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Re:The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy V... by cartoonfoxes on Thursday April 07, 2022 @03:19PM (#30949149)
I think it was 2001? that Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) replaced their SGI workstations with linux boxes running RedHat 7.5 and powered by a Nvidia Quadro2 gpu.
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Re:The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy V... by samstave on Thursday April 07, 2022 @04:04PM (#30949700)
That and in ~2004, ILM, along with the other LucasFilm and Games --> Lucas Presidio... during which a lot of SGI machines were scrapped.

Source: I was the designer of the datacenter and network cabling infra for the Presidio.

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