September 18th, 2009

My kind of WoW news

www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=25307

As an organization, World of Warcraft utilizes 20,000 computer systems, 1.3 petabytes of storage, and more than 4600 people.

The Blizzard Online Network services group is Pearce's next focus. A huge group, they have data centers from Texas to Seoul, and monitor over 13,250 server blades, 75,000 cpu cores, and 112.5 terabytes of blade RAM.

Posted 4 months ago by hobbie Comments (8)	+ 11 Funny

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nlafleur

Now in 3D

#1 Posted 4 months ago	+ 1 Ditto [ Reply ] [ Quote ]
Hawt.

ragingterror

Exhaustion

#2 Posted 4 months ago	+ 1 Funny [ Reply ] [ Quote ]
I came.

SloeBombFizz

Raslin Kevin

#3 Posted 4 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
petabytes sounds dirty

ch00path1ng4

4815162342

#4 Posted 4 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
In reply to nlafleur, #1: I know. It seems like they'd need to use several industrial-size air conditioners just to keep them from overheating. Mmm, delicious freon.

tonyski

MrAchievment

#5 Posted 4 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
GOOD GOD! 4 PETABYTES!!! fuckin A that's more than almost the west side of the internet. a terabyte of Ram would have been impressive in the memory department tho.

wry80

#6 Posted 4 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
Petabyte. I don't know my byte scale well enough yet. That's higher than terabyte, but is there a unit between terabyte and petabyte?

CyanLink

is reviewing

#7 Posted 4 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
Sexy In reply to wry80, #6: It's right above a terabyte. exactly 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes

Crunchjaw

Scandalous

#8 Posted 3 months ago	+ 1 Funny [ Reply ] [ Quote ]
In reply to CyanLink, #7: Byte me.

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