FIRST
So, just what IS the coolant for that liquid cooler?

IGÇÖd often arrive at work in the early hours of the morning and find one of them lovingly stroking it in the back room.

FIRST
So, just what IS the coolant for that liquid cooler?

the happy 'froggrammer is terrifying, I think I need to go self destruct a pod or two lose the memory. or those tasty server pics might do the trick mmmmm liquid cooling

I have been known to frighten small children.

Why, I would have thought that was obvious. Hamster juice ofc

C'mon CCP, don't be so secretive: The CPUs in use are Intel Xeon X5698 - Six Core CPUs with only 2 cores enabled, especially designed for the High Frequency Traders on Wall str.
As long as FTC is considering to ban any HFT, Intel & IBM will have to put those CPUs to some better use

Anyway, good job, good achievement, but I hope you will not give up on the idea of researching/developing multi-threaded server code as a long-term solution?

P.S. Optimizing the client is always a good idea :-)

So did time dilation go into effect during this fight, and if so, to what degree/percentage?

Also, very nice

There are a few companies offering OC servers primarily for stock market companies.

Below article talks about one,
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/17/sgi_rackable_overclocked_server/

You guys better sort out your multi-threading though your not going to get better clocks any time soon. You may see a 5GHz part in the next few years as a dual core (huge maybe). But that's about if for X86 server parts.

I understand it's a pretty big project to undertake, but will the server code ever be optimized for multi-core processing?

Wow, the mention of client-side performance enhancements is really interesting and exciting. I have always been puzzled at Eve's scaling problems; how it performs so well on even lowly hardware but suddenly falls to it's knees when there is a large fleet on the field. I always imagined it'd be as simple as loading simpler ship models/lower resolution textures when there are many ships on screen.... but it's never as simple as we think!

Thanks and great devblog

No I'm by no means an expert in this but rending of ships, and stations is purely done on the client. This has nothing to do with the server. Having lower/higher poly models won't help or worsen the server. The server is trying to coordinate who is getting show, how much, where they are in space, how fast they are moving and such. Add in drones, missiles, repairing, aggression, things like that times 800 people and the server begins to cry.

How is the fundamental research Jacky (CCP Warlock) is doing into Python multithreading, the GIL, etc. coming along?

Well, at the time that CCP was discussing it at Fanfest last year, Intel had this system under really tight raps.

Recently however they have relaxed the NDA and we are now allowed to publicly disclose the details on the box in general terms.

Here is the box in question : Monster Toy

and it is making use of Intel's beast of a proc running at 4.4 Ghz (air cooled) aka : Intel Xeon X5698 4.4 GHz


Take a wild guess who I work for :)

Cheers.

So, looking at the tama graph... its running on the supernode with +80% over regular dedicated nodes.

Which would put a regular node's 100% mark at around 55% of the supernode graph. So, had this not been on the node it was, there would have been constant 100% utilization for an hour between 19:30 and 20:30?

If you're going to use liquid to cool the cpu and motherboard, use mineral spirits. Its doesn't conduct electricity and is an excellent heat transfering medium.

Why, I would have thought that was obvious. Hamster juice ofc

Link for the lazy:
http://www.cpu-world.com/news_2011/2011031101_Intel_quitely_ships_4_4_GHz_Xeon_X5698.html

http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Xeon/Intel-Xeon%20X5698%20-%20AT80614007314AA.html