On 03/09/12 1:28 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: > 3D animation rendering as in gaming? That would explain the use of GPU's in > bigger calculation clusters I guess. gaming uses the graphics card for rendering, yes. by 'rendering', I was thinking more of production rendering, like Pixar does when making a movie, using clusters of 100s of multicore nodes to render frames. -- john r pierce N 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast