Python on the renderfarm

[Terry Reedy]

It is fairly well know that cinematic digital effects are most often 
rendered on *nix machines with efficient numeric code.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9951

But Python sometimes has a role too:  from the middile of the above link

'''
Tippett Studio: Linux Python Pipeline
JET is a proprietary Python-based system comprising software tools and 
scripts used to implement a visual effects and animation pipeline. “A 
visual effects and animation pipeline is an assembly line of software used 
to organize, automate and facilitate the creation of computer-generated 
imagery”, says Darling. “The JET tool is highly customizable, featuring 
XML-based user-interface templates that can be modified to suit specific 
types of artists or production needs. JET uses modular template chunks to 
perform each of the tasks in the pipeline, such as rendering or 
compositing. The templates are implemented as Python objects and are 
centrally located. JET is not only implemented entirely in Python, but it's 
also used to generate Python scripts automatically. These custom scripts 
form unique pipelines for each computer graphics job to run on the 
renderfarm.”

'''