The computing power behind ILM's magic

Author: iSamurai
Date: 28-Jan-2007, 10:16 PM

Author: iSamurai
Time: 28-Jan-2007 10:16 PM
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Lucasfilm open up the doors of its data center to reveal an impressive array of servers and storage devices.
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Author: ferris209
Time: 28-Jan-2007 11:54 PM
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It must really be nice to be Lucas, with all that money and technology at his fingertips.

Author: Tiptup
Time: 29-Jan-2007 5:21 AM
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Heh, I liked the imperial symbol and the Death Star names imprinted on the casing.

"Now all Lucas has to do is make a cgi version of himself. It will be better than the original and fit his original vision." - skyjedi2005

Author: Cable-X1
Time: 29-Jan-2007 10:50 AM
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Meh....who cares?

Nothing there that can't be found at any other huge corporation like Microsoft or IBM.

Technology doesn't impress me like it used to anyway....

...and working at LFL these days impresses me even less.

All that money and technology and LaserDisc transfers are the best they can offer us???

Author: Sluggo
Time: 29-Jan-2007 1:35 PM
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True dat. Congrats on your promotion, Cable

Author: Cable-X1
Time: 29-Jan-2007 2:13 PM
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Oh yeah....just hit 1000!!! Thanks!!!

When can I become a mod?!?!?! Dread that day, Go-Mer-Tonic!!! Heh heh!!!

Author: grifter
Time: 29-Jan-2007 3:41 PM
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Wow! that's very ...unimpressive. It looks like any "making of" documentary about modern movies (bunch of guys in front of computers).

I can easily picture one of these hard drives with a small label on it: "Original Unaltered Trilogy - HD master - Use for anything else than digital modifications is forbidden"

Author: Anchorhead
Time: 30-Jan-2007 4:59 AM
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Originally posted by: Cable-X1
....who cares?

Nothing there that can't be found at any other huge corporation like Microsoft or IBM.

True, and it doesn't have to be a huge corporation either. We have those very same NetApp racks in our server room. We use them to handle all our 3D seismic data. Those aren't anything special.

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Author: ferris209
Time: 30-Jan-2007 5:41 AM
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Originally posted by: Cable-X1
Meh....who cares?

Nothing there that can't be found at any other huge corporation like Microsoft or IBM.

Technology doesn't impress me like it used to anyway....

...and working at LFL these days impresses me even less.

All that money and technology and LaserDisc transfers are the best they can offer us???

Hammer + nail head = all that jive