Sony Is Venturing Into Online Games for Multitudes. Sony will announce on Thursday that it will use the grid computing to accelerate its push into the market for online games with thousands of players. By Steve Lohr. [New York Times: Business]
Here's an exerpt from Butterfly.net's press release http://www.butterfly.net/buzz/releases/index.html
(MARTINSBURG, W. VA - February 27th, 2003)- IBM and Grid pioneer Butterfly.net announced today that Butterfly has signed a Play Station®2 Tools and Middleware agreement with Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. to provide technology and networking services for the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system. As part of the agreement, the companies activated a first-of-its-kind computing grid that allows online game developers to take advantage of the advanced capabilities of PlayStation®2 and to more efficiently provision resources to meet the increasing demands of console gamers.
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