{"id":97889,"date":"2009-12-24T03:37:01","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T08:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2009\/12\/24\/the-data-crunching-powerhouse-behind-%e2%80%98avatar%e2%80%99-voices\/"},"modified":"2009-12-24T03:37:01","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T08:37:01","slug":"the-data-crunching-powerhouse-behind-%e2%80%98avatar%e2%80%99-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/97889","title":{"rendered":"The Data-Crunching Powerhouse Behind \u2018Avatar\u2019 [Voices]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>By John Rath, Contributor, Data Center Knowledge<\/p>\n<p>It takes a lot of data center horsepower to create the stunning visual effects behind blockbuster movies such as King Kong, X-Men, the Lord of the Rings trilogy and most recently, James Cameron\u2019s $230 million Avatar.  Tucked away in Wellington, New Zealand are the facilities where visual effects company Weta Digital renders the imaginary landscapes of Middle Earth and Pandora at a campus of studios, production facilities, soundstages and a purpose-built data center.<\/p>\n<p>The 10,000 square foot server farm manages thousands of work orders and a serious amount of data.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.datacenterknowledge.com\/archives\/2009\/12\/22\/the-data-crunching-powerhouse-behind-avatar\/\">Read the rest of the post at the original site.<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Buy This Item: <a class=\"buy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/buy.php\" ><span style=\"color: #33bc03\">[Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/voices.allthingsd.com\/20091224\/the-data-crunching-powerhouse-behind-%E2%80%98avatar%E2%80%99\/?mod=ATD_rss\" >Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Rath, Contributor, Data Center Knowledge It takes a lot of data center horsepower to create the stunning visual effects behind blockbuster movies such as King Kong, X-Men, the Lord of the Rings trilogy and most recently, James Cameron\u2019s $230 million Avatar. Tucked away in Wellington, New Zealand are the facilities where visual effects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}