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For rendering stuff for their movies or editing software? Or do they use something much more powerful?
Originally Posted by IlovetheChosenone ![]() Can those $5,000 cards be used for gaming or would it be pointless? ![]() |
Originally Posted by IlovetheChosenone ![]() Can those $5,000 cards be used for gaming or would it be pointless? ![]() |
During the height of production, ILM dedicated 80 percent of its total rendering capacity to Transformers 2, one time even hitting 83 percent. "We broke all the ILM records," Smith says. "Everyone else squeezed into 17 percent." How much is that? ILM's render farm has 5700 core processors, the newest of which are dual processor and quad cores (eight cores per blade), with up to 32 GB of memory per blade. In addition, the render farm can access the 2000 core processors in the artists' workstations, which ups the total core processors to 7700. As for data storage, the studio's data center currently has 500 TB online. Transformers 2 sucked up 154 TB, more than seven times the 20 TB needed for 2007's Transformers. |