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Idara
Caldari
Cutting Edge Incorporated
RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2006.10.11 21:37:00 -
[31]
Mirror SiSi.
Put Revelations on SiSi for player testing.
Update the Features page with the new goodies.
GET *****ING! 
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Pardack
Caldari
State War Academy
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Posted - 2006.10.11 21:52:00 -
[32]
Can we get some spiffeh technical details on what the cluster will contain after all of the mentioned node additions, RAMSAN and networking gear? Like how many RAMSANs are currently installed, total capacity, network pipe, unofficial place on top500 and any other geek-a-licious info you can come up with.
One question I've got is, which CPUs are being used in the LS20s? Is it dual-core, dual-cpu or dual-core and dual-cpu Opterons? Seems like there's many CPU options for them. From what I've inferred, it appears to be dual CPU/single core, but haven't seen it confirmed anywhere for sure.
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Miss Overlord
Gallente
Garoun Investment Bank
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Posted - 2006.10.11 22:03:00 -
[33]
i think they went with intel on there but hve AMD on other parts of the beast
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Blacklight
Black Nova Corp
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2006.10.11 22:53:00 -
[34]
Normally I'd applaud the addition of extra hardware, hotfixes, future code changes to improve performance but it's very difficult to be upbeat about the future despite this good news.
The current state of the game is depressing and after nearly four years of it I find it increasingly difficult to keep telling myself it'll get better when it doesn't, it gets worse.
Sorry to rain on the parade but for a great many of us involved in large scale combat (hell, not even large scale these days to be honest) the game is dying a long, slow and painful death.
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Sevarus James
Minmatar
Meridian Dynamics
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Posted - 2006.10.11 23:00:00 -
[35]
I'm going to add my request for an updated mirror here as well. Having quite a few sub one year members in my corporation, we need that mirror to adequately help with the testing.
(Tried to get a large number of Meridian pilots on for the tests last week, but a good number were either back to nublet status, or were unable to log in at all.)
Exellent blog Oveur, looking forward to it.
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mechtech
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Posted - 2006.10.11 23:12:00 -
[36]
Good news, but I think i'm right in thinking that a majority of the new nodes will go to the new regions.
We still need dynamic load balancing or something similar to fix the lag for fleet battles, but this should fix lag for everything else, i'm glad we are getting this
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Pardack
Caldari
State War Academy
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Posted - 2006.10.11 23:52:00 -
[37]
Edited by: Pardack on 11/10/2006 23:53:30
 Originally by: Miss Overlord
i think they went with intel on there but hve AMD on other parts of the beast
Other way around :) Yaardware Blog
Originally by: Oveur
OK, I can take a hint. The new Tranquility consists of 70 x IBM LS20 AMD Opteron Blades, each Blade sporting two 2.4 GHz 64-bit Opteron processors with 2-4 GB of RAM, depending on application. That's a 140 CPUs, a full replacement of the current 140 Intel XEON 2.8 GHz CPUs.
What I didn't see is if they're using dual-core and counting that as two CPUs, or using two single core CPUs OR two dual-core. I believe the SQL servers are using Intel though.
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Bagehi
Caldari
BFG Industries
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Posted - 2006.10.12 00:06:00 -
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Just curious if CCP is planning on using some of those servers to hold the load from major fleet battles. I can think of a specific one that occurred over the weekend, and caused the node to crash repeatedly. And some frustrated GMs getting on and trying to keep the poor thing alive while players had their fun. Anyway... is it even possible to move a section of a node to a different server or is that physically impossible? I can only imagine the amount of data that would have to be shifted...
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Pardack
Caldari
State War Academy
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Posted - 2006.10.12 00:58:00 -
[39]
Originally by: Bagehi
Just curious if CCP is planning on using some of those servers to hold the load from major fleet battles. I can think of a specific one that occurred over the weekend, and caused the node to crash repeatedly. And some frustrated GMs getting on and trying to keep the poor thing alive while players had their fun. Anyway... is it even possible to move a section of a node to a different server or is that physically impossible? I can only imagine the amount of data that would have to be shifted...
