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PipelineFX And IBM Enable Power Savings On Linux-based Render Farms
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| PipelineFX's has integrated IBM's Extreme Cluster Administration Toolkit
| (xCAT) server management framework into Qube! software to provide energy
| efficiencies in Linux-based render farms.
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http://www.vfxworld.com/?sa=adv&code=3631a5a1&atype=news&id=24347
IBM urges virtualization for datacenters
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| The company was moved from 250 individual Linux servers to two IBM z/9
| mainframes. Volkswagen went from 76 individual Linux servers down to six,
| according to Armitage.
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/08/11/IBM-urges-virtualization-for-datacenters_1.html
Yesterday:
IBM sees no alternative to Linux
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| Sutor also believes that the open operating system will make important
| environmental contributions, for example by reducing energy consumption
| through server consolidation, virtualisation, load balancing and more
| efficient resource management.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/114094
Recent:
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
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| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
Hollywood, Linux, and CinePaint at FOSDEM 2008
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| At first, studios had no choice but to develop Linux applications in house.
| The film industry has millions of lines of Linux code, both desktop
| applications and server pipelines. Studio Linux programmers write code in
| C++, Python, Perl, and Java. What does all this secret proprietary Linux code
| do? And, why do they do parallel programming with grid computing? How does
| the film industry use renderfarms with thousands of CPUs?
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http://linuxgazette.net/147/rowe.html
Related:
DreamWorks wins an award for its innovative use of Linux
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| Behind that effort sits Ed Leonard, chief technology officer at DreamWorks,
| who has been recognized for his work with an Annie Award for "promoting the
| Linux open system for animation in animation studios and gaming software
| development."
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9865829-16.html
Linux Goes Hollywood With New Terra Soft Film Rendering Tool
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| Y-Film is a product formed from two separate applications. The first is a
| cluster construction suite supported by Terra Soft's Y-HPC platform. The
| second is the Artist Productivity and Asset Management Tools developed by
| Scott Frankel, president and VFX supervisor at Circle-S Studios and the lead
| developer of Y-Film. The tool set runs on x86 Linux, Power Linux and Mac OS
| X.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/60254.html
Linux in Hollywood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=636VZ_R-NVs
Studios Using Linux
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| * Digital Domain
| * Disney
| * Double Negative
| * DreamWorks Animation
| * Flash Film Works
| * Hammerhead
| * Industrial Light & Magic
| * Moving Picture Company
| * Pixar
| * Rhythm & Hues
| * Sony Pictures
| * Tippett
| * Weta Digital
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http://linuxmovies.org/studios.html
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| "Linux is the default operating [system] on desktops and servers at major
| animation and visual effects studios, with maybe 98 percent [or more]
| penetration," CinePaint Project Manager Robin Rowe told LinuxInsider.
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http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/57300.html
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