Slimming Down a Supercomputer 64
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from the render-farm-porn dept.
from the render-farm-porn dept.
1sockchuck writes "Happy Feet animator Dr. D Studios has packed a large amount of supercomputing power into a smaller package in its new render farm in Sydney, Australia. The digital production shop has consolidated the 150 blade chassis used in the 2007 dancing penguin feature into just 24 chassis, entirely housed in a hot-aisle containment pod. The Dr. D render farm has moved from its previous home at Equinix to the E3 Pegasus data center in Sydney. ITNews has a video and photos of the E3 facility."
Priceless (Score:5, Funny)
Cost of real estate in prime metropolitan area - $15 million
Cost of state of the art server rocks - $30 million
Cost of flying in a cooler the size of a small bus on a 747 - $2 million
Cost of seeing data center employee's face when they realise they're on call 24/7 for no extra cash - Priceless.
About relocating supercomputing power to Australia (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Tried to check out the E3 Networks site (Score:5, Funny)
Re:About relocating supercomputing power to Austra (Score:2, Funny)
Not only that they are also upside down.
Re:About relocating supercomputing power to Austra (Score:1, Funny)
It's ok, they just flip the servers upside-down.