Comments on: AMD and OTOY Working Together on “Fastest Supercomputer Ever”

By: OTOY: Xbox,PS3 y Wii, a preocuparse… | Tecnodatum

OTOY: Xbox,PS3 y Wii, a preocuparse… | Tecnodatum — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:59:14 +0000

[...] de información la realizan servidores especializados para esta función. Hay que recalcar que esta compañía trabaja en unión con AMD, segundo fabricante de procesadores a nivel mundial. Se podría llamar un negocio redondo, pues de [...]

By: OTOY en action, première vidéo démo à voir absolument | MKT planet - News Web Marketing - Nouvelles Technologies

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:32:47 +0000

[...] Depuis le début OTOY tente de proposer un une technologie en 3D en ligne depuis ses serveurs afin de pouvoir offrir une nouvelle dimension aux jeux vidéos en ligne. Une video circulant sur le web nous avait tous intrigué. Et OTOY est entrain de toucher au but. OTOY est 100% basé sur navigateur et compatible avec tous les navigateurs. Il faut simplement une connexion à large bande passante et vous obtiendrez des graphiques en 720p (HD) sans aucune extension ou téléchargement nécessaire, rien qu’en streaming. Le tout provient des serveurs mêmes de OTOY et sont transmis vers vous directement via le web instantanément. Le concept est en train de séduire pas mal de monde et OTOY vient de s’ associer avec EA et AMD. [...]

By: OTOY en action, première vidéo démo à voir absolument

OTOY en action, première vidéo démo à voir absolument — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:24:45 +0000

[...] Depuis le début OTOY tente de proposer un une technologie en 3D en ligne depuis ses serveurs afin de pouvoir offrir une nouvelle dimension aux jeux vidéos en ligne. Une video circulant sur le web nous avait tous intrigué. Et OTOY est entrain de toucher au but. OTOY est 100% basé sur navigateur et compatible avec tous les navigateurs. Il faut simplement une connexion à large bande passante et vous obtiendrez des graphiques en 720p (HD) sans aucune extension ou téléchargement nécessaire. Le tout provient des serveurs mêmes de OTOY et sont transmis vers vous directement via le web instantanément. OTOY s’est associe avec EA et AMD. [...]

By: Videos: OTOY In Action. You Have To See This.

Videos: OTOY In Action. You Have To See This. — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:19:13 +0000

[...] When we first looked at OTOY about a year ago, the small company was trying to deliver a server-side 3D rendering technology that could allow modern video games to be played on basically any client. A lofty goal, for sure. Then OnLive was unveiled in March at GDC, and sent ripples around much of the gaming world with a similar concept. But OTOY believes it has a more lightweight and elegant way to do things, that is also more extensible. And it has a couple of key partnerships to prove it: EA and AMD. [...]

By: Miles

Miles — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:12:02 +0000

The Otoy system is supposed to be scalable all the way down to older, slower devices, mobile devices etc. and with a cloud system there would always be a backup, as they state in the article, they would make more than one… then the load could be distributed if there is a problem with one server… if that’s what you want to call one of the most powerful computers on Earth…

By: chris

chris — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:14:27 +0000

Your very right. The Cell BE by IBM is truly a leap forward in CPU structure capability. It is generations ahead of any x86 based chip. The Cell BE is a much better solution in a world of continuously increasing media rich environments. I just wish IBM provided a CELL based desktop system.

By: Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger » Blog Archive Are you ready for virtual actors in movies? «

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:40:45 +0000

[...] 1. Charlie Boswell, who has the coolest job at AMD, working with movie studios to make special effects where he talks to me about what he’s working on and tells me about Light Stage. If you are into movies, he talks to me about a bunch of movie houses and how they are using technology. 2. Jules Orbach, CEO of Light Stage/OTOY, showing me some clips of what these virtual actors can do. He was also up on stage during the AMD keynote and Barron’s Online has a live blog of that. On stage AMD and OTOY announced they were working on the fastest supercomputer ever. [...]

By: ujjwal kumar

ujjwal kumar — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:06:09 +0000

Not only games, but 3d modelling stuff and very complex algorithms will be easier to tackle.. problems like TSP which are unsolvable with the present supercomputers may become solvable…

By: gamelog » OTOY serverside rendering

gamelog » OTOY serverside rendering — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:49:07 +0000

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By: orly

orly — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:49:12 +0000

even the most popular games have been used to describe porn as the driving force behind technology.

By: banjo

banjo — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:18:40 +0000

Wow the vast majority of comments here are astroturfing. Simply amazing.

