Death Star (ILM)

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The Death Star is the name of the render-farm owned by Industrial Light and Magic (ILM). It is a cluster computer originally built by SGI. Since then, it has been converted into a Linux system built by RackSaver (now Verari Systems) with AMD processors. The system originally had 1,500 processors in 750 nodes, this figure was double for Star Wars Episode III. ILM tends to be quiet about their supercomputer, so its current configuration is not known.