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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."

6 of 107 comments (clear)

  1. Re:FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!

  2. IMAGINE A BEOWULF CLUSTER by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Wow!

  3. 5th post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    And the gallery is already slashdotted. Hooray. MIRROR LINKS YOU POST PLEASE!

    blah.

  4. Slashdotted already by connsmythe96 · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I hope he's not hosting the web server on the same cluster. It's already down. :)

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  5. already down by Gandalfar · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Come on.. slashdot already. Lets hope these pictures aren't on that cluster, otherwise the players will be filling a little laggy tonight ^_^

  6. doom by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    ah well; we saw, we conquered, we slashdotted!