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April 3, 2006
Blue Sky Studios, a Fox™ Entertainment
company announced the release of Ice Age "The Meltdown", a computer animated
feature film. Angstrom Titan64 SuperBlade™ rendering servers and Titan64
Creator™ workstations were used exclusively for the creation of this
movie. Angstrom computers are powered by AMD Opteron™ processors to
provide maximum performance while minimizing power requirements. Blue Sky
Studios is using the Angstrom Titan64 computers to enable significantly more
complex imagery and faster generation of animated features.
Angstrom
Microsystems, an AMD Opteron™ processor specialist, provides blade and
workstation solutions uniquely designed for the special effects industry. With
a client list that includes the top Hollywood studios in the world, over 50% of
special effect and animation movies utilize Angstrom
technology.
Angstrom offers high performance workstations: 8 AMD
Opteron™ processor 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.
"Blue Sky Studios is one of the premiere animations houses
creating some of the most innovative movies today and Angstrom is proud to be
selected as its provider of computing solutions," said Lalit Jain, CEO of
Angstrom Microsystems, "Angstrom is utilizing its existing Hollywood market
expertise to deliver solutions that are specifically tailored for the creative
needs of Blue Sky Studios animators and post production facilities."
"We
feel that Angtrom provided an extremely cost effective solution for our
computing needs," said Carl Ludwig Chief Technology Officer at Blue Sky
Studios, "Angstrom's ability to quickly deliver quality AMD Opteron
processor-based blade solutions enabled us to easily manage and expand our
growing requirements for the film."
"AMD shares a kindred spirit with
leading-edge innovators like Angstrom Microsystems and Blue Sky Studios who
seek to liberate the creative artist from traditional technology limitations
for the benefit of audiences everywhere, " said Charlie Boswell, director of
Digital Media and Entertainment at AMD. "AMD Opteron processors powering
Angstrom workstation and server solutions allow digital animation and special
effects artists to create at the speed of inspiration."
Contact
Information:
Bhavini Patel
Angstrom Microsystems
(617)695-0137 x
32
bpatel@angstrom.com
About Blue
Sky Studios
Academy Award® winning Blue Sky Studios became a wholly
owned unit of Fox Filmed Entertainment in 1997 (a subsidiary of News
Corporation). The studio was founded ten years earlier with a mission to
pioneer creatively superior photo-realistic, high-resolution,
computer-generated character animation for the feature film, television and
entertainment industries.
About Angstrom Microsystems
Angstrom
is one of the top AMD Opteron™ processor HPC specialists in the Hollywood
special effects industry. Its customers include Pixar, Lucas Films, Sony
Imageworks, Rhythm & Hues and Digital Domain. 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 the
world's only dual SLI capable GPU blades running FX4500 graphics cards with
dual AMD Opteron™ processors.
See Angstrom Microsystems in the end
credits of Ice Age "The Meltdown".
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