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Hawk TT
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Posted - 2009.12.05 11:47:00 -
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Hmm, a whole year after the last post from CPP Mindstar we know that most of the improvements suggested in his Fan Fest 2008 presentation are done with pretty good success. Now, what's up with the whole HPC idea?
Microsoft HPC 2008 R2 will be out next year, it has much more fault-tolerance features, Mellanox announced 120Gbps Infiniband & MPI off-loading...
Could we expect some serious CCP developments in 2010?
P.S.
http://insidehpc.com/2009/11/17/mellanox-intros-120-gbps-switch-application-offloading-for-collectives-in-the-adapter/
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Hawk TT
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Posted - 2010.02.13 04:30:00 -
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Hey CCP, your last update regarding the HPC project is quite old.
Why don't you disclose some info, no matter if it is positive or negative...
I hope you are not wating for M$ to release HPC 2008 R2...or HPC 2012 ;-)
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Hawk TT
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Posted - 2010.02.13 18:53:00 -
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Edited by: Hawk TT on 13/02/2010 18:54:40
I would love to, but I guess CCP will remain tight-lipped...
I've also checked CCP's presentations planned for GDC 2010 in San Francisco - apart from some Incarna / DUST 514 related stuff, nothing really tech-oriented...Some Agile development, some virtual economics stuff, some meta-gaming espionage stories...
What about the long-term war against LAG? HPC / Infiniband is only a small part of the story. The Stackless Python and it's Global Interpeter Lock is the real problem. Back in the 2001/2002 it surely seemed like a great idea, but those days Intel has been promisning 10GHz+ CPUs...Now the reality is different - more cores, more threads, even GPGPUs with thousands of cores...same core speeds.
A massively multiplayer universe requires massively parallel processing, not just fast, low-latency interconnects, but the code base is on Python...
CCP, c'mon!
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Hawk TT
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Posted - 2010.02.14 10:37:00 -
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Believe me, CCP really wants to make the EVE universe more scalable! With the current architecture and technology behind EVE, they really can't grow the customer base as fast as they want. And that's hurting their bottom line...
I don't blame CCP for not fixing the lag, because I understand how difficult this is (having an idea about the architecture of EVE and the technological challnages etc.).
I blame them for not sharing updates about the long-term plans for fixing the lag.
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