Intrestng article about the data center used to make Avatar (yes you heard it, a whole data center!!

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/346361/Data_Center_Plays_Supporting_Role_in_i_Avatar_i_?taxonomyId=154

Couple of facts:

• Each minute of Avatar represents 17.28GB of data
• There are 34 racks containing more than 4,000 Hewlett-Packard blade servers
• The computing core includes about 35,000 processors and 104TB of RAM

No wonder it cost $500 million to make!!