Several hundred Hewlett-Packard xw8600 workstations were used , along with a ` render farm ' of HP ProLiant blade servers with over 9,000 server processor cores , to process the animation sequence .
Many hundred Hewlett-Packard xw8600 workstations were used , along with a large and powerful `` render farm '' of HP ProLiant blade servers . It had over 9,000 server [ processor ] cores , to read through the animation .