"igazor;c-17523895" wrote:
"Nikkei_Simmer;c-17523788" wrote:
My money's on the fact that a Cray or IBM Blue will have a panic attack trying to run Sims 3.
Really? What other colors did they have that year? >:)
I think the IBM Roadrunner (now defunct - set up in 2008; shut down in 2013) wouldn't have graphics capability since it was primarily designed for computational calculations ;) rather than graphical research.
Aside from GRID (a gaming platform supercomputer connected to consumers via the Cloud...I have yet to see a supercomputer that is "graphics based" that could potentially be used as a gaming platform. Though of course, if I am able to win a few billion dollars. ~smirk~ that might be a possiblity and then maybe I might see if my "supercomputer" could handle Sims 3. Though of course with the limitation of 4GB of RAM...it will probably crash just as hard.
What might be interesting to see though is MS's Flight Simulator 2020...which is going to end up having to be run off a supercomputer with each homebased PC tapping in via portal access coding (which is the game platform that one would download that would allow access for their simulator game to feed data environment info to their personal computer from the mainframes based at MS HQ. That's going to be a landmark for computer gaming and the loss of buying the entire game in favor of buying access.
