How a Small Studio Pulled Off a Major 3-D Film Using Energy-Saving Technology

3-D animation has traditionally been dominated by mammoth Hollywood studios, and for good reason--the amount of processing power that goes into 3-D animation usually requires dedicated server farms that are air-conditioned 24 hours a day.  Illumination Entertainment, the production company behind the just-released feature Despicable Me,  decided to try something new--instead of using air-conditioned server farms to render images, the company asked IBM to built a customized server farm...