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could ccp use a d-wave to calculate querys that overwhelm nodes?
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Knights Armament
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#1 - 2013-11-24 08:27:21 UTC
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Abrazzar
Vardaugas Family
#2 - 2013-11-24 08:30:28 UTC
But fleet fights are already about d-waving.

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Knights Armament
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#3 - 2013-11-24 08:33:27 UTC
Abrazzar wrote:
But fleet fights are already about d-waving.

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ACE McFACE
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2013-11-24 11:46:44 UTC
Could CCP use Jack Lennard to calculate querys that overwhelm nodes?

Jack Lennard (2 April 1930 – 220 July 2003) was an Australian football (soccer) player.[1]

Jack Lennard began his first grade career with Cessnock in 1947, when he was 17 years old. From 1948 to 1955 he played with Lysaghts Orb(Mayfield United) and rejoined Cessnock City Club in 1956 and played there until his retirement in 1964. He played 410 first grade games for Cessnock City club. Lennard represented Australia 16 times. He made his Australian debut against China in 1953. Jack's father Percy Lennard also represented Australia and when Jack Lennard was selected to play against China they became the first New South Wales father and son to represent Australia in football. Jack Lennard played in international matches against England, New Zealand, Austria, Hungary and South Africa, as well as against the touring club side Hearts of Midlothian. The highlight of his international career was at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, playing in matches against Japan and India. Jack Lennard was voted Australian player of the series.

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Solstice Project
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2013-11-24 12:04:17 UTC
Could CCP hire a million monkeys with calculators to calculate queries that overwhelm nodes?
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Viziam
Amarr Empire
#6 - 2013-11-24 12:07:07 UTC
Solstice Project wrote:
Could CCP hire a million monkeys with calculators to calculate queries that overwhelm nodes?



Monkeys are already doing that for free, so why have CCP pay them?

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The Scope
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2013-11-24 12:40:46 UTC
Guys, cut a break for the poor hapless noob that does not know what he is talking about.

Quantum computing in it's current state is not a viable option, and CCP already has some of the most powerful hardware for running single threaded processes thanks to IBM's kind donation/partnership. The issue with EVE is slapping more servers into the grid will not make jita hold more people, it will just allow you to have more jita-like nodes that can hold that many. With it's current architecture, EVE solar systems (called nodes) can NOT have their calculation split between multiple servers, so parallel processing is right out the door.
Jessica Danikov
Network Danikov
#8 - 2013-11-24 13:39:08 UTC
'Single threaded processes' there's your problem right there and from what I know of EVE's server architecture, it's not an easily surmounted one. It's also far from the only problem EVE's servers have (the session change timer is related to problems with the underlying database, IIRC- something which CCP hopes to fix with their 'Brain in a Box' developments).

Also, nodes are not solar systems, they're server processes which, at times, can hold many low pop solar systems- that's why unrelated systems will sometimes get TiDi as they're sharing a node with a solar system under high demand. Live migration of solar systems between nodes (and a good balancing algorithm) would also be a significant advance towards more responsiveness to load.

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