By: Swoosh

Swoosh — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:29:38 +0000

WOW massive render farm eh, how long it took for
their servers to render all the 3d scenes that
made up the whole movie? Did they set it up on
batch rendering? I mean, Pixar’s rack mounted
server render farm the size of a typical 24
person long tabled meeting room rendered the Toy
Story 3 movie in less than 2 hours though the
textures and the animation settings they set in
each characters and scenes are not so realistic
as those in Avatar’s characters and environment.
My guess is, the producers of Avatar have spent
around 5 to 10 million dollars for the rendering
services.

By: Linux, Internet Explorer and Motivation | Jordan Hall

Linux, Internet Explorer and Motivation | Jordan Hall — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 12:43:43 +0000

[...] Avatar server farm – Avatar, the film, which I’m sure most readers have seen was rendered with a massive Linux server farm. The server farm’s main rendering machines all ran a version of the Ubuntu. As Ubuntu is my currently preferred distribution of Linux, I figured I would write an article relating to it. [...]

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