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Online Game Cluster

Posted by timothy on from the drool-pools dept.

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."

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  1. Link to Google Cache by wmspringer · · Score: 5, Informative

    See the site here.

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  2. supercomputer gaming by mmca · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.supercomputergaming.com/

    is doing something similar. If you cut through all the marketing hype it looks pretty cool.

    -M

  3. Re:Imagine... by kevinqtipreedy · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is already possible. I have a Mosix Cluster where all of the nodes run off of a bootdisk. They remotely mount a file system. When someone goes to sleep, i put one of the boot disks in his or her computer. All I have to do is add their mac address to the database and add their dns name or ip address to the mosix config.

  4. Slashdot effect. OT by FreeLinux · · Score: 2, Informative

    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.

  5. Genetic algorithms by jetlag11235 · · Score: 2, 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.

    -- jetlag --