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Powering "Legend of the Guardians": a supercomputer story

Sydney animation house Animal Logic gives iTnews a look at the latest server cluster used to render "Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole", which opened in cinemas yesterday.

on Oct 1 2010 11:06AM

Animal Logic's blade render farm at Equinix data centre, Sydney.

The render farm - over 11,000 nodes in one beastly networked cluster.

Animal Logic render farm behind co-lo cage with double density HP BL2x220c blade servers.

Reverse view of the Animal Logic render farm including HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosures with HP BL2x220c blade servers.

Alex Timbs, Head of IT, Animal Logic in the blade render farm.

Water cooling system at the Animal Logic blade render farm.

Artists at Animal Logic working on "Legend of the Guardians".

Timbs and his team found watching the film especially rewarding after building and managing the system to create it.

Animal Logic render farm behind co-lo cage with double density HP BL2x220c blade servers.

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