Mother Fuckin’ Star Wars
As if I wasn’t looking forward to the upcoming “Return of the King” (the final installment of the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy) enough, this article about the computer power being used by the digital effects company handling the CGI for the film is pretty amazing.
“Peter Jackson’s special-effects company Weta Digital is reaching deep into its chest of high-tech sword and sorcery to complete the final instalment of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Return of the King.
“It has just taken delivery of 588 IBM blade servers, each with two 2.8 gigahertz Intel Xeon processors…
“…the seven racks of blade servers, when added to Weta’s existing 15-rack server cluster, would make up the largest Intel-based high- performance computer site in the world with more than 2000 linked processors.
“The cluster is used to render the frames drawn by the animators, adding texture and colour and meshing it in with the live footage.”
Let’s see if I can put this into any sort of perspective. Hrmmm. Fuck it, I can’t. It’s much faster than the piece of shit you’re typing on now.
