2007 IBM Corporation Game Tomorrow! The Science - and Future - of Gaming 2007 IBM Corporation A brief history of gaming 2007 IBM Corporation It all s tarted with just a blip The first game consoles did only one thing play Pong! Cost you a quarter in the arcade before you could buy it for your home 2007 IBM Corporation Games are really speeding up! Gran Turismo (Playstation, 1997)Gran Turismo HD (Playstation 3, 2008 est.) 34 megahertz 3.2 gigahertz 95 times more powerful! This means games are: Faster More realistic More complex Cooler! 2007 IBM Corporation What if other things advanced as fast as game processors? Went 88 MPH Got 12 MPG Go 180,224 MPH Get 24,576 MPG If, in 1973: Today, it would: Take 8.8 seconds to fly from L.A. to New York City Thats because processor capabilities double every 3 years! A Rolls-Royce And an airplane would: 2007 IBM Corporation Game consoles are really supercharged computers! 1 TFlop 1 GFlop Game Processor PC Processor 2007 IBM Corporation What makes it all work? 2007 IBM Corporation It starts with the engine 250 million ultra-tiny transistors (and every one of them has to work correctly!) 9 brains (what we call cores) working together Hundreds of engineers from three companies in Japan and the US, and three years to build it Designed to work faster and be more realistic Heres what it takes to create an advanced gaming chip 2007 IBM Corporation But its about much more than the chips Hardware Software Networking Story Chips, graphics cards, memory, fans, power supplies Operating systems, sound & graphics capabilities Characters, design, plot, levels So you can play against others and most importantly, The educated, creative people who make games! 2007 IBM Corporation So where is this all going? 2007 IBM Corporation What else can gaming technology do? Cure diseases Help you learn more quickly Help businesses make money Make our country safer Its more than a game! 2007 IBM Corporation For example, regular technology can just show this But game technology can help show this 2007 IBM Corporation Gaming is new way of looking at computing! Individual Connected Inside Level of Interaction Time 2007 IBM Corporation IBMs World Community Grid links the unused power of 450,000 computers to help: Create new AIDS medicines Find and diagnose cancer earlier Understand the human body A network of game consoles can push these efforts into high gear And if we link the power of thousands of game consoles, anythings possible! 2007 IBM Corporation Teen Second Life: A 3D online space where your avatar lives You can build virtual buildings and machines, socialize and exchange ideas with other teens, - even start a business! Soon, different 3D worlds will connect like Web sites! Imagine the whole Internet looking like a game! 2007 IBM Corporation So what kind of jobs of the future will involve gaming technology? In the future you could be using technology developed for gaming to: Build a skyscraper Design a car Cure a disease Protect the environment Run a business 2007 IBM Corporation Do you want to be part of this? Do well in school! Spend extra time on math & science it all starts with algebra! Communicate your ideas effectively through both speaking and writing Learn to work with others 2007 IBM Corporation