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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / SEPTEMBER 29, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 39
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Applications:
RackSaver MAKES 'WISH' COME TRUE
FOR MUTABLE REALMS
RackSaver, a premier provider of high-density individual rack-optimized
servers, blade servers and supercomputing clusters announced that it has been
selected by Mutable Realms Inc, a company that specializes in online role
playing games, to provide an Intel Xeon processor-based BladeRack to host
their new online role playing game, WISH.
Unlike conventional Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games
(MMORPG)
that confine players to a server with only a few hundred other players, WISH
defines the new category of online gaming called Ultra Massive Multiplayer
Online Role Playing Games (UMMORPG). A highly-scalable BladeRack server
cluster infrastructure enables WISH to support tens of thousands of
simultaneous players in a single gaming environment.
"We chose RackSaver to provide us with hardware because of their solid
reputation in the industry and their continued commitment to delivering highly
dependable, performance driven servers," said Marc Laukien, president of
Mutable Realms. "With our newly acquired RackSaver BladeRack hosting WISH, it
will present a seamless online experience and provide endless opportunities
for every player of the game."
"We are committed to creating products that can be customized and
integrated
into every industry," said David Driggers, CEO of RackSaver. "The new game
WISH will allow tens of thousands of users to experience online gaming like
never before. Mutable Realms has created an incredible gaming environment, and
we are excited to be part of it."
The RackSaver BladeRack selected by Mutable Realms contains 176 Intel Xeon
processors in one industry standard-sized rack with a combined processing
power of nearly one teraflop. The BladeRack also contains nearly 176GB of
high-speed memory and 5.2TB of storage capacity.
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