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Pixar's Render Farm

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382 points brundolf | 1 comments | 02 Jan 21 19:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.347s | source
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bluedino ◴[02 Jan 21 20:22 UTC] No.25616123[source]▶
I like the picture of the 100+ SPARCstation render farm for the first Toy Story

https://mobile.twitter.com/benedictevans/status/766822192197...

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erk__ ◴[02 Jan 21 21:22 UTC] No.25616659[source]▶
This reminds me of one of the first FreeBSD press releases. [0]

> FreeBSD Used to Generate Spectacular Special Effects

For the then upcoming movie The Matrix

> Manex Visual Effects used 32 Dell Precision 410 Dual P-II/450 Processor systems running FreeBSD as the core CG Render Farm.

[0]: https://www.freebsd.org/news/press-rel-1.html

edit: added that it was for The Matrix.

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1. ksec ◴[03 Jan 21 18:02 UTC] No.25623518[source]▶
Wow. I assume for Rendering Farm it is all Linux now?