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The RenderFarm was comprised of 87 dual processor and 30 four-processor Sun workstations, as well as one eight-processor stations. This allowed for the execution of 16 billion instructions per minute. If they had used one processor, it would have taken them a total of 43 years to make the movie. The movie (which consists of 1500 shots and 114, 000 frames) took approximately 800,000 computer hours to create. Each frame used approximately 300 megabytes of data, and took 2 to 13 hours to create.

On that note we're running a competition to win one of 10 RamNode SSD VPS this month:

A ComputerLINK storage node built for an OpenStack environment, e5620 CPU, 24/49 GB of RAM. Capacity depends on how the storage gets distributed by the OpenStack setup but this particular server can hold up to 72GB+

A rare picture from inside one of the Rackspace datacenters, this was used to promote their Cloud Block Storage service which is built on OpenStack (of which Rackspace is one of the core contributors behind Red Hat).

Goes to show you can do things in a simple way, especially when you have thousands of these things all running in a DC.

TACC Stampede Cluster - 6,400 Nodes containing Intel Xeon Phi  processors, total number of cores are 102,400 with 205TB of RAM & 14PB of storage. Peak performance of this beast sits at 7+ PetaFlops.

Rack of SuperMicro servers in the Linode Atlanta datacenter.

Sexy casing too <3

Hot-swapping the disks in a Sun Fire x4540 Storage Server.

HP 3PAR T-Class high density storage solution, stores up to 800TB in a full rack. Maximum of 40 drives per enclosure. All connected up to an 8 Gbs fibre channel.

HP Proliant Generation 8, 2 x Intel Xeon® E5-2620 (2.0GHz/6-core/95W), 64GB of DDR3-1333 & 6 x 136GB 15k SAS HDD.

EMC² high performance VNX series SAN configurable up to 256TB per unit.

NetApp racks at FatCow including two FAS3050 SAN which hold up to 126TB of storage.

Cisco M3 blade with 196GB of RAM.

This is what 768GB of RAM looks like.

Why? This is a setup for a company that does a lot of apple development so they need lots of machines to test apps.