It looks like it took at least 500 Terabytes to make the trilogy of the lord of the rings. Google offers 1GB E-mail accounts, and seems to have over 79,000 CPUs doing your favorite search while indexing 4 billions pages.
To put things in perspective, it dwarfs some of the current world top supercomputers doing classified things such as intelligence processing and nuclear stockpile stewardship (until Blue Gene/L comes online) or even environmental computations. In 2001, it was taking something like in the surrounding of 50 Terabytes to produce Final Fantasy.
To put things in perspective, it dwarfs some of the current world top supercomputers doing classified things such as intelligence processing and nuclear stockpile stewardship (until Blue Gene/L comes online) or even environmental computations. In 2001, it was taking something like in the surrounding of 50 Terabytes to produce Final Fantasy.
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