Solutions for virtual world platform developers and operators

The IBM Rational Software Development Platform is a complete solution that can help your organization operate more efficiently and deliver innovative games that set you apart from your competitors. By controlling the strategic business process of software development in an open, proven and yet modular manner, you can:

• Better respond to competitors and console vendor demands
• Make development easier
• Reduce the amount of iterations
• Improve return on investment
• Increase business agility

Jazz is IBM Rational's next-generation technology platform for collaborative software delivery. It is uniquely attuned to global and distributed teams, including those found througout the Games and Interactive Entertainment industry. Rational Team Concert, the first IBM product based on Jazz, provides a collaborative portal for automating and integrating the activities involved in team-based software delivery. IBM Rational BuildForge accelerates software development, improves product quality, increases development team efficiency by automating and streamlining software delivery and supporting remote teams.

Cell Broadband Engine The Cell Broadband Engine™ processor, developed by IBM in collaboration with Sony and Toshiba, plays a key role in all three next generation consoles. The Cell/BE promises to open up new and stunningly realistic visual worlds for players.

IBM BladeCenter and System x
IBM System x™ and BladeCenter® provide robust, affordable systems that are easy to implement, manage and use. Built with X-Architecture innovation®, IBM System x™ and BladeCenter® offerings are designed with flexible configurations, enhanced memory and industry-leading availability and reliability features so you can optimize your IT infrastructure and maximize productivity across your operations. From System x enterprise servers, System x rack-mount servers, System x tower servers, to Blade Servers, Storage, and Systems management and Energy management, IBM has the infrastructure to affordably power the most demanding virtual worlds.

IBM Informix Dynamic Server
IBM Informix data servers are known worldwide for being exceptionally easy to manage while maintaining high availability and blazing online processing capabilities - making them particularly suited to Games development.

Interactive Ray Tracing
The Interactive Ray Tracer for Cell Broadband Engine™ demonstrates the power of the Cell Broadband Engine for interactively ray tracing high-definition television (HDTV) images of complex scenes, which can run on either the SONY Playstation 3 or the IBM BladeCenter QS21 Cell Broadband Engine-based platforms.

Deep computing visualization
IBM provides a scalable, collaborative, middleware infrastructure to help support and enhance the graphics functions of OpenGL software applications.