How Lenovo Upgraded the DreamWorks Datacenter During a Pandemic

February 10, 2021

DreamWorks Animation has produced some of the most popular animated movies of the last 25 years, from Shrek and Madagascar to Kung Fu Panda and How to Train Your Dragon. As an early mover in 3D animation and one of the first challengers to Pixar, DreamWorks requires powerful hardware... Read more…

UT Dallas Grows HPC Storage Footprint for Animation and Game Development

October 28, 2020

Computer-generated animation and video game development are extraordinarily computationally intensive fields, with studios often requiring large server farms wi Read more…

What’s New in HPC Research: Deep Space Radiation, Animated Films, Simulations & More

October 1, 2019

In this bimonthly feature, HPCwire highlights newly published research in the high-performance computing community and related domains. From parallel programm Read more…

DreamWorks Outsources Animation Work to Chinese Petaflopper

October 8, 2012

Tianhe-1A enters the CGI rendering business. Read more…

Taiwan Readies 70-Teraflop Supercomputer

February 29, 2012

New system will be used for cloud-based rendering. Read more…

Reaching Realism’s Glass Ceiling

April 27, 2011

Photorealistic rendering for design and animation is pushing multicore processors to their limit with key software advancements. Read more…

Studio Execs Discuss Render Farms in the Cloud

February 24, 2011

While some render farms have found their way to the cloud, some studios are shunning cloud computing due to latency and security concerns. Read more…

Asia’s Fastest Supercomputer Props Up Indian Animation

May 4, 2009

The 172 teraflop Eka supercomputer was used to render "Roadside Romeo" -- India's first international quality 3D animation film. Read more…

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