I will be up at 4am tomorrow to catch my flight to Cape Town out of Lanseria. Then I’ve got to setup the cache, in a day, and be ready for an early opening on Friday. Wish me luck!

So, with the event fast approaching, planning is well under way for rAge Cape Town 2016.

Sadly since the event is fairly small this year, with only a few hundred gamers, which means there is a limited budget. This is still okay, I will be paying my way and heading down to join the set-up on the 17th.

Again, Intel has sent over some amazing servers for the event.
They sent over 2 x Boxes for the cache setup, each of them have:
2 x E5-2690v2 @ 3.00GHz
20 cores and 40 threads
50MB of L3 cache
5MB of L2 cache
1.3MB of L1 cache
192GB of RAM, for a real nice hot cache.
2.5TB of SSDs, in RAID0.
At least 7 x 1GBps NICs
We can change the config as desired….

Looking at last years specs, it looks like the set-up is actually the same, but with more SSDs

I am waiting to see what IS will be bringing to the party for an Internet Connection, but I am sure it will be something exciting.

Pics and more info to follow 🙂