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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (34706)7/31/2010 1:17:04 AM
From: Charles Brown  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 46821
 
The focus seems to be on algorithmic trading, but there are larger user populations that demand low latency, e.g., VoIP and online gaming.

It's especially frustrating to get nailed in an online shooter because your response time was lousy. People lose their heads over such things! :)



To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (34706)7/31/2010 2:05:25 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio  Respond to of 46821
 
All I had to do was perform a search on gaming + cloud computing:

West Coast Grid: Is Online Gaming Cloud Computing's Killer App?
Mar 26, 2009
bit.ly

Is 'cloud computing' the future of video games? - CNN.com
Jun 16, 2010
bit.ly

RightScale Powering Social Games on Amazon's EC2
Feb 17, 2010
bit.ly

plus another ~2 million hits ...

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