Butterfly Grid Will Support Massive Numbers of Video Gamers Online

By klsh on February 27, 2003 9:26 PM | | TrackBacks (0)

IBM and Butterfly to Run PlayStation-R-2 Games on Global Grid
Very few things push the envelope as fast and far as games. When IBM and GNU/Linux are in the mix, sit up and pay attention!

The Butterfly Grid takes advantage of the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA), an important new standard for high-performance, ultra-reliable computing. OGSA supports several of the most critical functions of successful online games: availability, security and performance. The Grid's OGSA-compliant software monitors the processing load on GNU/Linux®-based IBM BladeCenters populated with 14 Blades, each with two Intel Xeon® processors. When the Grid determines there are too many players connected to any particular server, the Grid automatically reconfigures underutilized Blades to support the most popular game-play and seamlessly transfers players to these Blades.

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