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Distributed Playstation

Posted by Hemos on from the concatenate-two-buzzwords dept.

withinavoid writes "News.com has a story up about the next generation Playstation 3. Apparently the game developers are asking for a 1000 times performance increase and that's just not possible, so they are looking at distributed computing as a possibility. "

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  1. Playstation 3? It's already out!! by Indras · · Score: 5, Funny

    See here, if you don't believe me: http://www.misinformer.com/archive/01-01/15.html

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  2. Atari by Decimal · · Score: 3, Funny

    Distributed console computing... interesting! Does anybody have a link on how I can hook up my Atari 2600 consoles for something like this?

    Just think how much faster PONG will run!

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  3. Fantastic! by BoBaBrain · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does this mean we can look forward to playing "CORBA Command"?

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  4. How the dialogue really went... by gowen · · Score: 5, Funny
    Apparently the game developers are asking for a 1000 times performance increase...

    Developers: We want a 1000 times speed increase

    Sony: Would you settle for a press release containing a bunch of buzzwords

    Developers: Which ones?

    Sony: Let me think: "distributed computing", "biotechnology", "linux", "grid computing" and "Moore's Law"

    Developers: OK, if you throw in some hookers at the next Comdex in Vegas

    Sony: Deal
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    1. Re:How the dialogue really went... by poemofatic · · Score: 5, Funny

      I think in this case, the phrase is "Moore Hookers".

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  5. Editorial math? by skippy5066 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Forgive me if my math is off, but if Moore's law states that processing power roughly doubles every 18 months, wouldn't a 1000-fold increase occur in about 15 years?

    Maybe they're designing the next generation Playstation on a Pentium machine. Did they ever fix that bug?


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  6. I can see it now.. by dimer0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you wish to run Gran Turismo 4 in full resolution with highest graphics settings, 4 Playstation 3's are recommended.

    Well, I guess if they're rack-mountable, I'm game. Bring it on.

  7. Distributed computing by jdavidb · · Score: 3, Funny

    That sounds like a practical solution. I'll just buy a beowulf cluster of PS3's and ...

    (Do these guys think I can offload the processing for my games to someone else's PS3? Won't that PS3 be busy trying to run someone else's game?)

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  8. PS9 by llamalicious · · Score: 3, Funny

    Come on... PS9 was already released, with the telepathic interface. Surely it's 1000x faster than PS2

    Don't any of you watch T.V. ????

  9. Re:How the dialogue SHOULD HAVE gone... by RFC959 · · Score: 5, Funny
    Developers: We want a 1000 times speed increase
    Marketing guys: Yeah, and we want a 1000 times raise and an office 1000 times as big. Get bent.

    Hardware guys: *kick the developers in the nerts* Give us games 1000 times better and we'll think about it, you pathetic freaks.