Dustin Kirkland: 35,000-Core Ubuntu Server Farm Renders Avatar

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They have a 2 Petabyte disk array, 10gbps networking, and 35,000 cores (4,000+ HP blades) in their data center, and still it takes 48 hours to render some of their graphic sequences.

According to Paul, Ubuntu is at the core of all of this,

via blog.dustinkirkland.com

Ok, I still have to see the film. Anyway, I think that it’s fairly impressive just reading about the computational power that nowadays it’s needed to produce a film like Avatar! Additionally, I must admit that my “open source” side is pleased to know that they are using Ubuntu on their machines… šŸ˜‰

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Dustin Kirkland: 35,000-Core Ubuntu Server Farm Renders Avatar

ā€” Posted inAvatar, films, linux, Ubuntu ā€” 1 min read

They have a 2 Petabyte disk array, 10gbps networking, and 35,000 cores (4,000+ HP blades) in their data center, and still it takes 48 hours to render some of their graphic sequences.

According to Paul, Ubuntu is at the core of all of this,

via blog.dustinkirkland.com

Ok, I still have to see the film. Anyway, I think that it’s fairly impressive just reading about the computational power that nowadays it’s needed to produce a film like Avatar! Additionally, I must admit that my “open source” side is pleased to know that they are using Ubuntu on their machines… šŸ˜‰

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Exploring New Nepomuk Features in Mandriva Linux 2010 | KDE.news

ā€” Posted indesktop, kde, linux, nepomuk ā€” 1 min read

via dot.kde.org

Interesting and detailed article on Nepomuk, the semantic desktop technology that is already part of the KDE platform: two of the “driving forces” behind the project, explain the Nepomuk features and also those that have already been introduced in Mandriva Linux 2010. One of the many signs of tight connection between Open Source and innovation…

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Official Google Mac Blog: Google Chrome for Mac goes beta!

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I recently installed Chrome on my Mac, and I have to say that it starts really fast (detectably faster than Firefox, for sure…) I still can’t adopt it as main browser, since I’m too addicted to Firefox extensions (and at the moment nothing can beat the wonderful extensions system of that browser).

However, extensions are growing also for Chrome. Let’s wait and see. If I’d have a good extensions for blog posting, as Scribfire, just to start… šŸ˜‰

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Google Chrome OS Use Cases

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Google didn’t do a good job at explaining the intended use of Chrome OS and many people wondered if Google’s operating system is an alternative to Windows. The goal is to build “an operating system that provides a fast, simple, and more secure computing experience for people who spend most of their time on the web”.

via googlesystem.blogspot.com

Nice and brief article that can help to put the new Google OS in the right perspective. Briefly, this OS can’t be seen as competitor to most used operating system: it simply lacks a lot of features to allow such kind of comparisons! Conversely, it came with a number of peculiarity that can be very interesting in selected fields, such as (just to say one) netbooks.

It may be taken as an excellent example of the intrinsic flexibility of linux, don’t you think so?

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Google Chrome OS and Canonical

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So 2010 looks set to be a very exciting year. In addition to delivering Ubuntu experiences with both existing and new OEM partners, we will be working with Google on Chrome OS based devices.

 

via blog.canonical.com

It’s certainly an exciting thing that Google OS is taking shape. I think that the simple fact that a huge company invest on linux, far from being a problem for the open source community, can bring some new perspectives and some fresh new air on the linux world. And it’s certainly needed, IMHO. Even more good, is discovering that Ubuntu is working with Google in this project…

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