing.

[Theben]

Originally posted by Agathon
New Zealand filmmakers showing everyone else how to do it.

sh@gging sheep

[OzzyKP]

Swords



(that's what we're talking about, right?)

[Footie Mad]

He just needs them to play Doom 3.