Industrial Light & Magic uses high-speed NAS servers with
a distributed file system, 10gb/sec Ethernet, and a
5000-node renderfarm to store and move 170tb of content
By Barbara Robertson
When George Lucas moved a large part of his filmmaking empire
from San Rafael, California-a small town north of San Francisco-into
a state-of-the-art, four-building complex on 17 acres of parkland in
San Francisco’s Presidio, he spared no detail. Lawrence Halprin, the
renowned landscape architect, even rearranged individual rocks in
the babbling brook that rambles through the campus to achieve the
most pleasing sound.
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