Tuesday
Blog Meanwhile, back in the other world of farms, fantasies and loud music, Hollywood mainstay effects house Industrial Light And Magic -- still one of my favourite company names -- is throwing away its SGI Risc/Unix workstations in favour of Pentium 4...
[July 26, 2002, 14:40]
'Star Wars' effects studio shifts to Intel
News Industrial Light and Magic has joined the Empire, hardware-wise. The technical effects studio has switched from using RISC-Unix workstations from SGI to using Intel-based Dell systems running Linux for the bulk of its animation and special effects...
[July 22, 2002, 8:02]
Laughing from Sunday mornings all the way to the bank
News But now, studios including DreamWorks and Industrial Light and Magic are moving to Linux-powered machines. Hal Hickel, animation director for effects specialist Industrial Light and Magic, says that in the last decade the computer graphics industry...
[November 1, 2004, 11:19]
Graphics technology shows shape of the universe
News Graphic designers from Industrial Light and Magic will demonstrate on Monday how the studio created different characters and special effects. Now, because of the calculating power of modern computers, light patterns and physical movement can be...
[July 29, 2003, 10:28]
AMD hopes to rack up server victory
News Besides displacing Sun Microsystems servers at Pixar, RackSaver has installed large server systems at graphics chip designer Nvidia, energy company Conoco, and Industrial Light and Magic, the effects studio behind the "Star Wars" films.
[March 5, 2003, 14:07]
Linux heads for 'A list'
News Other digital animation companies using Linux on Intel systems include Industrial Light and Magic and Pixar. In partnership with Hewlett-Packard, the movie studio dipped its toes into Linux waters with "Shrek," using some lower-end HP servers to...
[July 1, 2003, 8:09]
Red Hat unfurls Hammer plans
News Marquee customers such as Industrial Light and Magic have adopted servers based on AMD's current Athlon chip, but AMD remains a fringe brand when it comes to the corporate world. Red Hat, the dominant seller of the Linux operating system, said that...
[August 13, 2002, 8:06]
Nvidia GeForce 6800 Ultra: a first look
Talkback Come on, if ATI were good, then why aren't they using technologies based on those from Industrial Light and Magic? ATI are the ones who are crapping in their boots, all they have done is taken old technology and boosted how fast it can render the...
[June 13, 2004, 1:49]
NetApp aims to marry high performance and high capacity
News One of NetApp's existing customers is the film effects company Industrial Light and Magic, which used NetApp hardware and Linux in the making of Star Wars Episode III. The system supports multi-gigabit speeds and up to six petabytes (6,000,000 GB...
[June 12, 2006, 15:10]
Lacey's Paper Round
News Industrial Light & Magic is working on a Frankenstein remake. More than 3,000 exhibits have been submitted in Microsoft's trial, and most of them consist of email. Steve Jobs makes the cover of Business Week again, the FT says that Intel evidence...
[November 17, 1998, 16:37]
Pixar switches from Sun to Intel
News Last July, for instance, Industrial Light and Magic replaced RISC-based computers running Unix on artist workstations from SGI, choosing instead Dell desktops containing Intel chips and Linux software.
[February 10, 2003, 8:56]
