By now I'm sure you're tired of hearing "Na'vi", "world tree" or just a reference to "blue people", yes I'm talking about Avatar. I bet you're wondering why I'm even posting about such a thing here just bear with me for at least one more sentences and I promise it will be worth your time. Suprisingly the Na'vi and Open Source have a lot more in common than we'd like to think, this is because the film Avatar was rendered by 35,000 cores running Ubuntu....yes it's not a typo or my early morning-half awake typing.
Weta Digital the studio responsible for the graphics rendering used a setup comprised of:
- a 2 Petabyte disk array
-10gbps networking
-35,000 cores (4,000+ HP blades)
and even with this setup for some of the sequences it took 48 hours to render the graphics for the sequence.
If you're interested check out the article/blog post by Dustin Kirkland. I think I'll stop there as it's really early in the morning for my tastes. Oh but class is in just a few hours....heh.
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