Tallaran Kouros
Caldari
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Posted - 2009.06.06 19:57:00 -
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Edited by: Tallaran Kouros on 06/06/2009 19:58:13
 Originally by: MotherMoon
SMACKS HEAD INTO DESK
while you are right in your own way, I feel as if the word server gets throw around FAR too offen.
a "server" is ALWAYS made out of multiple motherboards.
Sorry to be a pedant here, but that's not correct either.
I work in the IT industry and pretty much every server I have ever seen has just had the one motherboard, even the ESX host boxes that we run our VMs on.
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eve has one server. It is the cluster on which the server lies.
That's not correct - Eve is a single *game instance*, spanning over multiple blade servers.
Multiple systems run on each blade, with some busy systems (Jita for example) having a blade to themselves.
The information above is straight from the dev blogs - you can read them yourself.
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For instance, I have a quad core cpu. does that mean i really have 4 cpus?
You might do, depending on the manufacturing process.
My desktop has a Q6600 Core 2 Quad. It had 4 cores, but that's comprised of two individual Core 2 Duo processors manufactured onto the one die.
So 4 cores, two processors, one die.
This is due to the manufacturing process that Intel use and if I remember correctly, AMD produce 4 separate cores on the one die, which I would argue counts as 4 CPUs.
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maybe techinly it does, but it counts as ONE cpu with FOUR cores.
See above.
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and microsofts 300,000 server will also be stakcs and stacks of motherboards each with thier own rama nd such. just like ANY super computer.
Again, that really depends.
An IBM mainframe (i.e. "big iron") might well be one solid unit with multiple motherboards inside and you would be correct in that sense, and probably the same with most "super computers" that run off just one unit.
However, that's not the same with a Beowolf Cluster that can be made up of multiple commodity x86/blade servers, which would be several generic server units that are clustered together at the OS level.
It really depends how you want to look at it.
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hell, each wow shard is run on 10-20 servers.
each node can handle about 300-400 people in wow, with 5000 people on each shard.
But honestly the ***rd shard is wrong. That is from back in the day when you had to shard one motherboard to run muliple game world. We just don't work that way anymore.
*shrug*
This isn't the WoW forums :)
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