[지디넷코리아]클라우드 컴퓨팅 기술을 적용한 게임이 속속 선보이고 있어 화제다.
소니컴퓨터엔터테인먼트코리아(대표 이성욱)가 오는 16일 국내 정식 발매하는 플레이스테이션3용 게임 ‘언차티드2 : 황금도와 사라진 함대(이하 언차티드2)’가 그 주인공이다.
‘언차티드2’는 PS3의 성능을 한계까지 끌어올렸다는 평가를 받는 뛰어난 그래픽으로 E3 2009 최고의 게임으로 선정됐다. 특히 이번 작품은 전작과 달리 10인 멀티플레이를 지원하기 위해 클라우드 컴퓨팅 기술을 접목할 것으로 알려져 전 세계 게임업계의 주목을 받고 있다.
▲ 클라우드 컴퓨팅 기술을 도입해 10인 멀티플레이를 구현한 `언차티드2`
그동안 콘솔게임은 부하가 심한 그래픽 처리 프로세스로 인해 제대로 된 멀티플레이 기능을 즐기기 어려웠다. 그러나 ‘언차티드2’는 이를 효과적으로 처리할 수 있도록 기존 네트워크 기술에서 더 나아가 클라우드 컴퓨팅 기술을 접목해 성공적인 안정화를 꾀했다.
내년 초 PS3로 출시되는 ‘MAG’ 역시 클라우드 컴퓨팅 기술을 도입할 것으로 알려졌다. ‘MAG‘는 256명이 동시에 멀티플레이를 즐길 수 있는 일인칭 슈팅 게임이다. 이 게임 역시 아직까지 온라인게임에서도 시도한 적이 없는 대규모 집단 전투를 구현하기 위해 클라우드 컴퓨팅 기술을 도입했다.
클라우드 컴퓨팅이 게임업계에 활용 된 사례는 또 있다. 지난 7월에는 클라우드 컴퓨팅 게임 서비스인 ‘가이카이(Gaikai)’가 최초로 공개돼 눈길을 끌었다.
‘가이카이’는 3D그래픽 카드가 없거나 처리 능력이 부족한 플랫폼 환경에서도 웹브라우저와 플래시 프로그램만으로 최신 3D게임을 즐길 수 있도록 하는 첨단 기술이다.
이미 IT업계에서 클라우드 컴퓨팅은 화두로 자리잡은 지 오래다. 오는 13일 코엑스 그랜드볼륨에서 개최되는 ‘ACC2009-클라우드 컴퓨팅 컨퍼런스‘가 주목받고 있는 이유도 이와 같다. 이번 컨퍼런스는 한국EMC, 한국오라클, KT, 세일즈포스닷컴, VM웨어, 삼성SDS, LG CNS, 한국넷앱 등 국내외 클라우드 컴퓨팅 기술 선도 기업들이 대거 참여한다.
이번 행사에 참여할 예정인 게임업계 한 관계자는 "하루가 다르게 게임 규모가 대형화되는 추세 속에서 이제는 필수적이라고 할 수 있는 멀티플레이 환경을 구현하기 위해서는 게임업계도 클라우드 컴퓨팅 기술 연구가 적극적으로 이뤄져야 한다"고 강조했다.
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Friday, October 9, 2009
CLOUD and OGSA-DQP
삼성SDS, KT, MS, 구글, IBM.... 모두가 뛰어든다! 그런데 클라우드 컴퓨팅이 뭐야? 해답은 애플에 있다.
http://blog.naver.com/PostView.nhn?blogId=itgoon&logNo=40091629127
OGSA-DQP Coordinator Developers Guide
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/12786851/Query-Compiler-Design
http://blog.naver.com/PostView.nhn?blogId=itgoon&logNo=40091629127
OGSA-DQP Coordinator Developers Guide
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/12786851/Query-Compiler-Design
Thursday, October 8, 2009
CIA endorses cloud computing approach to bolster security
The CIA is building an internal cloud -- still a relatively new idea among federal agencies -- but won't be outsourcing data to Google or Amazon
By Patrick Thibodeau | Computerworld
WASHINGTON -- One of the U.S. government's strongest advocates of cloud computing is also one of its most secretive operations: the Central Intelligence Agency. But the CIA has adopted cloud computing in a big way, and the agency believes that the cloud approach makes IT environments more flexible and secure.
Jill Tummler Singer, the CIA's deputy CIO, says that she sees enormous benefits to a cloud approach. And while the CIA has been moving steadily to build a cloud-friendly infrastructure -- it has adopted virtualization, among other things -- cloud computing is still a relatively new idea among federal agencies.
