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Online Game Cluster
axehind writes "Carlo Daffara posted to the openMosix mailing list about his game cluster. It's a 6 node cluster using Athlon XP cpus and running linux & openmosix (with some qdisc trickery) for the OS. It is used to host approximately 1000 users playing online games, like Jedi Knight and Quake III. Here's a link (italian) to the pictures."
Don't imagine a beowulf cluster of these.
This is slightly offtopic, but RDMA for GigE is nearing finalization. I would imagine this will play as a huge win for these clustering technologies.
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It is used to host approximately 1000 users playing online games
More like "It was used to..."
During the standard slash/dot.ing period, the cluster probably serves about two Quake players at max.
That same cluster spec running 1 instance of a game for someone to play on :).
Someday I hope for clustering software to be to the point where when someone at a LAN party goes to sleep, their processing power can be used to help other machines.
Even with all that power and bandwidth, it still cannot withstand the almighty force of the /. effect.
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OpenMosix is used for load balancing, allowing processess to migrate during runtime.. I wonder what happens if you are trying to "gib/frag" someone and the server process migrates to another node .. ;-)
It seems to me it would make more sense to use only the mentioned queue-system to position the games evenly.
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Aristotele
http://www.supercomputergaming.com/
is doing something similar. If you cut through all the marketing hype it looks pretty cool.
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Now imagine a CLIC cluster of these....
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Yep, ping times will skyrocket, no more gaming, all thanks to slashdot.
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Somebody should post this to Slashdot.org: How to assemble your own game server with openMosix
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Your welcome.
but does this really count as ONE BIG SERVER for each game? if not, what is the advantage to having a single-entrance point of failure for the whole lot, when you could just use multiple independent servers?
Holy Gaming Mania Batman!... Sign me up!
That uses all CPU resources of a cluster, and leap 10 years into the future?
The AI would use genetic algorithms, the sound would have every echo and diffusion effect possible, the graphics would use real-time raytracing, and the level count would be as extreme poly as possible. Simply spare nothing when it comes to CPU power, and just let it fly.
Just use nothing but outright raw CPU power to render the whole thing.
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Here's a link (italian) to the pictures.
I've always heard that a picture is worth 1000 words, but no one ever mentioned I'd have to translate them all into English.
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The Slashdot effect is beyond "getting old" now. I'm sick of story after story that is inaccessible.
It's just so lame now. Oh, by the way, posting is still broken.
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It used to host approximately 1000 users playing online games
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good thing it's in italy and not in greece. gaming times 1000 counts of conspiracy would be bad ;).
Clusternig is not a buzz word.
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That was friggen funny. Wow. Didn't expect to see an actual funny comment on slashdot.
Pity it will probably be moderated down by an overly cautious moderator who thinks any form of humour that even hints at racism is a bad thing and must be censored.
We toyed around with openmosix, "borrowing" some hardware at work. It was interesting to see what types of processes would be migrated to other cpus and which ones were simply not movable. We ended up running distributed.net threads until our hardware hijacking was discovered (hard to miss ~30 2RU servers). I would guess their tweaks facilitate easier process migration?
It's automatic. You'll know you'll have the +1 bonus when you see a checkbox titled " No Score +1 Bonus" next to the "Post Anonymously" checkbox. You can use that if you don't want to use the bonus for that particular post.
How about: before posting we see if we can get permission to cache locally (on slashdot). Obviously this isnt always possible, but in the case of small websites it might be practical, and even polite to do.
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Sorry for getting you in Karma trouble. Stupid really. They don't see what you are replying to and then you get raped for it.
do the moderators even check what they are modding? how does this link to goase.cx get rated *informative*?
"True to life" AI, does not imply good "Game" AI.
Genetic algorithms do not imply "true to life" algorithms. They are merely a general method used to search for good solutions in difficult optimization problems.
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Why dosen't /. show cached pages, we get the point... offering cached pages would sure be nice.
I didn't know quake 3 or jedi knight 2 could be parallel processed. Did they have to modify the quake 3 server in anyway? anyone know?
Regarding the issues in the FAQ, most of the news isnt time critical, especially if its a link to a small site. So waiting 6 hours isnt a big deal. Despite the FAQ response I think it would still be a good idea.
In response to worrying about if the content changed: First of all it wouldnt be a big deal and second of all, how much harder would it be to recache it every 5-10 min ?
I think its time someone went ahead, thought it though and implemented it.
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Do they actaully treat it as one node, and let mosix take care of everything....
or do they use it as a normal cluster, running different servers on different nodes, and just have mosix there for the hell of it.
are there tutorials out there on this kind of stuff? this seems very interesting to me and I would like to play around at home with a few machines I have.
I wonder how hot and loud six Athlon XPs get. Seeing as how MY box is about -30dB of noise, with ONE Athlon XP, I can't imagine what this would be like. Then again, it might be good if it's an aluminium box -- they could just put a coffee decanter on top of it for those long nights of fragging.
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1. Story with links is posted.
2. One thousand Steve Barkto set their bots to obliterate the sites linked.
3. Steve Barktos then submit bogus and self moderated crap, including "slashdot effect complaints".
In this case, the link was quicly mirrored by someone with VA System like networking bandwith and ability to kill bots. It must be tough reading Slashdot from a Microsoft owned IP address .
I'd love to see Slashdot prove my assertions, just as much as I'd love to see all of these threads modded to -1 off topic. It gets in the way.
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This thing must eat up a whole bunch of power that w/ six PSUs there.
Then what is it? It's not in any of my dictionaries...
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