Avatar’s popularity is no joke. Now second only to James Cameron’s last movie Titanic, the sci-fi flick has surely pushed some boundaries.
Crammed full of special effects, Avatar owes some if its magic to a data center located in Miramar, New Zealand.
According to Weta Digital, the visual effects company tasked with creating the images in James Cameron's flick, each minute of Avatar consumed some 17.28GB of data.
For that kind of processing power, Weta Digital tapped into a 10,000 sq. ft. server farm filled with 34 racks and over 4,000 Hewlett-Packard blade servers. According to Paul Gunn, the data center's system admin, the computing core includes about 35,000 processors and 104TB of RAM.
Now for a movie, that’s a lot of data!
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