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Here is a very interesting article about EVE Online's server model.
It goes into some detail on the hardware, challenges and upgrades that are performed and what they are doing to meet those challenges in the near future.
Here's a couple of tidbits to spark your interest
It goes into some detail on the hardware, challenges and upgrades that are performed and what they are doing to meet those challenges in the near future.
Here's a couple of tidbits to spark your interest
EVE server cluster is maintained in London and is currently the largest supercomputer employed in the gaming industry.
Each of EVE's 5000+ star systems is loaded as a separate process onto any one of hundreds of IBM blade servers, with some high-load systems being given a server all to themselves and many low-load systems being combined and run on servers together. These "SOL Servers" are tied into EVE's main database server where changes to the game take place