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ILM's Datacenter
kylegordon writes "CGW has inside scoop on Industrial Light and Magic's facilities after they moved from San Rafeal to San Franciscos Presidio. With 3000 disks, it can shift 170Tb to 5000 rendernodes over 10GbE and 1GbE network links. It's an impressive system, for impressive films."
I bet I could make a graph that represents how the quality of movies is characteristically inversely proportionate to the amount of CGI effects in them. Oftentimes, eye candy is used to shroud the plot and mask the bad acting/directing. American audiences especially just go looking for explosion sequences and CGI in the annual summer action flick hunt. We often fear a movie that might prove to be too cerebral and that pretty much disgusts me. Way to reinforce bad movies that are only good for one viewing with volume set to 'loud' and TV set to 'huge.'
ILM is responsible for making movies like The Mask (of which there are seven films) and characters like Jar-Jar Binks possible. Be sure to thank them for that.
My work here is dung.
Plus, it can hold a decent percentage of my pr0n collection... well, the JPGs anyway.
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Nice setup you have there ILM. Its a shame if something should happen to it ;)
I wasn't suggesting moving the media was necessarily a better way to go -- I was just curious what the bitrate would turn out to be.
As an aside, the other day in the lab a coworker asked me for an application I had on my thumbdrive. I tossed it across the room to him and then observed that I had just moves 1GB of data in 1 second, wirelessly!
BTW, I tried to read the article but the site was slashdotted at the time.
The more you regulate a company, the worse its products become.
Why have 5000 render nodes when you could virtualise with 250 physical processors running 20 apiece?
however, it's much better than stop-motion animation What are you talking about. Gumby kicks ass! In fact, I didn't realize it was fake until last year. Alas, I will never get Gumby's autograph.