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Microsoft and NASA demonstration with the XBONE

timbers_WSU · 2013-06-13 07:44:15

http://www.polygon.com/2013/6/13/4427394/xbox-one-developers-team-up-nasaIn a small room tucked away at the back of Microsoft's E3 booth, developers behind the company's upcoming and now controversial Xbox One shared a tech demo created with the aid of NASA in an attempt to push the technical limits of what Microsoft's Geoff Henshaw calls the system's 'pure horsepower.' The demo itself is largely the work of programmer Frank Savage who with a team began the experiment with the system by searching for a 'giant set of data,' says Henshaw. The goal: To see what is possible using the pure computational horsepower of the new console.'So we went to NASA, because NASA has this really cool database. It has every single celestial body in the inner solar system, including planets, moons, asteroids, comets.' says Henshaw. The result is a tech demo simulation of space based on out to 35 thousand light years of data which tracks the position, velocity and orbital trajectory of every single subset of asteroids between Mars and Pluto. Each of the 40,000 asteroids are calculated and rendered, presenting its time and place to a high degree of accuracy.' It's an example of the possibilities of the system, which according to Henshaw includes the ability to feature '10,000 or 100,000 enemies in-game' while maintaining a high level of realism and fluidity in the near-field view by offloading it to the cloud. Comparatively, to get the same result from last-generation consoles it would require '10 and a half Xbox 360 consoles all working in parallel' in terms of computational horsepower, he adds. 'This is how the cloud will change the gaming experience,' he says. 'If a developer wants to do really crazy stuff we can see how he can map and compute 330,000 asteroids in real-time via global cloud computing. There are 500,000 updates per second from the cloud to Xbox One. Developers tell us this is a miracle for them. Even the highest of highest PCs could not do all of this at once, it really takes global cloud computing resources.' Xbox One makes roughly 100,000 servers available and dozens of data centres for developers to use a number that Henshaw says is likely to grow over time. 'We're just scratching the surface of what can be done,' he says.Awesome little read. Hopefully we can talk about the post and avoid trolling. :lol:

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#51 Midnightshade29

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I think you mean NSA.
ninjapirate2000

Yeah... Obama disbanded Nasa.... the prick... ugghh... Too bad, I wish my kids could know the wonder of the space program... now its run by greedy corps who fly rich guys like Richard Garriet on tours at zero G. Isn't this like Sony's "the power of the cell - doing super computing with multiple ps3s networked togeather in tandem? It means f@k for gaming.

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#52 hexashadow13

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[QUOTE="Jonwh18"]
[QUOTE="psymon100"]
Thank you Jon.
If I'm reading this right, maybe they have specifically chosen this test as it might totally saturate a ADSL2+ connection.
But I still feel the cloud is a moot point anyway. Sony, Nintendo, Valve, Ubisoft - anyone could make a game which has local maths supplemented by cloud maths.
clyde46

Not to mention that if a gaming rig couldn't perform this demo as the OP implies then it is obviously using more server power then each individual X1 is likely to be allotted anyway making it an unrealistic demonstration of the X1's abilities.

A gaming rig can though. http://en.spaceengine.org/

Those things are nowhere near the same. Space Engine does not real time render anywhere near the amount of objects that NASA was, nor is that it's purpose. It doesn't render small stuff. And unless you're near something it just renders based on Hippa/Tycho catalogs.

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#53 Capitan_Kid

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So TC how's it feel being Uncle Sam's little bitch?

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#54 Krelian-co

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nasa: because they don't know pcs are like 10 times stronger than those consoles xD

also, lols timbers thread

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#56 ninjapirate2000

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[QUOTE="ninjapirate2000"]
I think you mean NSA.
Midnightshade29

Yeah... Obama disbanded Nasa.... the prick... ugghh... Too bad, I wish my kids could know the wonder of the space program... now its run by greedy corps who fly rich guys like Richard Garriet on tours at zero G. Isn't this like Sony's "the power of the cell - doing super computing with multiple ps3s networked togeather in tandem? It means f@k for gaming.

There's still SpaceX by Elon Musk. I have a lot of faith in SpaceX.

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