Comments on: WETA quietly building an HPC powerhouse http://insidehpc.com/2008/07/25/weta-quietly-building-an-hpc-powerhouse/ HPC News Without the Noise for Supercomputing Professionals | insideHPC Sun, 19 May 2013 10:46:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: NIWA upgrade to use UK Met castoffs, with greenwashing by IBM press machine | insideHPC.com http://insidehpc.com/2008/07/25/weta-quietly-building-an-hpc-powerhouse/#comment-181804 NIWA upgrade to use UK Met castoffs, with greenwashing by IBM press machine | insideHPC.com Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:27:27 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/2008/07/25/weta-quietly-building-an-hpc-powerhouse/#comment-181804 [...] to get out in front of controversy in New Zealand where the energy envelope is pretty tight as we reported last year. Either way, nasty bit of truth stretching there by IBM.AKPC_IDS += "7006,"; Posted in HPC by [...] [...] to get out in front of controversy in New Zealand where the energy envelope is pretty tight as we reported last year. Either way, nasty bit of truth stretching there by IBM.AKPC_IDS += "7006,"; Posted in HPC by [...]

]]> By: WETA Digital may or may not have had a datacenter fire | insideHPC http://insidehpc.com/2008/07/25/weta-quietly-building-an-hpc-powerhouse/#comment-108854 WETA Digital may or may not have had a datacenter fire | insideHPC Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:14:46 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/2008/07/25/weta-quietly-building-an-hpc-powerhouse/#comment-108854 [...] Noir left a comment about a fire on that story (comment here). I won’t reproduce the comment in its entirety here since it includes the entire [...] [...] Noir left a comment about a fire on that story (comment here). I won’t reproduce the comment in its entirety here since it includes the entire [...]

]]> By: Noir http://insidehpc.com/2008/07/25/weta-quietly-building-an-hpc-powerhouse/#comment-108824 Noir Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:04:51 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/2008/07/25/weta-quietly-building-an-hpc-powerhouse/#comment-108824 Not many people are talking about the Fire that happened out at WETA. http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/D378E7E589536D7DCC2574CC000AAD18 Something “sensitive” happened at Weta Digital’s datacentre in Wellington about two weeks ago. Computerworld had been told an HP blade server caught fire, bringing out the fire brigade. Partly true, according to a PR spokeswoman at Weta. She says a “sensitivity” caused a hot spot in an old computer room, about to be decommissioned, which triggered an automatic call-out by the fire brigade. Asked to define “sensitivity”, she couldn’t. “But there is no story,” she said. Computerworld sources say the call-out was around 3am, caused by the failure of the power supply in the chassis of a high-density blade. “They lost all 32 servers in the chassis,” a source says, “but because they have so many servers it didn’t shut down the business.” The equipment was replaced under warranty. Weta Digital commissioned its new extreme density datacentre this month. Not many people are talking about the Fire that happened out at WETA. http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/D378E7E589536D7DCC2574CC000AAD18

Something “sensitive” happened at Weta Digital’s datacentre in Wellington about two weeks ago.
Computerworld had been told an HP blade server caught fire, bringing out the fire brigade.

Partly true, according to a PR spokeswoman at Weta. She says a “sensitivity” caused a hot spot in an old computer room, about to be decommissioned, which triggered an automatic call-out by the fire brigade. Asked to define “sensitivity”, she couldn’t. “But there is no story,” she said.

Computerworld sources say the call-out was around 3am, caused by the failure of the power supply in the chassis of a high-density blade. “They lost all 32 servers in the chassis,” a source says, “but because they have so many servers it didn’t shut down the business.” The equipment was replaced under warranty.

Weta Digital commissioned its new extreme density datacentre this month.

]]> By: Pixar’s RenderMan Pro to support HPC Server | insideHPC http://insidehpc.com/2008/07/25/weta-quietly-building-an-hpc-powerhouse/#comment-82165 Pixar’s RenderMan Pro to support HPC Server | insideHPC Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:44:35 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/2008/07/25/weta-quietly-building-an-hpc-powerhouse/#comment-82165 [...] behind kid-friendly features like The Incredibles, Toy Story, Ratatouille, and Monsters Inc. As recent purchases by film companies like Weta Digital indicate, film making is increasing an HPC [...] [...] behind kid-friendly features like The Incredibles, Toy Story, Ratatouille, and Monsters Inc. As recent purchases by film companies like Weta Digital indicate, film making is increasing an HPC [...]

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