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Came across an incredible photo series of their dataserver. http://photos.imgix.com/building-a-graphics-card-for-the-internet http://photos.imgix.com/building-a

Came across an incredible photo series of their dataserver. http://photos.imgix.com/building-a-graphics-card-for-the-internet http://photos.imgix.com/building-a-graphics-card-for-the-int...

Xiol 10y ago
> Apple’s operating system offers numerous advantages over other platforms when it comes to image processing, and it is also favored by many designers for the same reasons. imgix has written tools which allow us to leverage these strengths with our service, using OS X for image operations where it provides superior quality and performance. What advantages? If you're running these as headless servers, then what advantages does OSX possibly provide over cheaper, more powerful Linux boxes using e.g. ImageMagick (ok, ok, not having massive remote code execution vulnerabilities is one of them).
- pjc50 10y ago
  Does ImageMagick have access to GPU hardware acceleration?
  - tetromino_ 10y ago
    Of course: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/opencl.php http://www.imagemagick.org/script/opencl.php
- wille92 10y ago
  Same thing jumped out at me--having racks of mac mini's seems like a waste
- coolspot 10y ago
  Crazy.