The way CCP has it structured load is only balanced during downtimes. Subsequently, when fleets move and finally meet in a system, it has already previously been balanced using the average load in the past few days. Currently what you ask is not possible.
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Iconath
Minmatar
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Posted - 2006.10.12 02:18:00 -
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Edited by: Iconath on 12/10/2006 02:20:09
Nice blog Oveur. I am sorry if you had to sell your car again for a new Ramsan 
Yay for more hardware. I like new toys too.
Originally by: Oveur
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Andrew Gunn
Frontline Defense Force
Maelstrom Alliance
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Posted - 2006.10.12 02:22:00 -
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With all the new nodes coming in, might it be possible to have more resources dedicated to systems with conquerable outposts?
Most all fighting with fleets seems to happen around POSes and stations right now, so that might help a bit. But, then again I don't have a clue what goes on behind the iron curtain.
Whatever problems that are currently effecting TQ, I'm sure you guys (CCP) are working hard to fix it. That or you're using the nerfbat to make other people work hard to fix it. 
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Miss Overlord
Gallente
Garoun Investment Bank
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Posted - 2006.10.12 02:40:00 -
[42]
sub divide resources to POSes , conqueroable stations and gates firstly
That said its always been an ongoing issue and CCP do their best.
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Sosus Red
Caldari
Thunderbolts
The Cyrene Initiative
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Posted - 2006.10.12 06:13:00 -
[43]
CCP, have a great time in spain!!! I wish my former employer, I recently quit to start own business, took me on trip for team building. We were lucky to get luch once in a while  .
Great companies are the ones that treat thier employees great while still making a profit. GJ CCP.
have a great time and get back and kick some Kali butt!!!
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Kuolematon
Space Perverts and Forum Warriors United
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Posted - 2006.10.12 06:19:00 -
[44]
Originally by: "Oveur"
To sum it up, in Samuel L. Jackson's immortal words:
"We're on the m***********"
Did you ask permission for this via eve-mail? 
Unnerf Amarr!Ö
"I read somewhere that Kali will be featuring turn-based combat to increase immersion." ¬ Waagaa Ktlehr
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Mr Xzomo
Carebear Industries
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Posted - 2006.10.12 07:03:00 -
[45]
Edited by: Mr Xzomo on 12/10/2006 07:04:44
Can't we pleeeease have some images from the server hall 
And thanx for a nice blog !!!
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Hygelac
Body Count Inc.
Mercenary Coalition
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Posted - 2006.10.12 08:36:00 -
[46]
Firstly I'd like to say how deeply appreciated these blogs are, most of us from other MMO communities will understand how unique CCP is in itÆs responsiveness and general communications with the customer i.e. Us. :)
Now hereÆs the bad bit. In over 2 years of playing Eve, I think I can safely say that IÆve never seen the game in a worse state than it is currently, and itÆs at the current point where even the hardcore cadre of optimists are starting to loose faith in CCPÆs ability to actually pull this off.
I think CCPÆs shining moment in terms of hardware and performance was the introduction of the new cluster. We all marvelled at the smoothness of the change-over, we all wowÆed in corp chat about how smooth the whole game was and lag-free the fights were. Sure by the time you got to 100v100 fights things were still a bit laggy, but even those fights were noticeably improved. Before long people were deploying 150 man fleets against one another and I even saw the odd 200 man blob in combat à a testament to CCPÆs hard work and the organizational abilities of the player base.
When was that? March? April à I canÆt remember the specific date. But I can safely say than since that point Eve has been progressively worse and worse and even worse. I think itÆs safe to say that I lived through some pretty bad days pre-RMR/Ramsan but even those bad times are like a momentary blip compared to the current poor state of things:
IÆve started to see threads and strategies on how to deal with ænode-crashesÆ and how to create node crashes, and drastic measures by the DevÆs which seem to make little difference at all. Things are at the point where anything more than 50 on 50 is risking a node crash and when the node comes back, the basic mechanics of the game, even those goals people were fighting over in the first place were bugged/unstable until the next down time.
