Rendering Systems?

[Meithan]

I was talking about rendering and hardware specs with a friend, and the question came up:

What kind of computers (specs?) do professional rendering companies (ILM, Pixar, etc) use as workstations?

Anyone knows?

 

[The General]

Originally posted on Wikipedia:
Pixar uses a cluster of off the shelf Linux PCs in the production of all their movies despite ties to Steve Jobs, founder and current CEO of Apple Computers.

Heh.

 

[Meithan]

Interesting indeed. So they use clusters of "normal" computers? No info on detailed specs?

 

[Jumping_Bean514]

Allot of companys send there stuff to render farms to get it done for them. Render farms ussually have lots of render nodes.

 

[Apokalipse]

Pixar has their own rendering machines. they're a big company.

 

[Meithan]

Any clue as to what the specs are? That was my original question.

 

[Jumping_Bean514]

Any clue as to what the specs are? That was my original question.

Well Boxx is a popular vender of render nodes and they sell these

http://www.boxxtech.com/Products/RenderBOXX/RenderBOXX.asp

I'm not sure how many companys use these but some of them might.