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An Inside Look At Warhammer Online's Server Setup 71

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday December 31, 2009 @02:30AM from the hate-to-see-the-power-bill dept.

An article at Gamasutra provides some details on the hardware Mythic uses to power Warhammer Online, courtesy of Chief Technical Officer Matt Shaw and Online Technical Director Andrew Mann. Quoting: "At any given time, approximately 2,000 servers are in operation, supporting the gameplay in WAR. Matt Shaw commented, 'What we call a server to the user, that main server is actually a cluster of a number of machines. Our Server Farm in Virginia, for example,' Mann said, 'has about 60 Dell Blade chassis running Warhammer Online — each hosting up to 16 servers. All in all, we have about 700 servers in operation at this location.' ... 'We use blade architecture heavily for Warhammer Online,' Mann noted. 'Almost every server that we deploy is a blade system. We don't use virtualization; our software is somewhat virtualized itself. We've always had the technology to run our game world across several pieces of hardware. It's application-layer clustering at a process level. Virtualization wouldn't gain us much because we already run very close to peak CPU usage on these systems.' ... The normalized server configuration — in use across all of the Mythic-managed facilities — features dual Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors running at 3 GHz with 8 GB of RAM."

Best Mouse For Programming? 569

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 09, 2009 @05:14PM from the keep-it-away-from-cigarettes-and-drugs dept.

LosManos writes "Which is the best programming mouse? Mandatory musts are wireless, and that it doesn't clog up like old mechanical mice. Present personal preferences are for: lots of buttons, since if I have moved my hand away from the keyboard I can at least do something more than move the pointer; sturdy feeling; not too light, so it doesn't move around by me accidentally looking at it." What would you recommend?

Vista to Allow "One Significant" Hardware Upgrade 641

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday October 30, 2006 @04:24PM from the how-very-generous-of-you dept.

fiorenza writes "Ars Technica spoke with Microsoft concerning the controversial changes in Windows Vista's licensing, and they have learned that Vista will permit one 'significant' hardware change before requiring users to either appeal to Microsoft support or purchase another license. Automatic re-activation online will fail after one use. Microsoft is using a new algorithm to monitor hardware changes and enforce licensing compliance, and the company says that it is more forgiving now than it was with Windows XP."

Comment Wild Divine Project... (Score 1) 24

by leinerj on Friday May 14, 2004 @06:38PM (#9157581) Attached to: Therapy in Game Form

...is a perfect example of video games and therapy. It combines myst style navigation around areas along with bio-feedback. For instance, one "puzzle" is a fire that you need to light by concentration on your breathing etc. It uses a USB interface for the sensors on your fingers. Ton of fun. Highly recommend it.
http://www.wilddivine.com/
(mac and pc only...)

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