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Cloud-Based, Ray-Traced Games On Intel Tablets

Posted by timothy on from the heavy-lifting-done-elsewhere dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After Intel showed a ray traced version of Wolfenstein last year running cloud-based streamed to a laptop the company that has just recently announced its shift to the mobile market shows now their research project Lalso running on various x86-tablets with 5 to 10 inch screens. The heavy calculations are performed by a cloud consisting of a machine with a Knights Ferry card (32 cores) inside. The achieved frame rates are around 20-30 fps."

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  1. Followed one of the links and read this... by RoverDaddy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The first product codenamed "Knights Corner" will target Intel's 22nm process and use Moore's Law to scale to more than 50 Intel cores.

    Nonsense marketing babble. Moore's Law is predictive. You can't use it to MAKE anything happen.

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  2. Re:Who says laws are predictive? by Culture20 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Just yesterday, I used the law of gravity to make myself fall down. So there!

    No you didn't. You used the law of gravity to predict that you would fall down. You utilized gravity to make it happen.