On Wednesday 15 September 2010 05:38:49 jordan wrote: > > Which leads me to my last example. Most people are aware that since > about 1999-2000, Linux has dominated the movie industry. Beginning > with Titanic and even today with say, Avatar. > > I would be willing to bet, that all of those wonderful rendering farms > and production suites, are > in fact using rt-linux. Please put a lot of money on that bet, because I'd like to win it :-) Why would those rendering farms use rt-linux? Rendering is not done in real-time - far from it actually. It can take minutes of the entire farm to render a single frame. So rendering is nothing but CPU- intensive (calculating how all those lightbeams are reflected by each surface) - and everything I/O bound is about throughput: writing the rendered pixels to disk and getting more surfaces from disk. There are no deadlines for rendering, there are no penalties if a frame is late by seconds - if the farm cannot complete its job overnight, they'll add more CPU power. -- Klaas van Gend Senior Solutions Architect, MontaVista Software LLC phone: +31 40 2801386 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