WeÆve seen systems loosing sovereignty, POSes shooting friendlies/not shooting hostiles, IÆve even seen station settings no longer working allowing whole fleets of enemies access to assets they have previously lost. The worst point for me is where things have gotten so bad that GMs have had to intervene in normal player activities and have even influenced the course of combats, all in an effort to try and keep the servers up.
Eve has never been better than it is today, but at the same time, itÆs never been more unplayable and that is frustrating us (and no doubt you guys too) to the point of tears. I think I speak for the majority of the player base when I express my admiration and love for this game, When even the die-hards are starting to loose faith, there is a serious problem: ôThis cannot continue.ö
If it requires a slow down in new content/functionality deployment then so be it. Shiny toys are great, but what use are the toys when we canÆt play with them. WeÆre with you Oveur, please make Eve great again, whatever it takes!
Signed Eve Fan-boi #413,514,165
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Yumi Katanawe
Caldari
Demon Womb
Xelas Alliance
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Posted - 2006.10.12 09:38:00 -
[47]
As a citizen of Barcelona, two warnings for the dev team:
a) you better bring a mobile lab to analyze any "sangria" you happen to order unless you wanna spend the weekend under medical care and assistance.
b) about 80% of the pay-girls on the street used to be men - don't let the boobs fool you!
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Tarnish Katharr
GoonFleet
GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2006.10.12 09:52:00 -
[48]
Hey that's great... where's my Sovereignity skill mate? Who I gotta cut around here?
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voodoo
Evolution
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2006.10.12 10:58:00 -
[49]
Well new nodes more servers thats great considering you're bringing 8 new regions into play with kali.
Im sorry I've been here since beta and Ive seen so many promises, so many blogs like this. Theres really nothing new in this and nothing unexpected. More of the same.
What game can you fire a weapon and then wait 30 sec for it to fire?
Yeah im ****ed the game I love is just feeding me BS.
I lub you all wish you all the best and egerly await what new toys and better performance "kali" will bring.
Since Ive been here soooo long I can say that it will pretty much be the same. Show me, Show me why, Show me soon.
The Blue Pills Make Me Happy
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Magunus
The Forsakened Few
The ARR0W Project
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Posted - 2006.10.12 12:45:00 -
[50]
Originally by: Pardack
Can we get some spiffeh technical details on what the cluster will contain after all of the mentioned node additions, RAMSAN and networking gear? Like how many RAMSANs are currently installed, total capacity, network pipe, unofficial place on top500 and any other geek-a-licious info you can come up with.
One question I've got is, which CPUs are being used in the LS20s? Is it dual-core, dual-cpu or dual-core and dual-cpu Opterons? Seems like there's many CPU options for them. From what I've inferred, it appears to be dual CPU/single core, but haven't seen it confirmed anywhere for sure.
If I'm reading this right, they're dual CPU dual core 64 bit opterons. Towards the end he mentions 70 LS20s and 140 CPUs. He also mentions that the CPUs are 2.4 GHz, and if you follow the link to the servers, and look at features and benefits, the only way to get 2.4 GHz is to go with dual core, single cores are 2.8 GHz.
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Magunus
The Forsakened Few
The ARR0W Project
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Posted - 2006.10.12 12:47:00 -
[51]
Edited by: Magunus on 12/10/2006 12:48:10
edit - dbl post.
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Annatar
The Galactic Empire
Lotka Volterra
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Posted - 2006.10.12 14:13:00 -
[52]
I think we (the community) have lost a little overview on what Hardware (serverside) we are playing.
New Pictures included into a new Yaardware Blog would be sooo
Sweeeet.
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jamesw
Omniscient Order
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Posted - 2006.10.12 14:19:00 -
[53]
Originally by: Annatar
I think we (the community) have lost a little overview on what Hardware (serverside) we are playing.
