ES7000 Server Powers Record Gaming Event

Enterprise Networks & Servers, Jan 2005

Officials from The Guinness Book of World Records confirmed the highest number of players ever recorded on a single game server at the DreamHack Winter 2004 Festival in J'nk'ping, Sweden. DreamHack - the world's largest LAN party and game festival a hosted 1,160 video game players on a Unisys ES7000/540 server.

The Unisys ES7000/540 server, equipped with 32 Intel Xeon 2.2 GHz processors and 32GB internal memory running Microsoft's Windows Datacenter, supported gamers as they competed in "CounterStrike," a popular online, team-based game simulating counter-terrorist warfare.

The DreamHack Winter 2004 festival included more than 5,272 paying attendees and 5,852 computers on the DreamHack LAN.

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