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Yahoo Finance reports that IBM and a company called Butterfly.net Inc. will be introducing an all new technology for online games at the world's largest computer gaming faire E3 later this month.
Here's a bit from the IBM press release:
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 9, 2002--Butterfly.net, Inc., and IBM announced today the deployment of the first-ever custom commercial grid for the online video gaming market.
The Butterfly Grid(TM) could enable online video game providers to support a massive number of players within the same game by allocating computing resources to the most populated areas and most popular games.
Butterfly.net, a development studio and infrastructure provider to the online video game market, will demonstrate the Butterfly Grid system to members of the video gaming industry at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) 2002 show beginning May 21 in Los Angeles.
The Grid was built by Butterfly.net over the last two years using IBM e-business infrastructure technology that distributes the processing of video game interaction across a network of server farms, enabling Butterfly.net to support a massive number of video gamers playing simultaneously over the Internet. The Grid is a secure system built on customized software operating on the private network of Butterfly.net.
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New Online Games Technology from IBM
