[CLUG] meeting

[Michael Field - NC Systems Server Engineering - SUN Ireland]

Hi,

Do you know anymore about this. It's interesting that Sun boxes and not Intel or 
Alpha were used. Was the software used linux specific? (This would be a reason 
for not using Solaris -unless they were stuck for the 800 quid)

Michael.

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> Yep , the scenes on Titanic were done a Beowolf cluster of (i think ) sun
> machines running linux.
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> John Hegarty , WIT Computer Society
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> On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Donnchadh [iso-8859-1] Ó Donnabháin wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Donncha O Caoimh wrote:
> > 
> > >  Anyone see the Linux Demo Day site?
> > > Interesting idea..
> > > Go into Tescos or Dunnes in Douglas and display Linux for all to see!
> > > *grin*
> > >
> > 
> >    We'll need a visually impressive demonstration, e.g. Enlightenment,
> > GNOME,
> > etc. We could possibly show clips of Titanic also - (Linux was used for
> > rendering
> > some scenes I believe, are there any other films which used linux?).
> > 
> >      Donnchadh
> > 
> > 
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