DreamWorks: 'Storage Is a Way of Life'


	DreamWorks: 'Storage Is a Way of Life'

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5-30-2008 9:17 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/89dc0277-4c99-4e46-a390-6a361ef1b01d/3B5A89FD-B522-4D10-AACB-FC405ABEB2F6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Storage/DreamWorks-Storage-is-a-Way-of-Life/?kc=EWKNLSTR053008FEA1" href="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Storage/DreamWorks-Storage-is-a-Way-of-Life/?kc=EWKNLSTR053008FEA1" style="font-size: 11px;">www.eweek.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Storage/DreamWorks-Storage-is-a-Way-of-Life/?kc=EWKNLSTR053008FEA1"><DIV>SANTA CLARA, Calif.—DreamWorks, the maker of computer-generated movies that has produced such hit films as "Shrek," "Madagascar" and "Bee Movie," knows what it's talking about when the topic is high-performance <A class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="#" target="_blank" itxtdid="5996577">computing</A>.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Storage/DreamWorks-Storage-is-a-Way-of-Life/?kc=EWKNLSTR053008FEA1"><DIV>
"In 1999, when I arrived here, we had a total of 140 cores [processors], and now we have more than 10,000 of them—in fact, I've lost count," Miller said. "We used to have to physically share the most powerful <A class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="#" target="_blank" itxtdid="5915193">computers</A> by putting them in boxes and shipping them from one studio to another to get a movie done. Sometimes we'd have fistfights over the RAM, because memory used to cost $4,000 to $5,000 per megabyte back then.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Storage/DreamWorks-Storage-is-a-Way-of-Life/?kc=EWKNLSTR053008FEA1"><DIV>
DreamWorks' latest <A class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="#" target="_blank" itxtdid="5915190">computer</A> graphics film, "Kung Fu Panda," which debuts June 6 and was created in a three-dimensional-like style, took more than 25 million CPU hours and about three years to make, Miller said. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Storage/DreamWorks-Storage-is-a-Way-of-Life/?kc=EWKNLSTR053008FEA1">
"Kung Fu Panda" is the most advanced CG movie made thus far, Miller said, because of the 3D-like nature of the production.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3B5A89FD-B522-4D10-AACB-FC405ABEB2F6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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