Software: Cars Movie - 17 hrs per Frame using 3,000 computers.

The average time to render a single frame of film for "Cars" was 17 hours. Even with a sophisticated network of 3000 computers, and state-of-the-art lightning fast processors that operate up to four times faster than they did on "The Incredibles," it still took many days to render a single second of finished film.

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