Game grid backed by Cisco
Butterfly.net receives another $10 million in funding from backers including Cisco Systems.
Butterfly.net, an IBM-backed company aimed at creating on an on-demand computing infrastructure for running online games, announced Monday it has received another $10 million in funding from backers including networking equipment giant Cisco Systems. two years ago to apply grid computing techniques--in which large computing tasks are divvied up among multiple systems--to the challenging business of running multiplayer online games.
