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| Authored by: sysprog on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 07:31 PM EDT |
Cray told the production that they would not sell to a mob
controlled
company (I
believe all sales were vetted by the
DoD).
I can't imagine that they would've even considered *buying* a
Cray just for the few minutes that it appeared in the movie; I assumed it was
rented (or borrowed). Also, to which company do you refer that was
mob-controlled -- surely not the fictional company Playtronics?
So the production cobbled together some stuff similar to the cray IOS
wings,
but
there were more boxes added to prevent it from being
mistook.
Interesting. What's your source for this information?
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| Authored by: greed on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 09:07 PM EDT |
There's no vendor branding, but it says "DL 700" in the red stripes on
the I/O cabinets. (Could be a heavily serifed "1" instead of a
"7"; I've only got the DVD to go by.) The central tower only looks a
little like an X-MP or a Y-MP; whoever did the Trivia entry on IMDB has either
not seen the film or not seen a Cray....
The central unit, which would house the processor and RAM boards on a Cray, is
actually two pieces, with different diameters. Combined with the power/cooling
"seats", it winds up looking a bit like the world's most expensive and
most geeky wedding cake....
Frankly, a real Cray would only have dramatic screen presence for people who
knew what they were. The fake in the movie looks Cray-ish enough for some geek
cred, and high-tech enough for everyone else... and let's face it, it's
"everyone else" you need to get the bills paid. It just needs to be
techy enough that us geeks will still turn up.
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