[LinuxUsers] Avatar: Made with Linux :-)

[Roger E. Rustad, Jr.]

On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 2:24 AM, Chris Penn <cantormath at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/12/what-lies-at-heart-of-avatar.html
>
> "Operating System Linux
> Oh, look: Linux. Why am I not surprised...?"
>

A link deeper in the URL, you see this...

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/12/22/the-data-crunching-powerhouse-behind-avatar/

Check out the amount of data that they were rendering:

"For the last month or more of production those 40,000 processors were
handling 7 or 8 gigabytes of data per second, running 24 hours a day. A
final copy of *Avata*r equated to 17.28 gigabytes per minute of storage. For
a 166 minute movie the rendering coordination was intense."
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