Articles Tagged as ‘Avatar’


Linux, Internet Explorer and Work Motivation

This title sums up the most popular articles on my site over the past 30 days (according to a mix of Google Analytics and Woopra statistics). Linux posts are by far the most popular. Perhaps this is simply due to the large quantity of Linux related posts I tend to make on this site, although [...]


Avatar film rendered with enormous Ubuntu server farm

It turns out that Avatar, the hugely successful science fiction epic film from James Cameron, was rendered using a huge Ubuntu rendering server farm, at Weta Digital. The Weta Digital server farm or ‘rendering wall’, as they call it, has a disk array capable of storing roughly 2 petabytes of data in total. The individual servers are [...]


Howdy! My name is Jordan Hall and you’ve reached my website for some reason. Hope you are enjoying it. If you want, I have a few more details about this website. If you are looking for a more professional overview and less general prose, take a look at my biography or my skill and experiences section.

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