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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 oh wait, those Beowulf jokes are WAYYY outdated aren't they?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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  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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  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: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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