Avatar = 4.5 terabytes of data processed on 4000 blade servers

Each minute of Avatar represents 17.28GB of data. It's a 2hr, 40 min movie, or 260 min, so the movie represents 4,492.8 GB. Let's round it to 4.5 terabytes. Wow.

Full article on the PC tech behind Avatar: http://tinyurl.com/yc62wqv

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