What are the hardware and software specifications of the computers used by Pixar in the makings of their animations?”
Pixar used high-end Sun Ultra 4000 Workstations for the final graphics renderings on their later films. They have also used workstations made by Silicon Graphics. http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/1997-05/sunflash.970506.1112.xml http://www.pixar.com/howwedoit/index.html# Sun Workstations such as those used by Pixar run an operating system called Solaris, which is a Unix-type OS. From the article cited above, the specifications on the Ultra 4000s used for Toy Story can be summarized: The 48 Sun Ultra 4000 workstations that RenderFarm uses have the aggregate performance of 1,680,000,000,000 operations per second. Each system’s compact enclosure (13.5″ x 19.7″ x 22″) houses 14 processors. The upgraded RenderFarm system will consist of over 650 processors with more than 45 of the high