New Pictures included into a new Yaardware Blog would be sooo
Sweeeet.
*stomps feet in agreement*
Need Juicy Hardware Pro.... erm Pics!
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Pardack
Caldari
State War Academy
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Posted - 2006.10.12 15:05:00 -
[54]
Originally by: Magunus
Originally by: Pardack
Can we get some spiffeh technical details on what the cluster will contain after all of the mentioned node additions, RAMSAN and networking gear? Like how many RAMSANs are currently installed, total capacity, network pipe, unofficial place on top500 and any other geek-a-licious info you can come up with.
One question I've got is, which CPUs are being used in the LS20s? Is it dual-core, dual-cpu or dual-core and dual-cpu Opterons? Seems like there's many CPU options for them. From what I've inferred, it appears to be dual CPU/single core, but haven't seen it confirmed anywhere for sure.
If I'm reading this right, they're dual CPU dual core 64 bit opterons. Towards the end he mentions 70 LS20s and 140 CPUs. He also mentions that the CPUs are 2.4 GHz, and if you follow the link to the servers, and look at features and benefits, the only way to get 2.4 GHz is to go with dual core, single cores are 2.8 GHz.
I saw that as well, but note the "up to 2.40GHz" and "up to 2.80GHz", these are maximums. They very well could be running single-cores @ 2.4GHz.
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Kaz Empire
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Posted - 2006.10.12 15:55:00 -
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Yay to Revelations coming in next week :D
But yeah same question : How old will the mirror be ? I'd really love to get a real fresh mirror like only 2-3 days to really get an idea of what will my ships' bonuses/stats be TQ w/Revelations ^^
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Amarr Citizen 13513
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Posted - 2006.10.12 16:28:00 -
[56]
It won't matter how much new hardware you add you're still using python aaaaaaaargh :(
Does your backend code have a lot of wierd stuff in it or something? I'm betting the servers would speed up hugely if you rewrote everything in C++.
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Magunus
The Forsakened Few
The ARR0W Project
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Posted - 2006.10.12 16:35:00 -
[57]
Originally by: Pardack
Originally by: Magunus
Originally by: Pardack
Can we get some spiffeh technical details on what the cluster will contain after all of the mentioned node additions, RAMSAN and networking gear? Like how many RAMSANs are currently installed, total capacity, network pipe, unofficial place on top500 and any other geek-a-licious info you can come up with.
One question I've got is, which CPUs are being used in the LS20s? Is it dual-core, dual-cpu or dual-core and dual-cpu Opterons? Seems like there's many CPU options for them. From what I've inferred, it appears to be dual CPU/single core, but haven't seen it confirmed anywhere for sure.
If I'm reading this right, they're dual CPU dual core 64 bit opterons. Towards the end he mentions 70 LS20s and 140 CPUs. He also mentions that the CPUs are 2.4 GHz, and if you follow the link to the servers, and look at features and benefits, the only way to get 2.4 GHz is to go with dual core, single cores are 2.8 GHz.
I saw that as well, but note the "up to 2.40GHz" and "up to 2.80GHz", these are maximums. They very well could be running single-cores @ 2.4GHz.
Ah, you're right, I missed the 'up to' part. Sorry about that.
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Monica Foulkes
Hooligans Of War
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Posted - 2006.10.12 16:42:00 -
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Nice to see a 43% boost to the number of nodes.
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kieron
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Posted - 2006.10.12 17:31:00 -
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Texas Memory Systems sent the new RAMSAN out today and is on its way to the server inLondon, UK for installation. Depending on when UK Customs clears it, installation will most likely be within the next 2 weeks.
More announcements, including the installation date and expected downtime, will be made in the near future.
kieron
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Bagehi
Caldari
BFG Industries
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Posted - 2006.10.12 18:13:00 -
[60]
We eagerly look forward to the new hardware and the stability it will provide!
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