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Engineering Everquest

Posted by Zonk on from the iron-behind-the-giant dept.

The IEEE Spectrum site has an article up discussing the engineering required to keep Norrath running. From the article: "The Death Star is a huge, warm, windowless room containing the rows and rows of servers that run Sony's online games. The whooshing of a massive air-conditioning system is so loud that conversation is almost impossible. A large steel cage surrounds more than 500 servers stacked 32 high in towering racks--and this is just one battalion, albeit the largest, in Sony's 1500-machine army of servers."

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  1. DRAMA! by Xionen · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I absolutly love the dramatization of a ..server room. it makes me *sarchastically speaking* SO happy that sony can boast about the server room we cream.. I mean dream about. The only problem is that sony has all of these pretty server rooms and money and still can't hire a team to listen to their customers or atleast do their job in the helpdesk area. I have been boycotting sony for a while, and no I do not have a ps2 in my house or ps1, and by the way it seems the downgrading of ps3 is only gonna make people get away from it too. stupid sony, being complacent ugh, if they would only listen to the little people down here underneith the money cloud they would be on top, and I am bitter. Could ya tell? right ranting post whore I am. bah.