2005/07/01

Linux and the movie Titanic"

In the movie "Titanic", all the visual effects were generated by a cluster of Linux computers :



In 1997, during the work on Titanic, the estimated computer facility required involved approximately 350 SGI CPUs, 200 DEC Alpha CPUs and 5 terabytes of disk all connected by a 100Mbps or faster network, running under the OS DEC Unix. The cost was far too prohibitive and Digital Domain turned to Linux. Finally, the configuration was made up of 160 433 MHz DEC Alpha systems, 105 were running Linux and the remaining 55 were operating Windows NT. I got a picture of the facility set up at that time:



According to Digital Domain, the low entry cost, versatility and interoperability of Linux is sufficiently attractive to warrant more extensive investigation, experimentation and deployment in the film production industry.

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