[CLUG] meeting

[John Hegarty]

Sorry about that I should really do a little research before
makeing a posting. The movie was done on 350 SGI CPUs, 200 DEC Alpha CPUs and 5
terabytes of disk all connected by a 100Mbps or faster network. For more
info about it got o http://linuxjournal.com:82/lj-issues/issue46/2494.html

 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
John Hegarty , WIT Computer Society
jhegarty at snet.wit.ie

On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Michael Field - NC Systems Server Engineering - SUN Ireland wrote:

> 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.
> 
> > To: cork at linux.ie
> > Subject: Re: [CLUG] meeting
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
> > X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by lugh.tuatha.org id 
> RAA18023
> > X-Mailman-Version: 1.0rc2
> > List-Id: Cork Linux Users' Group <cork.linux.ie>
> > X-BeenThere: cork at linux.ie
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> > X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by smv03.iname.net id 
> MAA14018
> > 
> > Yep , the scenes on Titanic were done a Beowolf cluster of (i think ) sun
> > machines running linux.
> > 
> > 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > John Hegarty