Inside Lucasfilm's Data Center

In a c|net news article, Daniel Terdiman reports on the staggering capacity of Lucasfilm's data center. The article includes some insight into the needs of a large production and visual effects studio.

"If the systems go down here in corporate, you might not have your e-mail for a couple hours," said Greg Grusby, ILM's technical publicist. "If the systems go down in this data center, you lose $50 million."

Utilising such state of the art equipment as Verari twin dual processor AMD servers with 16Gb ram each. Systimax fiber networking, giving 10Gbps rates to the 198 core servers.

Interestingly, they claim that the hardware becomes 'legacy' very quickly, in which case, I have one question; what do they do with the legacy servers?

Read the full article and see some amazing pictures of the data center at ...

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