Case Study: Chess Olympiad Dresden achieves near real-time global chess broadcasting with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Chess Olympiad Dresden - Customer Case Study

Chess Olympiad Dresden needed a way to broadcast the 2008 FIDE Chess Olympiad live over the Internet, handling up to 550 simultaneous games and a potential audience of around one million viewers. The project required a resilient, high-performance platform with strong connectivity, low management overhead, and controlled costs, so the team chose Suse Linux Enterprise Server.

Suse Linux Enterprise Server powered both the processing and presentation layers of the solution, running on clustered IBM BladeCenter and Sun Niagara servers with 10Gb/s connectivity. The result was a stable, low-cost infrastructure that delivered near real-time updates every 10 seconds and enabled Chess Olympiad Dresden to broadcast all 6,050 games to a global audience, with failover successfully tested and no outages during the event.

Chess Olympiad Dresden

Juergen Meier

Deputy IT Director