Bericht aus dem Lucasfilm Rechenzentrum

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"...Granted, that number--which represents the value one would get by adding up the bandwidth capacity of all the company's 1 gigabit per second desktop machines and its 10-gbps backbone--is purely theoretical. But in an environment like Lucasfilm, which is celebrating four Oscar nominations this week, and where self-referential history is a big parlor game, numbers like that are nothing to be messed with.

"If the systems go down here in corporate, you might not have your e-mail for a couple hours," said Greg Grusby, ILM's technical publicist. "If the systems go down in this data center, you lose $50 million..."

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And that's crucial, since films like Pirate of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, for which ILM received a best visual effects Oscar nomination Tuesday, can require 60 terabytes of storage, Clark said. And the next release in that franchise's series, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, will likely require at least 50 percent more storage, he said.

Zitat von kiu

Transformers is auch dabei

Ich glaub nicht das "13th Floor" dort gedreht wurde. Würd ja da George auszucken

Zitat von TOM

muahha zitat ausm video: "there where about 4000 frames in this shot and one frame took about 23 hours to render"

böse

Zitat von TOM

hmm?

4000 frames x 23 stunden (je frame)