On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 2:24 AM, Chris Penn <[email protected]> wrote:
> http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/12/what-lies-at-heart-of-avatar.html > > "Operating System Linux > Oh, look: Linux. Why am I not surprised...?" > A link deeper in the URL, you see this... http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/12/22/the-data-crunching-powerhouse-behind-avatar/ Check out the amount of data that they were rendering: "For the last month or more of production those 40,000 processors were handling 7 or 8 gigabytes of data per second, running 24 hours a day. A final copy of *Avata*r equated to 17.28 gigabytes per minute of storage. For a 166 minute movie the rendering coordination was intense."
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