World of Warcraft: Forever launched on 70,480 CPU cores and 251,136 GB of RAM
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Take that, bean counters: World of Warcraft: Forever officially opened its doors on November 4, allowing a massive number of players to experience WoW's origins while introducing new content and storylines along the way. According to Blizzard's latest social media posts, WoW: Forever's massively multiplayer world is running on some seriously impressive hardware – the kind of infrastructure that very few game servers – or even data centers – can match.
Soon after launch, Blizzard revealed some of the most impressive details about the hardware powering the game. The new-old MMO is running on 3,924 virtual machines, 251,136 GB of memory, and 70,480 CPU cores. The "memory" figure is suspiciously precise, especially coming just a few days after Sam Altman shared his now-notorious opinion about "terrible" PC users wasting precious DRAM...
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