So Pixar bought a great big glob of dual Xeon blades a while back. Their render farm is thus now Linux on x86 (which is a change for them).<br><br>The Xserves weren't even in the running because they ...

RenderMan 27 brings XPU final-frame rendering, deep compositing, Solaris integration, and VFX Reference Platform 2024 compliance to production pipelines.

Although it’s only a small purchase in the larger scheme of things, much is being made of Pixar Animation Studios’ switch from an Sun-based render farm to an ...

Pixar Animation Studios, which brought the world "Monsters Inc." and "Toy Story," is switching from Sun Microsystems to Intel, as the melodrama in the server market heats up. The Emeryville, ...

Does Pixar have to be using Azure for its own movies for it to be interesting that Pixar is using Azure to run RenderMan on? It's not. It would be a deliciously ironic thing if it turned out that ...

Challengers Will Have Access To The ‘AMD Creator Cloud’ Powered by AMD EPYC™ Processors with AMD 3D V-Cache™ Technology on Microsoft Azure, Helping to Fulfill Their Creative Dreams SANTA CLARA, Calif.

Our friends over at SlashFilm just featured a video today from CNET (dated January of 2007) that gives us an inside look at LucasFilm's Renderfarm, albeit an old one. If you don't know, a renderfarm ...

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