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Inside the Lucasfilm datacenter

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the wrecking-childhoods-takes-bandwidth dept.

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."

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  1. Meh....SDSC has 2 PetaBytes of online storage by Danathar · · Score: 3, Informative

    San Diego Super Computing Center (SDSC) has 2 Petabytes of online Storage with 400TB for researchers. They have 18PB of archival tape storage.

    Still....I like datacenters. The hum of equipment. 65 degree temps and lower. I once had my cube re-located to a tape library. Quiet...peaceful place

    http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/hardware/fea tures/print.php/3634881

  2. 10.000 square foot datacenter is SMALL by Secrity · · Score: 2, Informative

    10.000 square feet for a datacenter is not very impressive. The datacenter that I work in did a relatively modest 100,000 square foot EXPANSION which was the result of absorbing an adjoining atrium. I suspect that the power equipment and air handlers may take up 10,000 square feet.

  3. Hardly a coincidence by NthDegree256 · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is the Lucasfilm datacenter. That number finds its way into all sorts of Lucas-related material.

  4. Bullshit or Calculation Error : 569 NICs/server ! by wtarreau · · Score: 2, Informative

    TFA talks about 2000 servers equipped with 10 Gbps network cards.
    11.38 Pbps is 11380 Tbps or 11380000 Gbps. This means that each
    server has 569 network interfaces !! This is total bullshit. If
    they had said they had 10*2000*2 = 40 Tbps, it would have been
    based on more real (though irrelevant) data.

    I hate it when ignorant journalists post meaningless data for public
    consumption.

    Willy