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 🙂