renderwall

n. a bank or cluster of computers devoted to creating animation. Subjects: English, Entertainment, Technology, Jargon

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Citations: 1996 [mtucker@world.std.com (Michael Jay Tucker)] Usenet: comp.unix.solaris (July 30) “newsletter selections”: Remember the movie Toy Story? Well, when Pixar did the rendering on that, they created their own supercomputer to do it. The supercomputer in question was dozens of rack-mounted Sun workstations sans monitors and with their cpus replaced by Ross hyperSPARCs. They called it the RenderWall. 2001 Onfilm (New Zealand) (July 30) “Going postal” p. 15: We have also added a render wall for our effects and animation. 2001 [König Prüß, GfbAEV (saurkraut@weinerschnitzle.com)] Usenet: alt.slack (Dec. 21) “Re: Oh. My. Bob. LOTR. SPOILER&helllip;but not much of a spoiler”: I was kind of hoping that the CG would be some- thing like “Meet the Feebles” on acid. But there might still be some hope for the Compaq “RenderWall” clusterphuk, if they can hook it up to a ukulele and a kazoo. 2003 Jennifer Hillner Wired (Dec.) “The Wall of Fame”: Churning out scenes like the destruction of Barad-dûr and the Battle of Pelennor Fields (with thousands of bloodthirsty CG Orcs) took 3,200 processors running at teraflop speeds through 10-gig pipes—that’s one epic renderwall.

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