The 108-minute computer-generated animated feature, which only last month won an Oscar, was put together by digital production company, Animal Logic.

IBM helped the company find a combination of technologies that allowed the entire infrastructure of more than 2,000 servers to be managed by a single person. Production began in early 2003 and was completed in October, 2006.

Xavier Desdoigts, director of technical operations at Animal Logic said Happy Feet was its first full-length computer-generated feature.

"As a result we needed huge numbers of processors in a form factor and price level that would work for our business," he said.

"We had to render 140,000 frames and each frame could take many hours to render. The photo-realistic look of the movie made our computational requirements soar to new heights."