“Toy Story” is also something of a coup for Sun Microsystems. The movie’s final image rendering was accomplished on a “farm” of 87 dual-processor and 30 quad-processor 100-MHz SPARCstation 20s – representing more computing power than 300 Cray 1’s. “There is more computer power applied to this film than [to] any film in history,” Catmull said.
Pretty neat. I knew they had a SGI cluster but didn’t know about the Sun’s. Interesting that they combined them. I think they’re the only one I know that didn’t settle on one brand exclusively. I mean, there were even SGI’s managing the Sun’s in the same, rendering pipeline.
Final Fantasy’s setup and results were still the best, though. I did comment on it but just edited it out into a dedicated submission.
https://lobste.rs/s/0q7hhb/final_fantasy_spirits_within_powered_by