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Third Largest Supercomputer... at Weta Digital

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the rendering-monkeys dept.

Designadrug writes "This story at the BBC details how the worlds third largest supercomputer (conditions apply) lives at Weta Digital - the company that provided CGI effects for The Lord of the Rings movies. The article also goes on to discuss the 500 TeraBytes of data generated for the films and how the epic Battle of Pelennor Fields almost defeated the film itself."

7 of 245 comments (clear)

  1. Post-project emotional crash by NSash · · Score: 4, Funny

    He is confident... "King Kong is covered in hair," he said, "we could be animating that."

    Is it just me, or does that sound more desperate than confident?

  2. Re:File system ? by noelmarkham · · Score: 4, Funny

    e interesting to know what kind of a file system they use one something like this...

    My vote goes for FAT16.

  3. So anyone can build the largest? by BondGamer · · Score: 5, Funny

    If I collected 5121 computers (486s) and connected them all together I would have the largest supercomputer in the world?

  4. Based solely on processor count by jsin · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm sure that there are landfills that beat this setup...

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    second society
  5. DVD set by erroneous · · Score: 5, Funny

    Personally, I'm looking forward to the 2005 release of the 100000-DVD-set with all 500TB of extra footage and of making of documentaries.

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    erroneous: look me up in a dictionary
  6. Look out! Here comes new zealand! by nfabl · · Score: 5, Funny

    2 posts ago they were building stonehenge, now they have the 3rd largest supercomputer in the world.

    I for one...

  7. Re:conditions apply by cK-Gunslinger · · Score: 4, Funny


    1) Tomorrow + Tomorrow + Tomorrow + Tomorrow + Tomorrow + Tomorrow = 6 days.

    2) Longhorn + DNF!

    (Score: +1, Obvious)