Posted by on under extence, high art, internet company, behemoth, oliver stone, internet media, multi media, ceo | 
Oliver Stone was paid 75,000 dollars by an Internet media behemoth to discuss what's in store for web multi-media in 2010. Little did they know that "high-art" Oliver Stone would piss all over the concept that web videos are movies. Watch the CEO of the company nervously jerking around as Stone disses the very existence of the company.
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Posted by on under network services group, cpu cores, frank pearce, tipping the scales, mitor, server blades, petabytes, world of warcraft, j allen, gdc, brack, inner workings, behemoth, yesterday morning, terabytes, global network, blizzard, seoul, computer systems, peek |
Yesterday morning at GDC Austin, Blizzard's J. Allen Brack and Frank Pearce took to the stage to finally give a peek inside the inner workings of World of Warcraft. Tipping the scales at around 4,600 people utilizing 20,000 computer systems and 1.3 petabytes of storage, Blizzard has created a raging behemoth. The Online Network services group alone has "data centers from Texas to Seoul, and monitor over 13,250 server blades, 75,000 cpu cores, and 112.5 terabytes of blade RAM. [Pearce] points out the picture of the GNOC (Global Network Operations Center) in their slideshow, a data core that even has televisions tuned to the weather stations. They use those to ensure that conditions of the data center are up to their standards; with only a staff of 68 people they ensure connectivity across the globe for the numerous WoW servers."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Tagi: network services group, cpu cores, frank pearce, tipping the scales, mitor, server blades, petabytes, world of warcraft, j allen, gdc, brack, inner workings, behemoth, yesterday morning, terabytes, global network, blizzard, seoul, computer systems, peek
Posted by blogs@bobvila.com (Ben) on under internatial, spider queen, smiling faces, massive web, peter parker, behemoth, hammock, jardins, trampoline, flora, amp, quebec |
Don't be alarmed. Those humanoid figures are not, in fact, caught in the massive web of the Spider Queen. This behemoth -- while resembling a cross between a trampoline and a fishing net -- is in fact a hammock-like structure that was featured at this year's International Garden Festival at Jardins de Metis/Redford Gardens in Quebec. The smiling faces occupying its triangular sections are enjoying a little R&R while hovering over the aromatic flora planted in the garden just below. ...
Tagi: internatial, spider queen, smiling faces, massive web, peter parker, behemoth, hammock, jardins, trampoline, flora, amp, quebec
