Laguna Hills, CA -- Carrera Computers, whose Alpha-based Windows NT
workstations have been gaining acceptance in the entertainment industry,
has teamed with Venice, CA-based Digital Domain, the Academy
Award-nominated visual effects studio, to create a powerful rendering
solution blending UNIX, Linux and Windows NT hardware with custom
networking and software.

  Carrera chairman and founder Rod Frye expressed the belief that as a
result of this collaboration, Digital Domain becomes one of the most
powerful rendering centers in the entertainment industry. Digital Domain
has 230 Carrera Alpha workstations installed at the studio, 160 of which
were dedicated for rendering. Each system, running two separate operating
systems, required complex networking, both in I/O and in administrative
interoperability.

  Each of the newly installed Carrera workstations is powered by a Digital
Semiconductor 21164 quad issue super scalar microprocessor, a 256-bit
1.067Gbyte/sec memory bus and a switched 10/100 Mbit/sec networking
solution. In addition, the super computer solution was hosted by a single
terminal administrating all rendering modes.

  The collaboration of Digital Domain and Carrera produced a render farm
capable of 400 billion instructions per second, running optimized software
on cross platforms and communicating with a common networking protocol, to
ensure animation integrity.

  Frye noted, "Digital Domain has been key to our growth in the Hollywood
entertainment industry. We are very pleased they called on Carrera and
trusted us to provide a solution. We're, of course, proud of the role we
played in this achievement. This center is possibly the most impressive
rendering solution that has ever been assembled, one which is capable of
yielding some incredible effects for future film and animation."

  Scott Ross, Digital Domain chief executive officer and president, said
"Our current slate of projects created huge challenges. With 'Titanic', we
are attempting one of the most ambitious and complex projects in the
history of film. We needed a partner who could quickly assemble a solution
specific to our application needs, despite problems surrounding
cross-platform and networking issues.