IBM Testing New Grid Technology with Quake 2

IBM Testing New Grid Technology with Quake 2 188

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday August 22, 2003 @08:03AM 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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Can you? (Score:5, Funny)

by Surak ( 18578 ) * writes: <surak&mailblocks,com> on Friday August 22, 2003 @08:05AM (#6763680) Homepage Journal

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 oh wait, those Beowulf jokes are WAYYY outdated aren't they?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

IBM wants stress testing ? (Score:5, Funny)

by Rosco P. Coltrane ( 209368 ) writes: on Friday August 22, 2003 @08:06AM (#6763688)

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.

All bots are now (Score:5, Funny)

by Trigun ( 685027 ) writes: <<xc.hta.eripmelive> <ta> <live>> on Friday August 22, 2003 @08:07AM (#6763694)

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

Yes but (Score:5, Funny)

by Salsaman ( 141471 ) writes: on Friday August 22, 2003 @08:10AM (#6763706) Homepage

they forgot the most important question of all:
How many fps were they getting ?

Re:sounds like nascent skynet (Score:3, Funny)

by 10Ghz ( 453478 ) writes: on Friday August 22, 2003 @08:12AM (#6763714)

Either way I for one look forward to a beowulf cluster of these steel and wire overlords, yeah?

As a trusted Slashdot-personality I can help them with rounding up others to toil in their CPU-fabs.

Old news.... (Score:5, Funny)

by jdreed1024 ( 443938 ) writes: on Friday August 22, 2003 @08:14AM (#6763725)

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

Screw Quake 2, do it with Vice City (Score:0, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday August 22, 2003 @08:14AM (#6763726)

Imagine 80 Tommy Vercettis wreaking havoc on that little beach community. Oh joy! Oh nirvana.

Re:80 Users (Score:3, Funny)

by Trigun ( 685027 ) writes: <<xc.hta.eripmelive> <ta> <live>> on Friday August 22, 2003 @08:16AM (#6763735)

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.

Re:Can you? (Score:3, Funny)

by boogy nightmare ( 207669 ) writes: on Friday August 22, 2003 @08:18AM (#6763751) Homepage

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 nope, bugger that ones out of date as well...

quick someone think of something new and witty.

S

Re:not a completely new idea (Score:5, Funny)

by lovebyte ( 81275 ) writes: <lovebyte2000@gmail3.1415926.com minus pi> on Friday August 22, 2003 @08:22AM (#6763773) Homepage

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

Re:Can you? (Score:2, Funny)

by isorox ( 205688 ) writes: on Friday August 22, 2003 @08:22AM (#6763776) Homepage Journal

quick someone think of something new and witty.

In SOVIET RUSSIA Natillie Portman grits you!

No?

Re:Can you? (Score:3, Funny)

by matt_wilts ( 249194 ) writes: <matt_wilts@@@hotmail...com> on Friday August 22, 2003 @08:30AM (#6763821)

quick someone think of something new and witty.

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

Bugger, that's no good either!

Re:All bots are now (Score:0, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday August 22, 2003 @08:32AM (#6763836)

> All bots are now ..belong to us?

Re:The Rights of Software ? (Score:4, Funny)

by glwtta ( 532858 ) writes: on Friday August 22, 2003 @08:33AM (#6763843) Homepage

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.

Mmmm, deep bot (Score:2, Funny)

by SmallFurryCreature ( 593017 ) writes: on Friday August 22, 2003 @08:41AM (#6763874) Journal

From the team that brought you Deep Blue [ibm.com], now comes the ultimate challenge, Deep Bot.
Come on. If they are even going to do it as a sort of pet project IBM seems to have an abudance of geeks doing oddbal stuff for this to become one lethal bot.
In other related news IBM invested 2 billion dollars in cybernetic research.
In yet other future news McBride is kinda puzzeled why his house seems to be surrounded by skiny blue robots.

