vnunet.com Big Blue's grid guns for gamers Super powerful grid computing is in the firing line as the first ever computing grid to support the online gaming sector goes live.
IBM launched the backbone for what may well be the next-generation internet late last year, setting up a grid computing data centre in Oxford.
Grid computing works on the same principle as distributed computing programs like SETI@home, except that enormously powerful data centres are linked up around the globe instead of desktop machines.