[ Get the no-nonsense explanations and advice you need to take real advantage of cloud computing in InfoWorld editors' 21-page Cloud Computing Deep Dive PDF special report. | Stay up on the cloud with InfoWorld's Cloud Computing Report newsletter. ]
"Cloud computing as a term really didn't hit our vocabulary until a year ago," said Singer.
But now that the CIA is building an internal cloud, Singer sees numerous benefits. For example, a cloud approach could bolster security , in part, because it entails the use of a standards-based environment that reduces complexity and allows faster deployment of patches.
"By keeping the cloud inside your firewalls, you can focus your strongest intrusion-detection and -prevention sensors on your perimeter, thus gaining significant advantage over the most common attack vector, the Internet," said Singer.
Moreover, everything in a cloud environment is built on common approaches. That includes security, meaning there's a "consistent approach to assuring the identity, the access and the audit of individuals and systems," said Singer. But there are limits. The agency isn't using a Google model and "striking" data across all its servers; instead, data is kept in private enclaves protected by encryption, security and audits.
The CIA uses mostly Web-based applications and thin clients , reducing the need to administer and secure individual workstations. And it has virtualized storage, protecting itself "against a physical intruder that might be intent on taking your server or your equipment out of the data center," said Singer.
Speaking at Sys-Con Media's GovIT Expo conference today, Singer not only provided a rare glimpse into the IT approaches used by the agency, but also talked about one of its greatest challenges: the cultural change cloud environments bring to IT. A move to cloud environments "does engender and produce very real human fear that 'I'm going to lose my job,'" she said.
In practice, highly virtualized environments reduce the need for hardware administration and, consequently, for system administrators. Barry Lynn, the chairman and CEO of cloud computing provider 3tera Inc. in Aliso Viejo, Calif., said a typical environment may have one systems administrator for every 75 physical servers. In contrast, a cloud-based environment may have just one administrator for every 500 servers or more.
The CIA has "seen a significant amount of pushback, slow-rolling [and] big-process engineering efforts to try to build another human-intensive process on top of enterprise cloud computing," said Singer. "It will take us a good long while to break that."
By Patrick Thibodeau | Computerworld
WASHINGTON -- One of the U.S. government's strongest advocates of cloud computing is also one of its most secretive operations: the Central Intelligence Agency. But the CIA has adopted cloud computing in a big way, and the agency believes that the cloud approach makes IT environments more flexible and secure.
Jill Tummler Singer, the CIA's deputy CIO, says that she sees enormous benefits to a cloud approach. And while the CIA has been moving steadily to build a cloud-friendly infrastructure -- it has adopted virtualization, among other things -- cloud computing is still a relatively new idea among federal agencies.
[ Get the no-nonsense explanations and advice you need to take real advantage of cloud computing in InfoWorld editors' 21-page Cloud Computing Deep Dive PDF special report. | Stay up on the cloud with InfoWorld's Cloud Computing Report newsletter. ]
"Cloud computing as a term really didn't hit our vocabulary until a year ago," said Singer.
But now that the CIA is building an internal cloud, Singer sees numerous benefits. For example, a cloud approach could bolster security , in part, because it entails the use of a standards-based environment that reduces complexity and allows faster deployment of patches.
"By keeping the cloud inside your firewalls, you can focus your strongest intrusion-detection and -prevention sensors on your perimeter, thus gaining significant advantage over the most common attack vector, the Internet," said Singer.
Moreover, everything in a cloud environment is built on common approaches. That includes security, meaning there's a "consistent approach to assuring the identity, the access and the audit of individuals and systems," said Singer. But there are limits. The agency isn't using a Google model and "striking" data across all its servers; instead, data is kept in private enclaves protected by encryption, security and audits.
The CIA uses mostly Web-based applications and thin clients , reducing the need to administer and secure individual workstations. And it has virtualized storage, protecting itself "against a physical intruder that might be intent on taking your server or your equipment out of the data center," said Singer.
Speaking at Sys-Con Media's GovIT Expo conference today, Singer not only provided a rare glimpse into the IT approaches used by the agency, but also talked about one of its greatest challenges: the cultural change cloud environments bring to IT. A move to cloud environments "does engender and produce very real human fear that 'I'm going to lose my job,'" she said.
In practice, highly virtualized environments reduce the need for hardware administration and, consequently, for system administrators. Barry Lynn, the chairman and CEO of cloud computing provider 3tera Inc. in Aliso Viejo, Calif., said a typical environment may have one systems administrator for every 75 physical servers. In contrast, a cloud-based environment may have just one administrator for every 500 servers or more.
The CIA has "seen a significant amount of pushback, slow-rolling [and] big-process engineering efforts to try to build another human-intensive process on top of enterprise cloud computing," said Singer. "It will take us a good long while to break that."