Hollywood
RSS HollywoodDell PowerEdge M610 Helps Soho VFX Deliver Hollywood Blockbusters Faster by Accelerating Rendering by 20 Percent
White Paper With compute-intensive rendering processes, highly variable workloads, and dwindling space in its data center, visual effects studio Soho VFX depends on scalable high-performance servers to match the demanding pace of... [02 Oct 2009]
James Cameron
AS Profile While Titanic and Terminator director James Cameron might not have some of the obvious technology credentials of others who feature on the Agenda Setters list, his latest cinematic effort has earned him a place on the list. [29 Sep 2009]
Intel Processors Help Sample Digital Accelerate Media Processing, Consolidate Servers, and Deliver HD Video to Executives
White Paper Shuttling media among Hollywood studio departments can be costly and chaotic. Sample Digital offers production workflow and media management tools to help studios, networks, production companies, and ad agencies reduce... [28 Aug 2009]
Delivering Local Content Over IP Networks: VODxchange Content Creation System
White Paper To enhance their IPTV strategy, service providers should expand beyond the traditional linear programming and VOD content available from Hollywood. The advent of time-shifted TV and Video On Demand (VOD) have increased... [15 Aug 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.08.09
Round-Up Generally speaking, IT and Hollywood have a dodgy track record, for every WarGames there's a Hackers, for every Tron there's a Swordfish. When T.S. Eliot wrote "April is the cruellest month" he had clearly never faced... [07 Aug 2009]
Photos: Barclays turns to Hollywood to sell security
Photo Think of a great premise for a Hollywood blockbuster and chances are it wouldn't involve IT security. But Barclays has scored a runaway hit by taking big screen successes like Bridget Jones's Diary and A Time to Kill and... [03 Aug 2009]
Cyber security: War Games or Mission Impossible?
News She also referenced a few Hollywood examples of the problem of cyber attacks, including War Games and Bruce Willis action movie Die Hard 4.0 which illustrate the types of risks faced. The internet is not reliable or... [24 Apr 2009]
Photos: The power behind a 3D alien invasion
Photo Monsters and aliens will be leaping out of movie screens across the UK this weekend - courtesy of some serious processing power. Dreamworks Animation SKG 3D flick Monsters vs Aliens tapped into the power of HP workstations and servers to... [31 Mar 2009]
Netbooks and recession-busting tech headline at CeBit
News CeBit can even boast Hollywood glitter this year, since California's official partnership means the US state's Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, will travel to Hanover to officially open the fair on Monday night with... [02 Mar 2009]
ComputerWeekly - It's Sad When Friends Fall Out
White Paper However, the protestations that all is fine may well sound more like the dying days of a Hollywood marriage. For many years, two companies at opposite ends of the technology spectrum were best friends. [21 Feb 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Imprudent exposure
Comment Today that fledging online porn industry of 15 years ago has become mammoth - far bigger than Hollywood and the music industry combined. Compiled in my hotel room in Swindon, UK and dispatched via a free, and really... [13 Jan 2009]
Dell Helps Soho VFX Deliver a Hollywood Blockbuster on Deadline While Reducing Power Costs by 20 Percent
White Paper Soho VFX makes the impossible happen for Hollywood blockbusters. Artists at visual effects studio Soho VFX work under intense pressure to meet tight deadlines; they require highly reliable and dependable computers that... [01 Jan 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Synthetic people
Comment I've just been looking at avatars and synthetic people over the past 15 years and must say the progress that's been made is very impressive - from the 'blocky and doll like' mannequins we currently see on social websites to the... [11 Nov 2008]
With .tv a New Rich Media Star Is Launched on the World Stage
White Paper Hollywood.TV wanted to provide 24/7 access for a worldwide audience to view online celebrity-related materials at their own convenience and find a vehicle for communication through the Internet that doesn't impose the... [08 Nov 2008]
Codebreaking Bletchley given help to fill in the cracks
News Bletchley Park is famous for the role it played in decrypting messages enciphered by the Nazi Enigma machine - depicted in the Hollywood film of the same name - and also for the world's first codebreaking supercomputer... [06 Nov 2008]
