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Explore the Gaming Grid for academics, artists, researchers, and gamers. Manage, control, and configure with clients, news, and message boards in a platform that supports millions of users and data objects. Join us in pushing the boundaries of MMOGs!
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Game Clients Gaming Grid Farm Game Grid for Education and Research Dr. Steven M Cutchin Manager NPACI Visualization Services San Diego Supercomputing Center http://visservices.npaci.edu/gaming
Leverage! Gaming Grid Academics Artists Academics Artists Researchers Gamers Researchers Gamers Technologists Technologists
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Experimental! Monuments and Dust:The Culture of Victorian London
Bigger IS Better! • Millions of simultaneous users • Millions of data objects • Game databases growing to the Terabyte size. • Hundreds of simultaneous games. • Picture of these items did not fit on slide.
New and Unusual! Thanks to Sony/Verant for extra artwork
Drivers wanted! • Wanted: • Motivated developers, artists, gamers, coders, innovators, and mad scientists to push all the boundaries of MMOGs. • Must be willing to work long hours for low pay, stale pizza and warm beer. Advantage: Describes most game developers!
The Triumvirate Game Culture & Technology Lab