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<i>Over the past week 476 servers, each with two 2.2GHz Xeon processors and 4 gigabytes of memory per processor, have been added to the wall, supplementing the 350 existing 1GHz Pentium 3 servers.</i

<i>A box room was turned into new server room to house them, and members of Houston's 30-strong IT team laboured around the clock to bring up each server rack, plugging them in to what switch provider Foundry Networks says is already the largest TCP/IP network in the Southern Hemisphere.</i>

<i>The servers run Pixar's Renderman software on Red Hat Linux. Houston said Weta had effectively moved to Linux on the desktop, with the artists using the Maya animation suite from Alias/Wavefront and the Shake compositing tool from Nothing Real, which was now owned by Apple.</i>

<i>The final compositing is still done on an eight-processor SGI Onyx because the application used, Inferno from Discrete Logic, runs on SGI's Irix operating system.</i>

<i>When artists leave their workstations, monitors on the network detect the decline in activity and add the processing power to the render wall, which will eventually get up to 1300 processors.</i>

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