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IBM Testing New Grid Technology with Quake 2

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the advances-in-fragging-technology dept.

boschmorden writes "In conjunction with IBM, a group of college students from the University of Wisconsin developed GameGrid, a derivative of IBM's OptimalGrid effort. The students adapted the open-source version of id Software's Quake 2 first-person shooter, and attempted to scale it across the grid to stress the system." IBM is also planning on developing Quake 2 bots to take advantage of the system.

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  1. Can you? by Surak · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can you imagine .... oh wait, those Beowulf jokes are WAYYY outdated aren't they? Can you imagine if we had a GRID of those? :)

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    1. Re:Can you? by boogy+nightmare · · Score: 3, Funny

      I for one welcome our new....... nope, bugger that ones out of date as well...

      quick someone think of something new and witty.

      S

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    2. Re:Can you? by matt_wilts · · Score: 3, Funny

      quick someone think of something new and witty.

      you're new round here, aren't you?

      Bugger, that's no good either!

    3. Re:Can you? by bytesmythe · · Score: 2, Funny

      Umm... they would have started the project earlier, but they got tired of waiting for Duke Nukem Forever?

      No? Damn...

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    4. Re:Can you? by InfoVore · · Score: 2, Funny

      How about from TRON:

      "I'm going to have to put you on the GameGrid."

      I.V.

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  2. IBM wants stress testing ? by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 5, Funny

    IBM Corp. has begun a real-world test of its grid-computing system by turning to a familiar geek pastime: games.

    I'd have hosted Slashdot instead. Or updates.microsoft.com.

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    1. Re:IBM wants stress testing ? by Eythian · · Score: 3, Funny

      Or updates.microsoft.com

      I find your assumption that people update windows machines amusing.

      Oh, wait. People don't. Viruses do it nowadays :)

    2. Re:IBM wants stress testing ? by G-funk · · Score: 2, Funny

      I believe (too lazy to read the low score posts) he meant to say "hosed" not hosted.

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  3. All bots are now by Trigun · · Score: 5, Funny

    Giant blue gorillas with six million hit points, deadly accuracy, and are backed by a legion of undead lawyers.

    1. Re:All bots are now by Xpilot · · Score: 2, Funny

      Giant blue gorillas with six million hit points, deadly accuracy, and are backed by a legion of undead lawyers.

      And SCO is a puny little cockroach who tried to take them down.

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  4. Yes but by Salsaman · · Score: 4, Funny
    they forgot the most important question of all:

    How many fps were they getting ?

  5. Re:sounds like nascent skynet by 10Ghz · · Score: 2, Funny
    Either way I for one look forward to a beowulf cluster of these steel and wire overlords, yeah?


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  6. Old news.... by jdreed1024 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bah, they had game grids back in 1982. I bet IBM's version doesn't have lightcycles, either. Yeesh, get with the times, IBM...

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  7. Re:80 Users by Trigun · · Score: 3, Funny

    80 normal users don't stress the system, but 80 l337 |-|4>0rZ armed with the latest aimbot technology, scraming "I h8 K4mP3rz! D347h 2 4ll, \/\/3 4r3 1337!" would stress even the most well constructed system.

  8. Re:not a completely new idea by lovebyte · · Score: 5, Funny

    I remember when in the mid-90's we used to call playing doom and later quake : Network testing

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  9. Re:The Rights of Software ? by glwtta · · Score: 3, Funny
    At what point do you have a responsibility to the code that you spawned

    Easy - when it starts complaining. That's the most reliable Turing test there is.

    On a related note, I would suggest you watch a little less scifi, and maybe take a programming class or something.

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  10. Ahh, the memories... by Andy+Dodd · · Score: 2, Funny

    We did quite a lot of "network load testing" back in high school.

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  11. Lame Matrix Reference by vgaphil · · Score: 3, Funny

    IBM is also planning on developing Quake 2 bots to take advantage of the system

    Dont't they mean "agents".

    "The Internet is a fad" -WB

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  12. In related news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Quake II was ported to .NET!

    http://www.vertigosoftware.com/Quake2.htm
    or
    h ttp://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/quake/

  13. Re:Acid test by abe+ferlman · · Score: 2, Funny

    Has there ever been a Clue mod for quake2?

    "Col. Mustard got bored with life, with the candlestick, in the ballroom..."

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  14. got it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    In Corporate America, the Grid fails YOU!