Command & Conquer coded in HTML5
January 24, 2012 – 9:57 pm | No Comment

Remember the classic RTS known as Command & Conquer? Well, an enterprising coder, Aditya Ravi Shankar, actually recreated the strategy game using nothing but HTML5, where it runs on 69k of Javascript. Why did he set out on such an adventure? For starters, Shankar’s attempt was a self-mandated undertaking in order to improve his coding skills, where he gave himself a one month window to rebuild the game in the browser, and had to comb through the original game’s files in order to obtain all the right sprites, sounds and specs. According to Shankar, “In hindsight, I might have wanted to take smaller steps and make a tower defense game instead of jumping directly into an RTS. Trying to do the whole thing in under a month all by myself wasn’t the smartest idea.” As part of Shankar’s recreation of Command & Conquer, it included buildings, terrain, combat, tiberium harvesting and regrowth, in addition to the ability to sell and repair buildings. You want fog of war? It has that, too, in addition to a pannable map, different cursors, …

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Intel talks about SCC: Single-chip Cloud Computer

Submitted by admin on December 2, 2009 – 1:41 pmNo Comment

This morning, Intel’s CTO Justin Ratter was presenting their “Single-Chip Cloud Computer” concept. This is not a product, but a research project to determine if such a product would be viable. The fundamental question is: “can we replace a server rack with a single chip?”

A small R&D team has nonetheless built a 45nm, 48 cores (24 dual-core x86), 1.3B transistors chip physical processor for evaluation purposes. The power management makes it possible to scale consumption from 25 to 125W. The chip also contains 4 DDR3 memory controllers to serve the many cores inside.

Intel will release the processor to “dozens” of partners like universities and key software companies like Microsoft. They are the software experts and will provide critical feedback to Intel. Microsoft has demonstrated a version of Visual Studio that can take advantage of the new features of this processor (the cache memory is managed differently when compared to classic Intel processors)

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