Compaq AlphaServers Play Leading Role at Oscars
Business Wire - March 23, 1999 12:07
HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 23, 1999--
Academy Award Winning "What Dreams May Come" and "Bunny" Films Harness the Power of Alpha
For the second year in a row, Compaq Computer Corporation's (NYSE:CPQ) AlphaServers and Tru64 UNIX played a leading role in films winning Academy Awards. What Dreams May Come, winner of the Best Visual Effects Oscar, and the Bunny film, capturing the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film, both relied on the power of Compaq AlphaServers to produce the films. Last year's winner of the Best Visual Effects Oscar, Titanic, also utilized Alpha-based systems to produce hundreds of computer-generated scenes.
Creation of computer generated images, and manipulation of filmed ones, from the subtle lighting and realism of Bunny to the spectacular technicolor scenes in What Dreams May Come, demand a tremendous amount of computing power. Compaq's AlphaServer 4100s helped Blue Sky Studios, creator of Bunny, meet the deadline for submitting the film and ultimately winning an Academy Award. In addition, film-maker Manex Entertainment also harnessed the power of a quad AlphaServer 4100 to transform two-dimensional paintings into a three-dimensional world, which acted as the basis for What Dreams May Come. For more details, please visit Compaq's Web site at: compaq.com.
The breakthrough speed and cost advantages of Compaq's 64-bit Alpha platform and Tru64 UNIX address the computing intensive needs of the most power-hungry computer-generated images. Compaq offers rendering future-proof solutions running on both Tru64 UNIX and Windows NT, as well as Linux.
Company Background: Compaq Computer Corporation, a Fortune Global 100 company, is the second largest computer company in the world and the largest global supplier of computer systems. For more corporate information, see: compaq.com.
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CONTACT: Compaq Computer Corporation
Steve Milmore, 508/467-2259
steve.milmore@compaq.com
or
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Kristen Wilson, 617/266-8400
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