Angstrom Microsystems is announcing the deployment of Angstrom Titan64 SuperBlade™ rendering servers at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), a Lucasfilm Ltd™. Company. to render the special effects for Star Wars Episode III. LucasFilm has continued its commitment to Angstrom Microsystems due to its on-going success in such mission-critical deployments.
“ILM is one of the premiere special effects houses rendering some of the hottest movies of all time and Angstrom is proud to be selected as its provider of computing solutions,” said Lalit Jain, CEO of Angstrom Microsystems, “Angstrom, in turn, continues to take feed back from ILM to created systems that are built for the special effects high performance industry.”
Angstrom Microsystems, an AMD Opteron processor specialist company, has blade and workstation solutions uniquely designed for the special effects industry. A Titan64 QuadraBlade™ rack maximizes processing density by packing 416 AMD Opteron processor cores in 52 cool running blade servers within one rack. Angstrom offers high performance workstations: 4 AMD Opteron™ cores with dual PCI-Express slots housing 2 ultra high-end graphics cards with SLI capability. Angstrom computers are powered by AMD Opteron™ processors and are dual core enabled for easy performance upgrades.
