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Submitted by: Emily Boyd (emilyboyd at emilyboyd dot com) Sponsored by: Google Summer of Code 2005
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60 lines
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<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/news/press-rel-1.sgml,v 1.8 2004/08/30 19:13:19 ceri Exp $">
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<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD Press Release: April 22, 1999">
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<p></p>
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<h2>FreeBSD Used to Generate Spectacular Special Effects</h2>
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<p><b>Concord, CA, April 22, 1999</b>:
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32 Dual-Processor FreeBSD systems were used to generate a large number of
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special effects in the cutting edge Warner Brothers film, <em>The
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Matrix</em>.</p>
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<p>Manex Visual Effects used 32 Dell Precision 410 Dual P-II/450
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Processor systems running FreeBSD as the core CG Render Farm. Charles
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Henrich, the senior systems administrator at Manex, says, "We came to a
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point in the production where we realized we just did not have enough
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computing power on our existing SGI infrastructure to get through the
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3-D intensive sequences. It was at that point we decided on going
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with a FreeBSD based solution, due to the ability to get the hardware
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quickly as well as the reliability and ease of administration that
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FreeBSD provides us. Working with Dell, we purchased 32 of these
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systems on a Wednesday, and had them rendering in production by
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Saturday afternoon. It was truly an amazing effort on everyone's
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part, and I don't believe it would've been possible had we chosen to
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go with any other Operating System solution."</p>
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<p>The FreeBSD operating system is a powerful, completely open-source
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system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution of UNIX. It is
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available free of charge from numerous Internet websites and also on
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CD-ROM from Walnut Creek CDROM, and includes thousands of ported
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applications including 3-D graphics rendering and many other equally
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powerful tools. FreeBSD is optimized for use on the Intel x86
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processor line that is the heart of today's versatile commodity
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personal computers. Infinitely customizable, FreeBSD is at the heart
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of such Internet powerhouse applications as Yahoo! and U.S. West
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because it is unencumbered by commercial license restrictions and can be
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copied and modified freely.</p>
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<p>For more information on FreeBSD, visit <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/">
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http://www.FreeBSD.org/</a> and <a href="http://www.wccdrom.com/">
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http://www.wccdrom.com/</a>. For more information about Manex Visual
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Effects, please visit <a href="http://www.mvfx.com/">http://www.mvfx.com/
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</a>.</p>
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