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Inside the Lucasfilm datacenter
passthecrackpipe writes "Where can you find a (rhetorical) 11.38 petabits per second bandwidth? It appears to be inside the Lucasfilm Datacenter. At least, that is the headline figure mentioned in this report on a tour of the datacenter. The story is a bit light on the down-and-dirty details, but mentions a 10 gig ethernet backbone (adding up the bandwidth of a load of network connections seems to be how they derived the 11.38 petabits p/s figure. In that case, I have a 45 gig network at home.) Power utilization is a key differentiator when buying hardware, a "legacy" cycle of a couple of months, and 300TB of storage in a 10.000 square foot datacenter. To me, the story comes across as somewhat hyped up — "look at us, we have a large datacenter" kind of thing, "look how cool we are". Over the last couple of years, I have been in many datacenters, for banks, pharma and large enterprise to name a few, that have somewhat larger and more complex setups."
Only a few boxen are used rendering and effects. The rest is to track and calculate sales of Star Wars merchandise.
Is that the speed you can talk at?
Still, I'm pretty sure that Google's new datacenter wipes its ass with a datacenter the size of this one.
I'm pretty sure Google's datacentre has evolved beyond the need for an ass.
Rod Taylor
...would post this as a news item. Front page, too.
Let's break this down submission down..
"Hi. I found this article on the web that totally didn't impress me, I think they fiddled with the numbers to make themselves look better than they are, and overall I really couldn't give a shite."
Yes. Obvious front page material for a Sunday!
Nope. They run LucasOS. It's perfect for their needs, since it's constantly being updated to suit his vision.
This guy's the limit!
and format it?
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
...running FC6 x64.
Why? Because my rig has never so much as contained - much less rendered - an image of Jar Jar Binks.
Pwned.
I am very small, utmostly microscopic.
Will it run Vista? Sounds like they might need to upgrade!
A conversation overheard recently over the ether:
Lucas DC: Hi! I've got 11.38PB/s and 500TB!
Google DC: Hah! I've pulled bigger queries out of my back end.
...although I'm not quite sure what that says about Google's "interfacing preferences".
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They're certainly living a long, long time ago.
Nobody else has this sig.
Hopefully its security is better than that of the Death Star...
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