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Written by Mario Alberto Medina Nussbaum
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Saturday, 26 December 2009 02:25 |
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 The new digital blockbuster, the film Avatar, is an achievement in computer animation. Its amazing visual effects for many people. In addition, the technology used is even more surprising. We know that is done, as well as several scenes from The Lord of the Rings, by the company Weta Digital. People in Information Management visited the facilities at Weta Digital, consisting of an area of 930 m3. In 4000 the site are BL2x220c blade servers from Hewlett-Packard, distributed in 34 racks. The servers contain a total of 40,000 processors and 104 terabyte RAM. All computers are connected via optical fiber to a storage unit BluArc and NettApp containing formidable 3 Petabytes of data. The hardware is cooled with water.
Imagine, 4,000 teams together generate much heat. This arrangement is so powerful computers, which currently holds the main places  s 193 to 197 of the 500 list of fastest supercomputers in the world. But that's not all run GNU / Linux with KDE as window manager. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so you can appreciate the pictures that we put in this article, that, being familiar with the graphics settings GNU / Linux can appreciate what you say. 
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