OnLive and remote visualisation
Mar. 26th, 2009 09:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylS pointed me — actually, given his level of evangelism, I was more a frogmarched than pointed — towards the recent stuff about the OnLive online gaming system.
Interestingly, I remember going to a whole load of SGI presentations on something similar — remote visualisation — back in 2001 or so. Of course, they were using an Onyx 3000 to covert large data sets into polygons and a high bandwidth OC line to shunt the results to an output device. I'm not quite sure what happened — it seemed like a pretty cool, if expensive, concept — but I don't think it was ever turned into a commercial product.
In other news, I notice that WD have come out with a 2TB hard disc. That's more storage than the Cray had 10 years ago. God, I feel old...
Interestingly, I remember going to a whole load of SGI presentations on something similar — remote visualisation — back in 2001 or so. Of course, they were using an Onyx 3000 to covert large data sets into polygons and a high bandwidth OC line to shunt the results to an output device. I'm not quite sure what happened — it seemed like a pretty cool, if expensive, concept — but I don't think it was ever turned into a commercial product.
In other news, I notice that WD have come out with a 2TB hard disc. That's more storage than the Cray had 10 years ago. God, I feel old...
