A read into the 10,000 square foot server farm at weta responsible for some blockbuster renderings as king kong, lord of the rings, and most recently, avatar. The weta data center uses more than 4,000 HP BL2×220c blades in a drooling thirty four racks that comprise the computing core, made of 32 machines each with 40,000 processors and 104 terabytes of memory. In my mind some smart kid programmer should just make distributed rendering on iphone’s in china when they are all asleep and be done with all this.
