EVE General Discussion

EvE servers use a mix of DNA-Based and Quantum Cpu's.

The motherboards and HDD are made of Elerium 115.

Thanks.

So nodes are just a process, does that mean they can grow to use at max the CPU of one of the 60 SOL blades?

A hamster can only run at a sustained top speed for a short amount of time. This forced CCP to institute a rolling chute system that swaps out hamsters every 2 minutes for a fresh one. Now, due to the increased server load were seeing, CCP has begun putting 2 hamsters in the chute at any given time, thus distributing the load between them. While this goes a long way towards easing the tiring of the hamsters, it doesn't fix the problem.

Borrowing from ideas from "The Island of Dr Moreau", CCP has been tinkering with splicing DNA of hamsters and humans. The results of which can currently be seen in the cubicles at CCP headquarters. Many cubicles (read as cages) are packed tightly together, and have simple water bottles hung over the sides. The hamster/human hybrids are fed a steady diet of pellets to maintain their energy levels. Studies have shown that these hybrids will have more stamina than their purebred hamster cousins.

Construction has already begun on the larger hybrid hamster/human chutes and the larger wheels that go with them. Engineers are nearing completion of the coupling mechanisms as well. CCP is hoping to have all this work done soon(tm). Hopefully this new source of computer power will alleviate the CPU strain currently faced by the servers and make larger fleet fights possible.

The clusters performance is limited by python not the hardware itself. Python can only run one process per core and doesnt support multi threading. The best they can do is stackless python.

…and just to continue on that, what they are doing, is working on being able to side-load certain tasks. For instance, they are developing the “brain in a box” technology that relieves the system node from having to do all the set-up calculations for pilots and ships: figuring out what skills they have, what bonuses those skills entail, what the compound effect of all those bonuses mean for the ship etc. All of it is fairly calculation- and database intensive and creates a lot of work just from a single pilot. With this tech in place, they'll be able to just send that task off to a different dedicated server that does nothing but those calculations (and which can therefore be optimised for that, and that alone).

It won't help in long fleet fights, since after everyone has entered the system at the beginning, all the set-up has already been done, but it will help with the hiccups that occur when the fleet cynos or gates into the system. It will also help immensely with Jita, where almost all the current load comes from those kinds of setup tasks, as people constantly jump or undock into the system en masse. Each problem has its own solution, though, and there is no real one-size-fits-all.

The brain-in-a-box initiative is a kind of limited multi-threading, though, but just for that one task and not for the entire system simulation as a whole. Hopefully, with time, they'll be able to figure out more subtasks that can be side-loaded in a similar manner and thus get more out of the hardware.

Fortunately I read further but at this point I was thinking "Its been done and it probably does relieve the system"

Ok, fine. Fixed.

That's total misinformation!!! The Elerium 115 is the Eve server's power source.

Gives the term "Server dump" a whole new meaning.

And about that world peace, can't people just not fight and be angry and stuffs?
How about them hunger problem in africa? Can't they just eat and it's fixed?