用超级计算机打游戏是什么样的体验,[Quora] 在超级计算机上玩游戏是一种怎样的体验？...

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What is it like to play video games on a super computer ?

在超级计算机上玩游戏是一种怎样的体验 ？

Quora 地址：http://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-to-play-video-games-on-a-super-computer

Ernest W. Adams：

Supercomputers are designed to crunch numbers, not provide fancy graphics, so a game on a supercomputer wouldn't look better than any other -- in fact, it would probably look worse, because you can't stick a high-end graphics card into a supercomputer.

超级计算机被设计用于处理信息，而不是提供绚丽图案的，所以一个在超级电脑上运行游戏并不会与在其他计算机上有什么不同。

事实上，效果可能会更糟，因为你不能再超级计算机上插一块高端显卡。

Also, there's no real benefit to making a game play as fast as it can. If a human can't keep up, the game is unplayable. You can find that out if you try to run old games for the IBM XT on a Pentium machine. Most of them didn't have timer-based animation and so everything just runs a mile a minute. (Good Old Games does a good job of re-engineering them to run on fast machines.)

另外，让游戏运行的更快也没有什么用处。如果快到人类跟不上，游戏也不能玩了。如果你在一台使用奔腾的计算机上玩给 IBM XT 设计的老游戏你就会发现这一点。

它们大部分都没有基于定时器的动画，所以速度都是一定的。(好的老游戏在适应更快的电脑这点上做的很好。)

A supercomputer could run very large worlds, but we already do that with MMOGs on multiple servers and player machines.

超级电脑可以加载巨大的地图，但是我们已经在 MMOGs(大型多人在线游戏)上通过多服务器与玩家机器实现了这一点。

Short answer: not that different; if anything, probably worse.

简而言之：没什么不同，如果有的话，可能会更加悲剧。