render wall
n.— «We have also added a render wall for our effects and animation.» —“Going postal” Onfilm (New Zealand) July 30, 2001. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
renderwall n. a bank or cluster of computers devoted to creating animation. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
renderwall n.— «I was kind of hoping that the CG would be some- thing like “Meet the Feebles” on acid. But there might still be some hope for the Compaq “RenderWall” clusterphuk, if they can hook it up to a ukulele...
renderwall n.— «Remember the movie Toy Story? Well, when Pixar did the rendering on that, they created their own supercomputer to do it. The supercomputer in question was dozens of rack-mounted Sun workstations sans monitors and with...
renderwall n.— «Churning out scenes like the destruction of Barad-dûr and the Battle of Pelennor Fields (with thousands of bloodthirsty CG Orcs) took 3,200 processors running at teraflop speeds through 10-gig pipes—that’s one epic...