AMD Sets The 64-Bit Gold Standard For Industrial Light & Magic

daRk_heLmet · Aug 3, 2005, 05:04 PM

At Siggraph in Los Angeles today, AMD announced that the digital backbone of the new 23-acre Letterman Digital Arts Center campus of Lucasfilm Ltd. is being powered by AMD64 processor technology.

At the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge in the heart of San Francisco’s historic Presidio, Lucasfilm Ltd. is relocating Industrial Light & Magic, the world’s leading visual effects house, and LucasArts, the producer of some of the year’s top selling game titles to the new Letterman Digital Arts Center. Within the Letterman Digital Arts Center is a massive AMD64-based data center housing a render farm, file servers and storage systems, allowing computers to process data 24 hours a day, seven days a week to create astounding visual images for movies and games. The data center is capable of processing more than 150 terabytes of data per day.
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AMD Press Release Aug 1st

Aug 3, 2005, 05:04 PM	#1
daRk_heLmet Keep firing, assholes! Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Death Star Posts: 1,072 Rep Power: 0	AMD Sets The 64-Bit Gold Standard For Industrial Light & Magic At Siggraph in Los Angeles today, AMD announced that the digital backbone of the new 23-acre Letterman Digital Arts Center campus of Lucasfilm Ltd. is being powered by AMD64 processor technology. At the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge in the heart of San Francisco’s historic Presidio, Lucasfilm Ltd. is relocating Industrial Light & Magic, the world’s leading visual effects house, and LucasArts, the producer of some of the year’s top selling game titles to the new Letterman Digital Arts Center. Within the Letterman Digital Arts Center is a massive AMD64-based data center housing a render farm, file servers and storage systems, allowing computers to process data 24 hours a day, seven days a week to create astounding visual images for movies and games. The data center is capable of processing more than 150 terabytes of data per day. _______________________ AMD Press Release Aug 1st __________________ [color=white]My Blog[/color]