HP Taps DreamWorks To Test Linux Workstations
DreamWorks Animation SKG has quietly taken possession of several Hewlett-Packard & Co. xw9400 workstations that are expected to provide faster processing speeds for creating advanced special effects in movies.
Participating as a test site, DreamWorks will help iron out the kinks in the workstation before HP publicly introduces the machine next month. By the end of this year, or early 2007, the studio hopes to begin replacing existing machines with the new systems that will run a Linux operating system.
The HP xw9400, a dual-core AMD Opteron Rev F processor workstation, is based on the highly anticipated dual-core Opteron processor from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Inc. that will, for the first, time utilize "DDR2 memory," said Derek Chan, head of digital operations at DreamWorks on Friday. "It also will have the latest and greatest generation of graphic cards."
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