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Article Search Advanced Search Ultrafast Storage Fuels Incredible Hulk Battle Scenes By Brian Fonseca Jun 14, 2008, 13:45 Hired by Marvel Entertainment Inc. to help bring a 9-foot-tall gamma-powered superhero to life on the big screen in The Incredible Hulk, officials at the Soho VFX Inc. special effects facility needed massive amounts of storage to help its artists create digitally-rendered fight scenes for the film, which opens Friday in U.S. theaters. Soho VFX used a BlueArc Corp. Titan 2200 series server to generate approximately 150 digital camera frames -- totaling 16TB -- for the live-action movie, said Berj Bannayan, a co-founder and software engineer at Toronto-based Soho VFX. During the peak period of production, the Fibre Channel storage device delivered content at 600-700MB/sec. to the workstations and Dell servers of artists who were building the special effects for the movie. Click www.computerworld.com for the whole story. Email this article  Printer friendly page