just for interest, why do you use a cpu heave application on node, which is built to serve I/O-heavy application?
Am Montag, 24. September 2012 22:21:12 UTC+2 schrieb David: > > Hi everyone, > > I'm trying to figure out which PaaS, if any, would suit my project best. > I've been searching and reading a lot but I'm still pretty new to this and > would like your opinion on the subject. > > My project is a physic based multiplayer game. The simulation is run > server side and is controlled by the input of players. About 60 times a > second, it broadcasts all changes to the players that share the same world. > Each world is run independently and accepts between 4 and 8 players. > > Right now, my prototype isn't optimized at all but I can already see that > I'll need to horizontally scale it at some point, so I'm trying to figure > out how it's going to be done. > > I understand I could do it on an IaaS like Joyent but I would like to see > if there's a PaaS out there that would simplify my work. > > Here are the requirements for the project: > > 1) While the number of concurrent connections might be low, the CPU usage > can be high, the solution needs to scale not only on the amount of > concurrent connections but also on the amount of CPU used. For example, > correct me if I'm wrong but I believe Nodejitsu only scales based on > concurrent request and hence isn't suited for CPU heavy app. The > application would just slows down and never scale because it doesn't reach > a specific concurrent connection threshold. > > 2) Low latency is also very important, this isn't a farm game, it's a > physic simulation with moving objects. At 50ms, my prototype plays really > smoothly but past 100-150ms, the experience starts to suffer. I need to be > able to make sure it stays low or act accordingly when it gets high. > > 3) The server sends a lot more data than it receives, so I expect this > could also be a bottleneck. > > That's basically it, any advice, pointers, tips are welcome. > > Thanks in advance. > > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