By: Rather not say

Rather not say — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:22:14 +0000

Techcrunch is really falling for one big scam here – the mother of all BS stories perhaps. Please, Mike, hear us out.

Take a *niche* MMO like Eve Online with its 45,000 concurrent users. To render this locally with today’s graphics would take 45,000 graphics cards put together. To render it with the movie-quality CGI they claim, would take an unimaginable number of graphics processors put together – Pixar have gigancic servers farms and yet do not even render in real time for *one* monitor.

Even if they managed to get their hands on a chip that’s from the future (terminator-style perhaps?), they still would need to have one per concurrent user and the energy required to run the farm would be incredible – beyond the one of a small city. You’d need your own coal plant.

Finally, there’s the bandwidth issue in unicast. While doable, the cost to operate this would be very high.

Put everything together, and add the myriads of issues MMO currently have (seems that Warcrafts can’t even support more than a few thousand users per shards as it is), and you have the bottom line: this is vaporware.

Either you fell for the BS story of the century or you have an interest in maintaining it. Very strange!

By: Will

Will — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:00:20 +0000

Welcome to the Brave New World where PCs will be forbidden and all your data could only be stored on the net.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:56:24 +0000

The future is not wired broadband but wireless satelite connected broadband, which can be used anywhere at fiber-optic speeds (eventually). As such, I see this as having great potential in a number of fields!

Jon
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By: gamer

gamer — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:58:56 +0000

really really sweet games.

games – the driving force behind all advances in technology.

By: TECHNOLOGY « Daily Marauder

TECHNOLOGY « Daily Marauder — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:15:27 +0000

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By: kalqlate

kalqlate — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:08:31 +0000

You do the same thing as you would do with any other website… you wait. Most of the world’s real computing is done on the most-of-the-time-on and some-of-the-time-off Internet.

By: kalqlate

kalqlate — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:17:13 +0000

Well said! And I have to agree with you about YouTube–it will prove to be a great investment. It has become the mecca for all forms of media and all cultures around the globe. Another prediction for the future of YouTube… it will be the centerpiece for the fruition of global/ubiquitous and immersive telepresence, as soon as the needed technology is available and cheap enough.

By: maxxza.com » Blog Archive » Sci/Tech

maxxza.com » Blog Archive » Sci/Tech — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:16:24 +0000

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By: Jerky_san

Jerky_san — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:48:43 +0000

I see where people might be coming from about but I see this is a very strong leap forward. Think about it.. with obama coming into the presidency and all the talk of conservation coming from his administration. It will be much like a power company as in its very inefficiency to produce power from a gas generator at each person’s home. Kinda like the same concept with this.. all the horse power in one place with all the energy usage centered in a single area thus cutting back on energy usage in general.. Perhaps a step towards conservation?

By: Zx

Zx — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:48:16 +0000

You’re simply another person who doesn’t understand the concept of this. Try to realize the difference between centralized real-time content and localized real-time content. Re-read how it works until you get it.

Not only does this give incredible scale and power, it can do so on one’s comparatively crappy computer, even in the palm of one’s hand.

As far as YouTube, Google couldn’t ask for more. Just watch in the next few years. Not only will it become very profitable as Google reduces bandwidth costs and is finally now doing the obvious (having video sponsors in search results), but YT will continue to grow and be the go-to place for all things TV/Video as TV sets are fully connected to the web. Beyond that, it’s one of the #1 vehicles for influencing people and getting the word out about something; that’s a hell of a lot of power that Google has, maybe of the best investment they’ve ever made.

By: Daves

Daves — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:38:14 +0000

OTOY’s a giant vaporware scam. Remember how that video they were showing off was completely fake and was a rendering from some guy’s demo reel?!

By: Zx

Zx — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:29:55 +0000

You must not understand the processing level involved in actually creating a complex environment in real-time.

An individual’s current CPUs/GPUs/bandwidth doesn’t even scratch the surface, unless you’re confusing static content (watching a Blu-ray disc) and extremely simplistic data like a video game/MMO server.

Server-side/cloud computing is absolutely the future of a lot of consumer-based software because it’ll always be thousands of steps ahead of what individual computers can do on their own.

By: Vlad

Vlad — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:16:56 +0000

Current GPUs are already capable of producing near -cinematic quality video and costs less then $200. Why will somebody need this “cloud”? Will go straight to deadpool, imo.

By: AMDとOTOY、「世界最速コンピュータ」によるサーバーサイドレンダリングの共同作業中

AMDとOTOY、「世界最速コンピュータ」によるサーバーサイドレンダリングの共同作業中 — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:07:59 +0000

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