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Inside The Lucasfilm Data Center Posted By Dustin on February 4, 2007
C|net's Daniel Terdiman was able to get a tour of the Lucasfilm Data Center and talked to Kevin Clark, Lucasfilm's director of IT operations. Here's a small teaser... "In fact, Clark said, the data center "far exceeds" the computing power of any other production house in the world. Click here to Play
Video: A tour of Lucasfilm data center From Web sites to e-mail to graphic rendering, all the bytes pass through here at this high-tech movie production company.
All told, the data center currently has more than 2,000 servers. At its core are 198 Verari servers, in three matching front-and-back racks of three rows of 11 servers each, all dual-core/dual-processor Operton server with 16GB of memory.
Clark said that he expects that number to double within the next month.
And with a host of projects in the pipeline, including Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Evan Almighty, the next Harry Potter film, Transformers and more, it's important that Clark and his team keep up with the company's computing needs.
"There's a large R&D effort that drives much of the this," he said, "based on the goals of the projects."
Beyond the 198 Verari servers, the center also sports row after row of "legacy" servers, including racks of 65 Angstrom Microsystems servers.
"It doesn't take long to turn legacy," Clark said. "Sometimes it's only six to seven months before we're moving on to the next technology."
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