Intel® Xeon® Processor Gives Gamers the Edge
Success Brief: Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 and 5600 series
Performance: Data-Intensive Computing
Company
Turtle Entertainment operates the Electronic Sports League (ESL), Europe’s largest league for online gamers. It has more than 2.8 million registered members and more than 600,000 registered teams. Turtle Entertainment offers more than 3,500 professional leagues and amateur divisions for a wide variety of games. Each month nearly 400,000 matches are played with more than 1.6 million visitors logging into the website.
Challenge
Since Turtle Entertainment began operating the ESL website in 2000, it has experienced surging year-on-year growth. As a result, expanding hardware capacities to support user growth and new website technologies have been an ongoing dynamic. ESL’s existing system was based on Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL, PHP running on approximately 100 servers. However, with the advent of Web 2.0 technologies such as real-time interactivity, video streaming, and online chat, the company needed to enhance its Web server and database processing to maintain website render time.
Solution
The company deployed 10 Supermicro SuperServer* 6026TT-HDTRF systems in its horizontal Web server tier, totaling 20 new physical servers. Each server is powered by two Intel® Xeon® processors 5600 series. For its vertically-scaled database system, it introduced four Supermicro SuperServer 8026B-6RF systems, each powered by Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 series. For the Web servers, it tested Web server render time improvement and render time power efficiency and, for the data servers’ database render time, improvement and CPU usage.
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Intel® Xeon® Processor Gives Gamers the Edge
Success Brief: Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 and 5600 series
Performance: Data-Intensive Computing
Company
Turtle Entertainment operates the Electronic Sports League (ESL), Europe’s largest league for online gamers. It has more than 2.8 million registered members and more than 600,000 registered teams. Turtle Entertainment offers more than 3,500 professional leagues and amateur divisions for a wide variety of games. Each month nearly 400,000 matches are played with more than 1.6 million visitors logging into the website.
Challenge
Since Turtle Entertainment began operating the ESL website in 2000, it has experienced surging year-on-year growth. As a result, expanding hardware capacities to support user growth and new website technologies have been an ongoing dynamic. ESL’s existing system was based on Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL, PHP running on approximately 100 servers. However, with the advent of Web 2.0 technologies such as real-time interactivity, video streaming, and online chat, the company needed to enhance its Web server and database processing to maintain website render time.
Solution
The company deployed 10 Supermicro SuperServer* 6026TT-HDTRF systems in its horizontal Web server tier, totaling 20 new physical servers. Each server is powered by two Intel® Xeon® processors 5600 series. For its vertically-scaled database system, it introduced four Supermicro SuperServer 8026B-6RF systems, each powered by Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 series. For the Web servers, it tested Web server render time improvement and render time power efficiency and, for the data servers’ database render time, improvement and CPU usage.
Read the full Intel® Xeon® Processor Success Brief.
