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Google's got 'em beat

Google's got 'em beat

Posted Jun 6, 2007 12:08 UTC (Wed) by rknop (guest, #66)
In reply to: Google's got 'em beat by ekj
Parent article: DreamWorks Animation 'Shrek the Third': Linux Feeds an Ogre (Linux Journal)

I am sometimes struck when I notice a single file on my disk that would have filled the 50MB hard drive I had on my Amiga back in 1991....

-Rob


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Google's got 'em beat

Posted Jun 6, 2007 12:49 UTC (Wed) by hein.zelle (guest, #33324) [Link]

Try ocean or atmosphere modelling. The output files of my models typically don't (or just) fit on the drive of my workstation (presently a laptop). That's been the case for the last 8 years, so the problem doesn't seem to be going away, either :-)

We will always push software as far as the hardware will go, I think.

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