Director James Cameron's masterpieces "Avatar" (AVATAR) received critical acclaim and audience are all shocked by the magnificent picture presented by the film. Amazing movie animation produced by WetaDigital company, we can understand from this Processing AVATAR supercomputer on the production of film special effects.
WetaDigital computing clusters in 2008 to re-design, using The HP Cluster Platform 3000 BL cluster platform as its solution, the operating system is Linux, ranking in the TOP500 supercomputers, up from the original more than 400 to more than 190 (rate The rule refers only to special cases) . Set of environment in 2008 when 4096 of the Core, 2009 to 5936 (rate The rule refers only to special cases), and not talking about 40,000, was ranked first in the TOP500 supercomputer, IBM's Roadrunner (Roadrunner) has only 120,000 nuclear only.
Total memory of 104 TBs, using inline Gigabit Ethernet, do not use Infiniband, The BL2x220c HP blade server for high-performance computing to launch its unique feature is a blade put two servers, each server has two 4-core CPU is Intel Xeon processors (EM64T technology).
The entire movie about 3PB of data stored on the BlueArc and NetApp storage, data transfer to a Fibre Channel. The film is complete one of the data is 12MB, 24, a second of data per minute, there 17.28GB whole AVATAR up to more than 160 minutes. I do not think there is such a kind of a movie which people on your own PC, and probably not play.
WetaDigital great progenitor, which is a company created by Peter Jackson (PeterJackson), to the "Lord of the Rings" to create special effects by the industry attention, in fact, there are many movies, such as "King Kong" "I, Robot" and shortly before the 2012, are also produced by the WetaDigital effects. I do not know the director of our domestic did not create a similar company, of course, I believe their use and understanding of the animation effects probably still a long way.
Computer clustering capabilities enhance certain extent, promote the development of film art, the film, the film is more attractive, the fare is more expensive. Because Moore's Law is still valid, the computing power of the computer cluster is increased year by year, the cost reduction rather than, as long as they can obtain a more stunning visual effects, the plot is not an idiot, input and output it seems it is in a clear account.
