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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.