EVE General Discussion

Posting in a "I think computers are magic boxes and random words i heard in the press impress my friends, so i must be computerjesus!!!" thread.

Communication between the servers then becomes your bottleneck. Which will make thing even worse.


Just FYI:

IBM blade servers with 280 total cores, and more than 4.8 terabytes of local storage. The Tranquility cabinets require 79 kilowatts of power and are housed in a cold-aisle containment system to manage airflow and server waste heat. “Cold air from the center of the aisle is force-fed into the cabinets reducing the loss or wasted cool air significantly and helping to focus cold air where it’s needed most,” Wise writes. “This takes the industry standard “hot aisle/cold aisle” designs a step further without having to do anything crazy like running servers under nitrogen pools (although that is pretty cool).”

Internally, the network for Tranquility consists of internal fiber channel 4Gb/s backbones, with internal database communication on a separate 10Gb/s backbone.

Externally, CCP peers with multiple external transit providers and essentially acts as a tier-3 ISP, with only one customer- Tranquility.

That alone should make you... OHHH ok... understood.

Yes, we do in fact thing you are stupid, at least as far as tech is concerned. If you would like to explain your background a little better and perhaps demonstrate that you have half a clue, by all means proceed, but continuously repeating "the cloud, THE CLOUD!" doesn't make you an IT expert.

Firstly, CPP can't (can't, cannot, are unable to) distribute their load for an individual node to multiple servers, as the code they use is single threaded. One system = one CPU, so they can't even distribute it across cores.

To use your own example, imagine you have 3 tech support people doing 3 jobs which only one person can do at any one time. So for example, they are all fixing hardware located in 3 vents that you can only fit a single person in each. Now all of a sudden, those vents heat up to an insane temperature, making it very difficult to work in them. Adding more people to the equation won't get the work done quicker. At most, you could replace the person in the vent with an alternate person who will soon be in the same position as the first. The act of swapping people would take up more time than you gain, and you can't get two people into the vent. So more people are useless.

Secondly, you are comparing an already huge network of servers with clusters of web servers specifically designed to balance load. They simply aren't the same tech and can't be dealt with in the same way.

What an ignorant statement. So, you feel that anyone who was a facebook and/or twitter account is dense? Tell me, do you also judge people on the color of their skin and their country of origin?

No, just the people who take quotes out of context and make up assumptions about what was actually said.

At least now we have an answer to the OP's question: because the cloud provides zero advantages and a truckload of disadvantages. In particular, it doesn't solve any of the issues the OP is worrying about — in fact, it rather risks making them even larger issues than they are right now.

There's a reason why I asked what it was he thought it would solve.

I think what Pok was saying is "what do these have to do with it...." is a rather dense question to ask.

Yes. AND, the clothes they wear, if they eat quiche and if they post digressively, obtusely, and willfully ignorantly.

I can't tell if OP is a good troll, or just VERY tech illiterate.

OP,

You do realize that the hardware running this game is some of the most advanced stuff out there right? The I/O performance of the CCP hardware is MILES above what is being offered by cloud based hosting like Amazon and Microsoft.

Thread of the year right here.