Inside the Lucasfilm datacenter 137
passthecrackpipe writes "Where can you find a (rhetorical) 11.38 petabits per second bandwidth? It appears to be inside the Lucasfilm Datacenter. At least, that is the headline figure mentioned in this report on a tour of the datacenter. The story is a bit light on the down-and-dirty details, but mentions a 10 gig ethernet backbone (adding up the bandwidth of a load of network connections seems to be how they derived the 11.38 petabits p/s figure. In that case, I have a 45 gig network at home.) Power utilization is a key differentiator when buying hardware, a "legacy" cycle of a couple of months, and 300TB of storage in a 10.000 square foot datacenter. To me, the story comes across as somewhat hyped up — "look at us, we have a large datacenter" kind of thing, "look how cool we are". Over the last couple of years, I have been in many datacenters, for banks, pharma and large enterprise to name a few, that have somewhat larger and more complex setups."
Rendering (Score:2, Funny)
Rhetorical bandwidth? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:That's really not that large (Score:5, Funny)
I'm pretty sure Google's datacentre has evolved beyond the need for an ass.
I find it funny that Slashdot... (Score:5, Funny)
Let's break this down submission down..
"Hi. I found this article on the web that totally didn't impress me, I think they fiddled with the numbers to make themselves look better than they are, and overall I really couldn't give a shite."
Yes. Obvious front page material for a Sunday!
Re:Hmm? (Score:5, Funny)
Can we find the drive Jar-Jar is on (Score:5, Funny)
Nothing compared to my Sempron rig... (Score:3, Funny)
Why? Because my rig has never so much as contained - much less rendered - an image of Jar Jar Binks.
Pwned.
But? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:That's really not that large (Score:5, Funny)
A conversation overheard recently over the ether:
Lucas DC: Hi! I've got 11.38PB/s and 500TB!
Google DC: Hah! I've pulled bigger queries out of my back end.
...although I'm not quite sure what that says about Google's "interfacing preferences".
Re:Hmm? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Hmm? (Score:2, Funny)