IBM to open islands in virtual world
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IBM Corp. is launching an ambitious marketing campaign in the hip virtual world "Second Life."
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Game Developer Conference -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Vivox, the leading provider of integrated voice services for online games and virtual worlds, are working together to bring integrated voice communication to the games and interactive entertainment market.
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Claiming grid technology continues to expand outside its traditional scientific and research markets, IBM on Friday is announcing that several grid-based commercial projects built on IBM platforms have been launched, including one at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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InfoWorld - It may be too early to talk plug-and-play but IBM&#160;believes it can help businesses of all sizes easily cluster their servers to handle intensive computing workloads.
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Sony introduces two impressive virtual worlds that let PS3 owners hang out and be creative. Chris Kohler reports from the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
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(InfoWorld) - IBM has chosen Sao Paulo as the sixth global location for its specialized software and services laboratories known as "Hipods" or high-performance on-demand solutions facilities, which focus on resolving large-scale computing issues for IBM customers, including eBayÂ and Google. IBM opened the multimillion dollar Brazilian lab Tuesday. The lab will be linked to five existing Hipods worldwide -- IBM's central Hipod facility in its Santa Teresa lab in San Jose, California, and Hipod satellite operations in Beijing; Bangalore, India; Yamato, Japan; and Hursley, U.K. Although IBM won't put a precise financial figure on its Hipod investments, the company did give some sense of the labs' combined computing power. Together, the six Hipods contain more than 1,000 servers, draw on over 20TB of data and employ more than 200 staff, according to Kristof Kloeckner, vice president of strategy and technology for IBM's software group. Researchers in the six Hipods can collaborate virtually with each other using grid computing to quickly form project teams and assign server, software and storage resources for a particular project. They can use their pooled resources to simulate customers' IT environments or a particular computing issue a large user is trying to resolve. When IBM set up its first Hipod four to five years ago, it was to create a team to build knowledge around how best to configure and build high-volume Web sites like online auction site eBay, Kloeckner said. EBay has been a major customer for IBM first in the U.S. and more recently in China, turning to the Hipods for advice on how to scale up its worldwide operations to serve 200 million users. Over time, the Hipods teams have widened their focus to other areas including process automation, virtualization and approaches to SOA (service-oriented architecture). For instance, the labs researchers have come up with a Web-based service to determine how SOA-based workloads perform when used by businesses such as those in banking, travel and insurance. In India, the Bangalore Hipod researchers built a service delivery platform for local mobile phone operator Bharti Airtel to help the rapidly growing carrier handle the addition of 1 million new customers per month, Kloeckner said. Other IBM customers that have also worked with Hipods include Ford Motor, Gap, the New York Stock Exchange, Visa International Service Association, and Whirlpool. Brazil was "the obvious choice" for a Latin American Hipod given the country's size, Kloeckner said, and also continues the vendor's investment in Brazil. IBM has identified five emerging markets it dubs the BRICK countries -- Brazil,Â Russia, India, China and South Korea -- as specific nations where it's keen to invest multimillions of dollars to attract more local customers and partners. Last year, IBM moved its Latin American headquarters from Miami to Sao Paulo. Kloeckner pointed out that IBM'sÂ planned $740 million acquisitionÂ of industrial asset management software vendor MRO SoftwareÂ announced last month will net the company an additional 40- to 50-person team in Brazil. As to where IBM might plan to put a seventh Hipod, the "next logical move" would be Central Europe, Kloeckner said. Although no decisions have been made yet, the vendor may look to establish a Hipod in either Poland or Russia in the coming years, he added.
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IBM Corp. has announced it has built a supercomputer that surpasses the performance of the Earth Simulator in Yokohama, Japan, the computer widely regarded as the worldâs most powerful.
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IBM wants to see how it can make 3D virtual environments pay off for it and its customers.
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As part of its ongoing effort to foster third-party application development for its hardware and software businesses, IBM on Monday unveiled resources in its Virtual Innovation Center aimed
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Sony has unveiled plans for its own virtual universe for the PlayStation 3 where users will be able to socialise, shop and even go to the movies -- all without setting foot outside in the real world.
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Sprawling virtual worlds in which  electronic avatars do battle with mythical beasts may offer  game publishers a unique chance to combat piracy, especially in  Asia, where the format is wildly popular.
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This morning, IBM, in conjunction with Vivendi game developer High Moon Studios and Canadian high-performance developer RapidMind,  launched a coast-to-coast event to interest developers into building a new gaming platform around the Cell.
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(InfoWorld) - It may be too early to talk plug-and-play but IBMÂ believes it can help businesses of all sizes easily cluster their servers to handle intensive computing workloads. Leveraging its expertise in high-end computing and vertical industry applications, IBM has launched several initiatives to allow small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) and the departments of large enterprises to integrate their servers -- from as few as two to many thousands -- into computing clusters designed for high-performance computing tasks, the company said Wednesday. Initially targeted at the businesses in the life sciences, computer-aided engineering, and finance sectors, IBM will offer preconfigured "snap-together" cluster systems for customers using the company's computers and storage devices. The systems are designed to run on Linux and Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 operating systems and will include networking technology from companies such as Cisco Systems. The collaboration with Microsoft will allow businesses to use parallel processing on clusters to free up client machines from long-running applications. ISVs (independent software vendors) and business partners will receive tools to help them introduce IBM's cluster systems. These include sizing guides with predefined cluster configurations for simple ordering and installation. IBM business partners have access to the company's Cluster Enablement Team for technical questions and advice. For customers, software vendors and business partners running Microsoft cluster servers, IBM has four new benchmarking facilities in Poughkeepsie, New York, Raleigh, North Carolina, Beaverton, Oregon and Montpelier, France. These centers join a network of global Linux benchmark centers. To attract businesses interested in computing clusters, IBM's Deep Computing Capacity on Demand centers will give them access to more than 20,000 processors to test the technology for themselves. IBM offers a range of products that support computing clusters, including its System x, System p and BladeCenter servers, as well as the IBM System Storage and IBM System Cluster 1350.
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TechWeb - IBM works with Microsoft and other application vendors to expand the use of its hardware in computer clusters and mainframes.
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New York: The US-based software major IBM, along with representatives of the world&#39;s leading science, education and philanthropic outfits, has launched a global effort aimed at harnessing the vast computing power of individuals and business computers and
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CBS Corp.  will invest in  virtual world content developer Electric Sheep Co., the U.S.  television broadcaster said on Monday. hoping to expand its  reach beyond the living room.
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Big Blue's Grady Booch is continuing to explore ways to collaborate through applications such as Second Life.