Engineering EverQuest online gaming demands heavyweight data centers.

Engineering EverQuest online gaming demands heavyweight data centers.

This paper describes how engineers keep a half million people from all over the world playing EverQuest, a best-selling computer game played over the Internet. Developed by Sony Online Entertainment, EverQuest has not only become a dominant force in the entertainment business but has also become a s...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE spectrum 42, 7 (2005).
1. Verfasser: Kushner, D.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:English
Schlagworte:
EverQuest.
Sony Online Entertainment.
Wi-Fi technology.
Blade servers.
Computer games.
Entertainment business.
Graphics chips.
Just in time computing.
Logic circuitry.
Online games.
State-of-the-art microprocessors.