One Data Center To Rule Them All

1sockchuck writes "Weta Digital, the New Zealand studio that created the visual effects for the 'Lord of the Rings' movie trilogy, has launched a new "extreme density" data center to provide the computing horsepower to power its digital renderings. Weta is running four clusters that are each equipped with 156 of HP's new 2-in-1 blade servers, and use liquid cooling to manage the heat loads. The Weta render farms currently hold spots 219 through 222 on the current Top 500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers."

Re:And mega bill for bandwidth?

[OttoM]

As if a datacenter like this would use a capped ADSL line... You do not have to use the public internet. At some point, it becomes cheaper to use dedicated connections between your offices and datacenters.

Re:Yet the quality of their work...

[Jearil]

Or you're just a film snob that disagrees with the majority of normal people who actually liked the movie because it looked good and was entertaining.

And why is it that people always have to look down their noses at various items that do well in the general public? It's like if it's popular and the unwashed masses salivate over it, some jackass has to show how superior they are by being different and telling the world that those unwashed masses really are in fact, unwashed. And probably drooling or something.

Get over yourself.

Re:Yet the quality of their work...

[Schnoogs]

I never once commented on the overall quality of the movie...reading comprehension goes a long way. How ironic that you posted "get over yourself". Take a dose of your own advice and spare me the unwarranted, fanboy rant.

FAIL

Re:Yet the quality of their work...

[CaptPungent]

Wow. So what you're saying then is that you don't do film-grade compositing for a living and are thus a troll?

Here's a hint: It's not what you said, but how you said it.