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A Supercomputing Cluster For FPS Gaming

Posted by timothy on from the imagining-is-now-useless dept.

Paul E writes: " An atlanta company seems to have developed (modified?) a linux clustering platform that is very conducive to FPS games. These guys apparently have built a cluster that will be pushing 2 TerraFlops, which would easily put it between Blue Pacific and Blue Mountain . Interesting that the same time the .mil starts making FPS's, FPS platforms are outperforming some of the top defense labs."

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  1. Why do I get this feeling... by handsomepete · · Score: 5, Funny

    that they'll still try and overclock it?

  2. Boewulf cluster of PS2s? by line-bundle · · Score: 3, Funny

    What about a boewulf cluster of playstation 2s?

    :-)

  3. TerraFlops? by Alan+Partridge · · Score: 3, Funny

    TerrorFlops?

    TERAFLOPS!

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  4. Re:No they haven't by Provocateur · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, no you have it all wrong

    They read the README for DOOM3's minimum hardware requirements...

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  5. FPS platforms? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    As a gamer from the 80s, that comment really threw me...

  6. Terraflops by svara · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow! I wonder where that Terraflop will bring these guys! Is that some kind of new scale for supercomputers: Measure how many "terra"'s they power? (The earth had 1 Terraflop in Douglas Adam's books).