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David Autumns
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Disney Renders Its New CGI Film on a 55,000-Core Supercomputer.
http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/18/disney-big-hero-6/

maybe they could lend it to us once the movie is complete

Or maybe the WCG could be used for that initial load test

I can dream
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Re: Disney Renders Its New CGI Film on a 55,000-Core Supercomputer.
Quite the system, uses 1.25 megawatts of power. Anyone want to foot that bill ?
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Re: Disney Renders Its New CGI Film on a 55,000-Core Supercomputer.
Quite the system, uses 1.25 megawatts of power. Anyone want to foot that bill ?
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that's even more than mine! lol!
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Re: Disney Renders Its New CGI Film on a 55,000-Core Supercomputer.
Psssh...we utilize 150,000 cores average continuously here on WCG.
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Re: Disney Renders Its New CGI Film on a 55,000-Core Supercomputer.
And the trailer didn't impress me.
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Re: Disney Renders Its New CGI Film on a 55,000-Core Supercomputer.
...and here in the UK ... we don't have a spare 1.25MW of power biggrin
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