Linux serving US Open tennis matches

From: Stanley Long <slong@customcpu.com>
Date: Fri Sep 10 2004 - 11:21:51 AKDT

U.S. Tennis Association's National Tennis Center
more than 35 IBM ThinkPads, flat-screen TVs, Blade servers and a dozen
technicians. ... 400 closed-circuit TVs, TV broadcasters' graphics
departments and the website. ...
16 matches may be occurring simultaneously.

IBM DB2 database for Linux running on Blade servers, which tally the
scores, generate match statistics and combine those stats with existing
player biographies.

Michael Myser wired news: Sept. 10
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,64897,00.html

Viewers can drill down to match statistics like first-serve percentages
or unforced errors, which are recorded live by on-site statisticians,
and quickly jump from match to match or watch several matches
simultaneously.

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