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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. um , had to say it by FidelCatsro · · Score: 1, Funny
    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.
    That's no moon , It's a space station
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    1. Re:um , had to say it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      That's not a redundant comment , its a space station!

  2. Re:What For? by koi88 · · Score: 3, Funny


    EQ doesn't have players anymore, what are the servers for?

    To keep the NPCs alive?

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  3. NO PICTURES? by mjpaci · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is geek porn! How can you talk of a room full of computers running a popular MMORPG and NOT HAVE PICTURES? /. ppl get excited about pictures of cruddy wiring in LAN closets! This article might as well be a harlequin romance novel.

    --Mike

  4. SOE glue sniffers by Fiz+Ocelot · · Score: 3, Funny
    From the article: "The NOC, a crowded room in Sony Online Entertainment's main office building, smells faintly of elementary-school glue.

    That really goes a loooong way in explaining a lot of things that go on over at SOE. I wouldn't be at all surprised if they eat it too.