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[News] Proprietary High-End Software Runs on GNU/Linux for DreamWorks, Imageworks

  • Subject: [News] Proprietary High-End Software Runs on GNU/Linux for DreamWorks, Imageworks
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:31:44 +0000
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Mudbox Ported to Linux for DreamWorks, Imageworks

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| DreamWorks Animation and Sony Pictures 
| Imageworks are integrating Autodesk Mudbox, 
| a digital sculpting and texture painting 
| application, into their Linux production 
| pipelines.
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http://www.animationmagazine.net/article/10869

Autodesk Collaborates With DreamWorks and Imageworks on Mudbox for Linux short 
introductory video to Autodesk Mudbox digital sculpting and texture painting software.

http://cad.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=909513

Autodesk Softimage 2010

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| platform  Linux Fedora Core 8, Windows 
| XP/Vista
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http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/reviews/index.cfm?ReviewID=1091


Recent:

DreamWorks uses Red Hat cloud to cut filmmaking costs

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| Like every other tech vendor, Red Hat Inc. wants to be seen as a cloud
| computing power. To that end, it trotted out a DreamWorks exec to discuss
| how the studio used a Red Hat Linux-based cloud to produce what it calls the
| world's first stereoscopic, 3-D animation film this year.
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http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid39_gci1367832,00.html


DreamWorks to bake 3D flicks on desert cloud

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| In a sign of the economic times, DreamWorks Animation has inked a deal with
| the New Mexico Computing Applications Center to use spare capacity to help
| render its 3D films.
|
| [...]
|
| The whole shebang runs Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and SGI's
| ProPack 5 extensions for HPC workloads. On the Linpack Fortran benchmark
| test, it has a sustained performance of 133.2 teraflops. According to
| Governor Bill Richardson's office - which made the announcement of the
| DreamWorks deal - this makes Encanto the largest non-federal supercomputer in
| the world.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/18/dreamworks_rents_cycles/


Microsoft's Allen sells DreamWorks Animation stake

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| Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has sold all of his remaining shares in
| DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc.
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5hw59xPNTP2VTQKOa5E6SagslCtkQ


Microsoft's Allen sells DreamWorks Animation stake

http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.aspx?feed=AP&date=20090213&id=9610843
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