Lucas Ltd Opens New Headquarters in Letterman Digital Arts Center

[Audioholics]

<P><FONT face=Arial size=2><A href="http://www.audioholics.com/news/pressreleases/LucasfilmLtdPresidio.php"><IMG style="WIDTH: 76px; HEIGHT: 100px" alt=[presidio41] hspace=10 src="http://www.audioholics.com/news/thumbs/presidio41_th.jpg" align=left border=0></A>"Star Wars" creator George Lucas has opened&nbsp;up a brand&nbsp;new facility in the Letterman Digital Arts Center in the Presidio, a former military base and national park in San Francisco. Lucasfilm Ltd. threw a party Saturday with around 2,000 attendees to celebrate the new company move. Lucas wanted to move his companies there to give them a better workflow, but also to ensure that the park remained a beautified area with some representation of the cultural arts which began there. The companies that are making the move include the corporate offices of Lucasfilm Ltd., Industrial Light &amp; Magic (the reknowned special effects house) and LucasArts (which produces video games). The center will also house the company's licensing division. Most of these companies are moving from Marion County.</FONT></P><P><FONT face=Arial size=2>[Read More About the Facility]</FONT></P>

 

[Jmoney715]

Since i found this old post, i think i should add that my company furnished all the finish hardware for this project, our sister company installed the frames and doors... its was an awesome project, but i never got to meet George Lucas but i did get to walk around the building when it was underconstruction and man did he go all out on it. i suggest people walk around the area as they have opened it to the public now, i believe they worked on over 17 acres of land and its all open to the public, you wont be able to get in the actual buildings though, security is very tight there.

 

[Jmoney715]

Facts and Figures

The Letterman Digital Arts Center is the new San Francisco home of Lucasfilm Ltd., Industrial Light & Magic and LucasArts. The campus includes:
A state-of-the-art high-performance data network with more than 300 10-gigabyte ports and 1,500 1-gigabyte ports -- the largest in the entertainment industry
Fiber-optics cable pulled to every artist desktop, enabling Lucasfilm to deliver high-resolution images to each digital artist
600 miles of cable throughout the four buildings on the campus
Raised floors throughout the building, opening the layout of the studio and enabling the workspace to be reconfigured with each new project
Data storage (at opening) of more than 100 terabytes
A Media Data Center to host custom-designed media servers to deliver high-resolution images to the on-campus digital theaters, screening rooms and desktops
Systems for image and sound editing, color management and correction, and high-speed compositing
A Media Control Room that manages media input, output, format conversions and duplication
A 13,500-square-foot data center houses a render farm, file servers and storage systems (a "render farm" is a cluster of computers that work around the clock to process synthetic images), including:
More than 3,000 AMD processors
Proprietary render-management tools, allowing desktop workstations to be added to the render farm pool after hours, expanding the processing capacity to more than 5,000 processors
The campus houses a 300-seat theater with a 49'x21' screen, optimized for both digital and film projection
There are two 65-seat dailies theaters for viewing visual effects work and for digital color timing

 

[Tsunamii]

Thanks for the posts... Great read.. Very very cool... I like the after hours workstation cluster, sounds like the SETI project...