Death_Star_(ILM)

Death Star (ILM)

Death Star (ILM)

Industrial Light & Magic render farm

For the Star Wars superweapon, see Death Star.

The Death Star is the name of the render farm owned by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). It is a cluster computer originally built by SGI. Since then, it has been converted into a Linux system built by RackSaver (now Verari Systems) with AMD processors.[1] It is one of the largest render farms. The system originally had 1,500 processors in 750 nodes, this figure was doubled for Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith. ILM tends to be quiet about their supercomputer, so its current configuration is not known.

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    "ILM death star render farm".


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