The Coolest Guinness World Record Ever - set by Microsoft and Unisys!

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some random guy — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:20:27 GMT

congratulations!
microsoft stuff is really getting there in terms of stability and scalability. and hopefully security as well with long^Wvista and xp serv^W^W2k3 server.
but what i don't understand is your hope to stop piracy by organizing a gigantic lan party. why do you think the internet connection was maxed out? everyone mailing job applications to microsoft? ;) apart from the swapping that's going on on the lan...
anyway, frag on!

re: The Coolest Guinness World Record Ever - set by Microsoft!

Michael Anderberg — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 16:35:44 GMT

I am sorry, I wasn't clear on the fact that we are not organizing it, we're just one of the sponsors for the event. And absolutely, we know that there's plenty of piracy going on but we're addressing that one step at the time.

Six years ago, we handed out beta-copies of Windows 2000 and people were standing n their chairs yelling things like -"Let's burn them!" etc. Today, there's nothing of that and actually quite some interest in who we are and what we do and why. By bringing in the BSA or the police, we'd lose all that in a second, instead we're working at stoping this with the help of the organizers of the event, Swedish law and also by simply talking to people - explaining why it is wrong. Please remember that a good part of this crowd don't even know that wat they're doing is illegal, they just figure that it doesn't matter whether they copy things or not. We have even had people come up to us in our stand and ask for the original CDs for various games so that they could make a copy! That kind of indicates the amount of work it will take to turn this around. Of course we're also using technology to find, track and shut down DC-hubs etc. But we're seeing great progress and simply feel that we have two choices - ignore them or being there talking to them - I for one think the second choice is by far the best!

Thanks/Mike

The worlds most powerful gaming server?

John Howard — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 17:10:39 GMT

So what do you do with a Unisys ES7000 32 CPU / 32 GB RAM Server with Microsoft Windows 2003 Datacenter...

The Coolest Guinness World Record Ever - set by Microsoft!

ryanstevens.co.uk — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 18:15:33 GMT

The Coolest Guinness World Record Ever - set by Microsoft!

Karen Young — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:22:21 GMT

re: The Coolest Guinness World Record Ever - set by Microsoft and Unisys!

Yosh — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:24:53 GMT

This is old news .) I was in the security crew ^_^

re: The Coolest Guinness World Record Ever - set by Microsoft and Unisys!

richard — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:16:09 GMT

Wow!

Pretty impressive stuff.

It's a pity such a fantastic hardware setup was burdened with an OS like MS datacenter.

Seriously, who would invest such a huge amount of money in hardware... only to put windows on it?

Sounds somewhat akin to buying a pair of $5,000 shoes specifically for repairing overturned clods of dirt on a polo field.

Forgive me, I'm a unix fan.

"MS are really getting somewhere with stability and scalability".... uh huh, somewhere the UNIX boys have been for well over a decade (and then some).

re: The Coolest Guinness World Record Ever - set by Microsoft and Unisys!

Mateusz from Unisys — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 20:12:30 GMT

Hello Richard,

Do you have any experience with DC systems or only with Windows in your PC to say such things?

I'm ES7000-guy since 2000 and we have no problems with Datacenter and I tell you why...
We have very restrictive compatibility lists for matching everything with everything. It's called Datacenter Certification.

It's stable as a rock because we have proper HW, SW and drivers installed. Most of the problems in PCs are because of faulty drivers and crappy SW. We don't have such problems.
We always repeat "If you want a mainframe, treat your server like a mainframe" - do not install everything you like from Internet and so on...

Of course you can always install SUSE on ES7000s (with compatibility lists too...) but still we have no single customer to choose Linux, not DC (or Advanced Server).

Mateusz

re: The Coolest Guinness World Record Ever - set by Microsoft and Unisys!

richard — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 06:33:13 GMT

To be honest, no, I have no experience with DC. I can understand how a very selective hardware and software setup would greatly aid stability, and I don't doubt that the system would be a stable one, however to be even MORE honest, my comments stem from a deep-seated dislike for MS products, technologies and marketing practices in general... I won't bother going into that because firing up an MS-bashing session on a technet blog wouldn't exactly be the greatest idea since sliced bread.

But I'm quite surprised that all your customers choose DC or AS over a Linux or even BSD solution.... I guess vendor support isn't as much of a hassle for them as having support & know-how of *NIX systems in-house.

Still, if it held up a decent CS game then I guess some good definitely came from it!

Hmm... a different way to use a large server and windows.

Canadian IT Managers — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 22:19:24 GMT

I've heard of many ways to try and set a world record and well I shouldn’t' be surprised that technology...

Hmm... a different way to use a large server and windows.

Canadian IT Managers — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 22:20:58 GMT

I've heard of many ways to try and set a world record and well I shouldn’t' be surprised that technology...

Hmm... a different way to use a large server and windows.

Canadian IT Managers — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 22:21:37 GMT

I've heard of many ways to try and set a world record and well I shouldn’t' be surprised that technology...

re: The Coolest Guinness World Record Ever - set by Microsoft and Unisys!

ThomasD — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:22:28 GMT

Hi!

Really cool World Record, being part of it must be quite cool!

One question is still left: how many server instances of Counter-Strike 1.6 were running simultaneously on that machine? I can't imagine over 1000 people playing on the same map...

Greetings, Thomas

re: The Coolest Guinness World Record Ever - set by Microsoft and Unisys!

Michael Anderberg — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 20:43:54 GMT

Hi Thomas,

No, you're right they were not all on the same map due to hard-coded limitations in the Half-Life Engine, that we couldn't change.
However, I think that we had at the most 73 servers running, yet please remember that we actually peaked out at about 1160 simultaneous gamers but we decided that one had to have been playing for at least 5 minutes to count in the total.
But you're right it was an awesome record to set, quite different from the normal use of an ES7000 as well as Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition. :)

/Mike

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