Intel Streams the Pwnage, 111!!!
Intel has been demoing a system where a graphically challenging or bandwidth sucking application such as Crysis or Second Life can be run on a central desktop PC and then streamed to other lesser computers or devices, regardless of their graphics card, processing power or operating system.
At least one demo of this concept utilized software from StreamMyGame, which can be seen in the somewhat fanboyish video below allowing Crysis to be played on a Eee 701. I also read recently of a Demo in which Second Life was run on a central PC, but viewed and controlled from several Intel MIDs. Pretty impressive stuff, as is the idea that now you can host ultimate LAN parties or work sessions where everyone can join in regardless of their system.
However, isn’t this entire idea just a rebottling of the mid 90s “Thin Client” strategy, in which many people who were supposed to know what they were talking about were absolutely sure that by the year 2000 offices would be filled with weak, hamstrung PCs which would run applications on and access files from a central server only, depending on the “big brother” server for processing power. This was supposed to be the next sure thing, but it joined other “waves of the future” such as the “paperless office” and “Internet enabled kitchen appliances” in a storage room somewhere, next to the betamax and a pile of Atari ET cartridges.
For now, this looks like a cool Proof of Concept and a way to really make your kid’s 14th birthday party rock…but I have yet to see a compelling, “killer” use for what seems like a very complex, difficult to configure technology.
We shall see.
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