終結了我多年以來的妄想
What is it like to play video games on a super computer ?
在超級計算機上玩游戲是一種怎樣的體驗 ？
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.
超級計算機被設計用于處理信息，而不是提供絢麗圖案的，所以一個在超級電腦上運行游戲并不會與在其他計算機上有什么不同。
事實上，效果可能會更糟，因為你不能再超級計算機上插一塊高端顯卡。
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，讓游戲運行的更快也沒有什么用處。如果快到人類跟不上，游戲也不能玩了。如果你在一臺使用奔騰的計算機上玩給 IBM XT 設計的老游戲你就會發現這一點。
它們大部分都沒有基于定時器的動畫，所以速度都是一定的。（好的老游戲在適應更快的電腦這點上做的很好。）
A supercomputer could run very large worlds, but we already do that with MMOGs on multiple servers and player machines.
超級電腦可以加載巨大的地圖，但是我們已經在 MMOGs（大型多人在線游戲）上通過多服務器與玩家機器實現了這一點。
Short answer: not that different; if anything, probably worse.
簡而言之：沒什么不同，如果有的話，可能會更加悲劇。
