Wednesday May 02, 2007 Grid Engine Powers Harry Potter Film
The Sydney Morning Herald brings this story on how Sun N1 Grid Engine Software is used by Rising Sun Pictures:
According to Bruno Mattarollo, chief technology officer for RSP, the decision to move to Sun Computer's N1 Grid Engine software to manage the RSP network has increased the power available to designers, cut power and cooling requirements and boosted productivity.
"The grid engine supports individual jobs and also the interdependencies between jobs," Mr Mattarollo said. The grid integrates RSP's 130 servers and allows the 80 administration computers, when they are not in use at night, to be hooked into the grid to complete compute rendering jobs overnight. RSP has even designed its own screen savers so that when a designer steps away from a computer, say at lunchtime, the computer automatically kicks into the grid. Full Story
Posted by Rich Brueckner [HPC Article of the Day] ( May 02, 2007 05:00 AM ) PermalinkComments are closed for this entry.