Ahh, the memories... (Score:3, Funny)

by Andy Dodd ( 701 ) writes: <atd7NO@SPAMcornell.edu> on Friday August 22, 2003 @08:41AM (#6763881) Homepage

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

Re:Can you? (Score:2, Funny)

by bytesmythe ( 58644 ) writes: <bytesmytheNO@SPAMgmail.com> on Friday August 22, 2003 @08:42AM (#6763889)

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

No? Damn...

Re:50 microseconds.. yeah! (Score:0, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday August 22, 2003 @08:59AM (#6763983)

I knew there was a reason I failed maths...

Looks like you failed Google [google.com], too...

Lame Matrix Reference (Score:3, Funny)

by vgaphil ( 449000 ) writes: on Friday August 22, 2003 @09:00AM (#6763992)

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

Wouldn't it be funny.. (Score:0, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday August 22, 2003 @09:09AM (#6764057)

Wouldn't it be funny if they ran a modified version of psdoom on this. PSDOOM [sourceforge.net]

In related news... (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday August 22, 2003 @09:10AM (#6764070)

Quake II was ported to .NET!

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

Bots skin... (Score:1, Funny)

by orb_fan ( 677056 ) writes: on Friday August 22, 2003 @09:15AM (#6764102)

I can see it now... [caldera.com]

Re:All bots are now (Score:3, Funny)

by Xpilot ( 117961 ) writes: on Friday August 22, 2003 @09:20AM (#6764148) Homepage

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.

Re:Can you? (Score:1, Funny)

by Mattcelt ( 454751 ) writes: on Friday August 22, 2003 @09:21AM (#6764154)

Oh, don't worry about coming up with new ones. Just stick with the ones we have and call them "old school".

"Boy, imagine a beowulf cluster of those!"

"Wicked awesome, that is serious old school."

See?

Re:IBM wants stress testing ? (Score:3, Funny)

by Eythian ( 552130 ) writes: <[zn.ten.itsillak] [ta] [nibor]> on Friday August 22, 2003 @09:35AM (#6764248) Homepage

Or updates.microsoft.com

I find your assumption that people update windows machines amusing.

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

Re:IBM wants stress testing ? (Score:3, Funny)

by G-funk ( 22712 ) writes: <josh@gfunk007.com> on Friday August 22, 2003 @09:50AM (#6764360) Homepage Journal

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

Re:Can you? (Score:3, Funny)

by InfoVore ( 98438 ) writes: on Friday August 22, 2003 @09:59AM (#6764454) Homepage

How about from TRON:

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

I.V.

Re:Acid test (Score:3, Funny)

by abe ferlman ( 205607 ) writes: <bgtrio@ya[ ].com ['hoo' in gap]> on Friday August 22, 2003 @10:01AM (#6764466) Homepage Journal

Has there ever been a Clue mod for quake2?

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

got it! (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday August 22, 2003 @10:02AM (#6764476)

In Corporate America, the Grid fails YOU!

Re:Can you? (Score:2, Funny)

by NorthDude ( 560769 ) writes: on Friday August 22, 2003 @10:48AM (#6764911)

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

The funniest thing is that this reply is also one of the oldest way to get an instant +5 funny moderation.

Really not new and witty! O the irony hehe

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Can you? (Score:5, Funny)

IBM wants stress testing ? (Score:5, Funny)

All bots are now (Score:5, Funny)

Yes but (Score:5, Funny)

Re:sounds like nascent skynet (Score:3, Funny)

Old news.... (Score:5, Funny)

Screw Quake 2, do it with Vice City (Score:0, Funny)

Re:80 Users (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Can you? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:not a completely new idea (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Can you? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Can you? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:All bots are now (Score:0, Funny)

Re:The Rights of Software ? (Score:4, Funny)

Mmmm, deep bot (Score:2, Funny)

Ahh, the memories... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Can you? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:50 microseconds.. yeah! (Score:0, Funny)

Lame Matrix Reference (Score:3, Funny)

Wouldn't it be funny.. (Score:0, Funny)

In related news... (Score:2, Funny)

Bots skin... (Score:1, Funny)

Re:All bots are now (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Can you? (Score:1, Funny)

Re:IBM wants stress testing ? (Score:3, Funny)

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got it! (Score:3, Funny)

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