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Axure Abbacus
Pentex Subsidiaries Corp
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Posted - 2017.06.20 17:04:47 -
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Yes, they could if they rewrite the eula and slip in "all your base are belonging to us" in page 42. Its also how you build sky net. Also everyone would want to hijack CCP servers to do bad things.
Tranquility is a finite resource where server load can peak out a blade in the cluster. They would have to use server resources and everyone else's desktop resources that had a client loaded to push that fight along.
If they added pooled resource programming like out programs like the seti at home uses home pc's as virtual super computer. They could free up additional server load for big fights and off shore server time from mission runners in lonetrek to all the Jita alts. Ask those guys how to. Optionally they could get quantum processors. Still bad idea.
https://www.sciencealert.com/this-physicist-has-built-a-supercomputer-from-old-playstations
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Axure Abbacus
Pentex Subsidiaries Corp
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Posted - 2017.06.20 20:52:06 -
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I do understand synchronous processing of events really matters. I also see how how the Tranquility infrastructure evolves with the player base. They dedicate a single blade server to a big system fight when they find it. They cherry pick high priority services to better streamline processing. There is the inherent latency of "the speed of light" with all things (darn physics).
What i was getting at is they could free up server blades by off shoring of low priority settings if needed. There are entire regions underutilized that could get crammed onto one blade or off site to a virtual server. Utilizing player resources could be more cost neutral then renting from another company if scaled. There are some Physics events that could be picked out to reduce load.
Maybe they already do this but it could help. They could devote multiple blades by a Russian roll approach. Have one high end dedicated to the on grid, one to the system, another to the constellation, and region. With better resolution, they could split grids to quadrants and run off of multiple server blades for running Grid. Then add predictive algorithm to streamline the cross talk across server blades.
Intels new x9 processor maxes out at 4.5 GHz and puts out over 1 Teraflops and hopefully will make a smoking addition to tranquility.
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Axure Abbacus
Pentex Subsidiaries Corp
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Posted - 2017.06.20 23:07:12 -
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Good to know, thanks. Guess they are going to need bigger nodes or develop code to make super nodes.
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Axure Abbacus
Pentex Subsidiaries Corp
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Posted - 2017.06.21 14:24:12 -
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Thank you Cade. What i was unaware of was the minimum size that eve can be run on a processing node. Frostys cleared that up for me.
At one point of my life I was a trained network administrator but really found it not fun and stopped being up to date on system architecture. It sounds like server architecture really hasn't evolved as much as I thought it should have since the Solaris and NT 4 days. Sad.
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Axure Abbacus
Pentex Subsidiaries Corp
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Posted - 2017.06.22 11:43:13 -
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Basically eve is using the best commercially available technology to get as close to zero lag is possible. Current hardware and software limitations are what effects big battles. Even Physics says Time dilation happens if you move fast enough unless you bend space time.
Cade, do you in Industry or just really into gaming?
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Axure Abbacus
Pentex Subsidiaries Corp
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Posted - 2017.06.22 15:51:47 -
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Excellent, I look forward to having interesting conversations with you are some point. I bailed out of tech in my early twenties when i had a Sec clearance and learned what being a black hat meant. Now I'm much older and getting back up to speed in computer science and should learn 3d Physics modeling for a side project.
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Axure Abbacus
Pentex Subsidiaries Corp
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Posted - 2017.06.22 19:11:49 -
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Thanks, that a great help. I was reading up on matlab and wasn't getting it with RL. Hopefully some games will be my speed atm. I'm really left in low gear these days and hit a point where I've started to Thought Experiment somethings that shouldn't be done by mortal minds. I really wished I watched Thermonuclear fusion vs Murphy's law before I got the point of trying to think out a 10^12 particle implosion event. Apparently it melts expensive Silicon.
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