On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Ross Archer wrote:
> I'm curious now. If they're dumping all this SGI gear,
> what on earth are they replacing it with?
>
> Surely they still need ultra-high-performance multi-CPU
> systems to render and animate with. Or not?
>
> Maybe it's the little shops doing the dumping, which are
> hurting for work enough that SGI is just too expensive, and
> they make do with inferior tools (e.g. PCs and PC software)
> to reduce expenses?
In case you haven't noticed, quite a few post-production studios have been
replacing expensive SGI gear with farms of PCs running linux and whatever
rendering software is available. It saves tons on cost, and can get the
same job done faster. PC's provide about the best price/performance
ratio of any available hardware...
One example is Dreamworks:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6103
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