April 28, 2005
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.
Contact Information:
Bhavini Patel
Angstrom
Microsystems
(617) 695-0137 x 32
bpatel@angstrom.com
About
Angstrom Microsystems
Angstrom is one of the top AMD Opteron processor
HPC specialists in the Hollywood special effects industry. Its customers
include LucasFilms, Rhythm & Hues, Pixar and Sony Imageworks. Angstrom has
earned a reputation for quality, service, and engineering innovation in the AMD
Opteron market. Its high performance AMD Opteron™ processor-based blade
servers lead the industry in quality, price and performance. Angstrom has
recently announced the world's first and only 16-way AMD Opteron
processor-based blade server: the Titan64 OctaBlade with 128GB of
memory.
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