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Highly-parallel Integrated Virtual Environment

Highly-parallel Integrated Virtual Environment or HIVE is a type of cluster computer based on a grid of Linux PCs. The first HIVE was created in 1997, and the concept continues today in Grid computing. The virtual environment Second Life is run off of a HIVE system of several thousand linux PCs.

A HIVE is made up of one queen (central processor and co-ordinator) a number of drones (specialised computers such as dedicated graphics processors or login servers) and an unlimited number of bees (brute force data crunchers).

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Vivox, Bringing Integrated Voice to Virtual Worlds
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Waldo Avatars
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(14/05/2007)
Gartner research have predicted that in five years time 80 percent of Internet users will have an alternate life within at least one virtual environment.

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A collaboration between researchers at Northwestern University, Sandia National Labs and the University of New Mexico has resulted in the largest-scale study ever done on what many consider an important part of the future of computing -- th...


(01/11/2008)
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(24/09/2003)
Ray Kurzweil, prominent voice in accellerating intelligence, spoke to the World Economic Forum yesterday, solely by communicating through a virtual environment, projected round his form, and transmitted across the world using cutting edge t...


(21/10/2005)
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