• EVE Online: 30,000 Users on One Server Shard

  September 13th, 2006 : Rich Miller

  CCP Games says it has assembled the largest supercomputer cluster in the history of the online gaming industry for EVE Online, the growing science fiction MMORPG. EVE Online recently hosted 30,000 concurrent users on a single shard - which CCP says is a world record - and now manages more than 150 million database transactions per day.

  
  
  
  

  The game runs on a cluster featuring dual-processor 64-bit AMD Opteron-based IBM BladeCenter LS20 blade servers with additional enhancements to the clusters internet backbone. The database servers don’t use traditional hard drives but instead Solid State Disks (SSD) which can handle over 400,000 random I/Os per second.

  “The sharp growth rate of EVE Online was pushing the limits of the technology we replaced,” said Hilmar Veigar P

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