Sony's Warhawk server farm is made of PS3s

joshthegreat | August 12, 2007 | News | Playstation 3

It's amazing really. Ranked Warhawk matches will be run off servers made entirely from PlayStation 3 systems. This demonstrates the power of the PS3s processer - the Cell - extremely well.

It will take until Warhawk is released for us all to see just how reliable and lag-free these PS3 servers will prove. Perhaps it's a method other developers will want to adpot?

We want to make sure that there are always an abundance of wicked-fast Ranked Dedicated servers available for players. The images that accompany this post were taken by our very talented IT team here at SCEA. And yes, what you’re looking at is an enormous server cluster for Warhawk…of rack-mounted PS3s!

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Seeker X | August 12, 2007

...that explains why the games ran so smoothly.
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  Vito Raliffe | August 12, 2007
  
  Yeah, when we played there was no lag at all, and this was in epic 32 player matches with people flying around, driving tanks, or blasting each other on the ground on enormous maps.
  
  Or me running into a group of four guys with a knife and taking them all out
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Linkin Park Fan | August 12, 2007

Haha those are some awesome screens.
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tallteen86 | August 12, 2007

Uhhh, if you're talking about the Warhawk beta, only so many people had access to that, so it isn't really the best representation...

Now, with 10's of thousands of people playing, THEN you'll see what it is capable of...

And that is a LOT of PS3s though...
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AdamHill | August 12, 2007

Wow, I knew the PS3 was powerful, but not this powerful.
Despite the fact that this a bit off-the-wall, it does show off the PS3's power quite a bit.
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xtremepokemontrainer | August 12, 2007

This truly shows off the power of this PS3. Finally, a good online game besides Resistance.
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  Sort | August 13, 2007
  
  Wait...you mean to tell me the PS3 has a good online game?
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Silver Mirror | August 13, 2007

Oh very funny (not!)

Anyway do you think they would have had to pay for all those PS3's?
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Final Blade | August 13, 2007

Very interesting, i hope it doesn't have any lag time, then perhaps this will encourage Other devs to use this method, for the PS3.
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BANDITO ATTACK | August 13, 2007

Hahahhaha.. cool stuff. I can imagine their electric bill. @__@
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  Teodor Tenchev | August 13, 2007
  
  Won't those PS3s break down after a few weeks of running non-stop?
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    Final Blade | August 14, 2007
    
    No check the other article some tested the PS3 for 5 days straight with no problem.
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Linkin Park Fan | August 13, 2007

No, the ps3 is ment to be on for long periods of time.
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tallteen86 | August 13, 2007

Yeah, I'm sure they'll do some additional cooling system, to make up for the extra heat generated...

And I'm sure they'll turn off systems, and start up others, to give each system a break every once in a while...
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Revenger of Wastelan | August 14, 2007

Thats a really cool and creative idea.