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Originally Posted by multiweb
I think they used ILM (Lucas) facilities for the final rendering. Those guys have rendering farms and are geared for it. Storage must have been huge though.
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Avatar's rendering was done by Weta, not ILM. For Avatar, Weta built a 40,000 processor render farm with 100 terabytes of RAM and 3 petabytes disk storage, in Wellington. There's a good article with more technical details
here, if you're interested.
Weta's NZ render farm features
four times in the world's top 200 supercomputer list - that's a lot of hardware for a movie!