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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 oh wait, those Beowulf jokes are WAYYY outdated aren't they?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 nope, bugger that ones out of date as well...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!

  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 :)

  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.

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

    How many fps were they getting ?

  5. 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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  6. 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.

  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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".

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

    In Corporate America, the Grid fails YOU!