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anyone know what specs was of the computer made the avatar movie?
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Over 4,000 HP BL2x220c blade computers, over 40,000 processors, over 100TB of RAM and around 3 PB of storage.
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Believe it or not: Avatar takes 1 petabyte of storage space, equivalent to a 32 YEAR long MP3.
Avatar, the movie Oscar winning Director James Cameron, is now the world’s most expensive movie ever made. The movie has received enormous praise, particularly from the movie and tech blogosphere who have been blown away by the films 3D and
Avatar - The Computing power behind the movie - RenderNow
Ever wonder what kind of computing power it takes to create fantastic visual effects for movies like James Cameron’s Avatar? The simple answer is, a lot. And when you need superior computing to crunch the numbers for those awesome looking movie effects, major Hollywood movie productions often...
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As is common with most movies it is a rendering farm. See https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/12/22/the-data-crunching-powerhouse-behind-avatar. And 2009 was a long time ago as far these data centers go.
My guess the new data center in Wellington and elsewhere are much more powerful. The new Wellington campus is very big and had some large data facilities even a couple of years ago when they were just starting.
My guess the new data center in Wellington and elsewhere are much more powerful. The new Wellington campus is very big and had some large data facilities even a couple of years ago when they were just starting.
We could make it one by calculating how many M1 minis we would need to get the same performance in 2021 vs 2010.
...and with only 8GB of RAM.Sure it is, everyone knows a MacBook Air M1 could do the same job these days.
One could but that misses that the real reason the link all these systems together in a computer room is to make a fast pipeline with a lot of steps having little to do with graphics processing.
One M1 Mac mini could handle it, no problem. Probably even one with 8GB of memory, cause, you know it’s better at handling memory than Intel Macs were.
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in 2008 Weta Digitals compute farm was rebuilt with 4,000 systems HP BL2x220c Blades - https://rendernow.co.uk/computing-rendering-behind-avatar/
The 8-Bit Guy on YouTube has a great selection of computer history, Apple or others.
https://www.youtube.com/user/adric22/videos
Back in 2009-2010 I read a article about the Avatar music score being created with Mac Pro’s of the time and Pro Tools.
Here’s a article that describes it at the end of the article and the difference between doing Titanic and Avatar and the technological advancements that’s occurred between the 2 films.
It describes a Mac Pro with 16Gig of ram.
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Here’s a article that describes it at the end of the article and the difference between doing Titanic and Avatar and the technological advancements that’s occurred between the 2 films.
It describes a Mac Pro with 16Gig of ram.
Creating Avatar’s Soundtrack with Sibelius and Pro Tools
Learn how Pro Tools Ultimate and Sibelius gave composer James Horner and other audio pros the workflows they needed to create Avatar’s epic soundtrack.