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The Data-Crunching Powerhouse Behind 'Avatar' (datacenterknowledge.com)
24 points by 1SockChuck on Dec 22, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



All the big name studios now use Linux for the farm, this is one market where Linux has come to utterly dominate.

Ironic then that the final product is so heavily DRM'ed that you can't easily view it without breaking some laws if you're a free Linux user :)


During the Lord of the Rings, they transitioned largely over to Linux for nearly the entire setup. That transition involved a lot of custom software, so it's probably still mostly Linux.


I notice that they didn't bother to say (or deliberately left out, at the orders of their corporate overlords) what operating system(s) this computing behemoth runs.


According to this, it's Linux: http://www.top500.org/system/10042


Kubuntu




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