Unless you have the source code for the game, and the game uses X windows, you can forget it. There is no DirectX on a Cray Unicos system. They may have OpenGL, since at one time they were part of SGI. I do not remember as I programed in X/C/Fortran. Not to mention that the T90 requires fluroinert cooling, a huge amount of power, and on-site personel to keep it running. Our C-90 cost us $1 million per year to keep up. Also, the T-90 is not the top of the line Cray machine. The SV1 is. The SV2 is due out 2002 and blows away every CPU Intel/AMD/Compaq/IBM has today or even in 2002. Sorry, I am under NDA for the SV2. The question is: Will Cray exist and can they get the chip out the door?
I run on a 650 gigaflops Cray T3E. Awesome power. Unstable as anything when it first came out. Now it runs for 3 months without a reboot and then we reboot it just because some other work is being done in the machine room that requires the T3E be off.
We are upgrading to a teraflops machine this summer (vendor undetermined yet). Even then, our machines are not the fastest in the world. Those belong to Sandia/Lawrence Livermore/Los Alamos. Maximum PC is doing an article on them for the March issue.
Now if you really want something cool, go buy a CAVE for $500K and play Quake II on it. Forget your 22" monitor. Forget any flat planel display. This is immersive 3-D at its best, including the goggles.
And finally, on Jan 29 I get to see a 3-D monitor and a R2D2 holographic device. How the 3D monitor works, I do not know ... though I have suspicions. Unfortunately I will be under NDA, so I will not be able to tell you about it. The R2D2 hologram I will be able to talk about as it is currently being sold and thus is not under NDA. Fortunately I have the money to buy both ... for the site I work for, not for me.
