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Last updated: Friday, January 9, 2009

AMD is planning a revolution in the cloud — a gaming revolution. The chipmaker’s International Consumer Electronics Show buzz revolved around a plan to develop, deploy and deliver high-definition content through the AMD Fusion Render Cloud, a massively parallel supercomputer. AMD plans to provide the hardware and engineering resources for the cloud, with OTOY providing technical software development and a middleware layer. AMD is designing the system to enable content providers to deliver video games, PC applications, and other graphically intensive apps through the Internet to virtually any type of mobile device with a Web browser. The supercomputer promises to do this without making the device rapidly deplete battery life or struggle to process the content. AMD’s Grand Plans AMD President and CEO Dirk Meyer announced the plans during AMD’s Industry Insider Series keynote address at CES. Lucasfilm, Dell, HP and Electronic Arts joined AMD on the stage at the Las Vegas Hilton Theater. Meyer said this is a supercomputer “unlike any other ever built.” AMD is designing the supercomputer to break the one-petaflop barrier and to process a million compute threads across more than 1,000 graphics processors. “We anticipate it to be the fastest graphics supercomputer ever. And it will be powered by OTOY’s software for a singular purpose: to make HD cloud computing a reality. We plan to have this system ready by the second half of 2009,” Meyer said. AMD has a long track record in the supercomputing world. Meyer pointed out that seven out of 10 of the world’s fastest machines, including the fastest two computers on the planet, are powered by AMD hardware. What the Fusion Render Cloud Can Do The AMD Fusion Render Cloud aims to transform movie and gaming experiences through server-side rendering — which stores visually rich content in a cloud, compresses it, and streams it in real time…

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