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Six Flags prototyped its gaming hub in San Antonio. Mexico City next.

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Six Flags prototyped its gaming hub in San Antonio. Mexico City next.

Bathed in blue and red lighting while seated onstage at high-end PCs, celebrity gamers are immersed in “Fortnite,” a popular online video game. Their every move is captured on video feeds being watched by fans as the action is described by announcers in a broadcast booth.

If it sounds a little like a pro sporting event, that’s because it is. The gamers are competitors in a two-day tournament — with $30,000 up for grabs — at ESIX Gaming powered by Coca-Cola. It’s a first-of-its-kind facility and one the operators of Six Flags Fiesta Texas hope will give youthful visitors and their families a new reason to visit and stay longer at the park.

It was working that way during the recent tournament. In front of the stage, young people wearing headsets at rows of computers were also playing “Fortnite.” As they navigated the game and discussed strategies with friends, family members were a few feet away munching on snacks, charging phones and browsing gaming equipment and clothes for sale by Six Flags.

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San Antonio Spurs player Tre Jones — a gaming fan who had a spot on stage with the pros — appeared to be as excited to be there as a Spurs fan might be to sit courtside at a basketball game. 

“I watch a lot of them,” he said of the pro gamers. “To play with them was a dream come true.”

Other fans got a chance to meet the pros during breaks in the tournament, when star gamers known by stage names such as as Bugha, Sommerset, Kaz and Zemie mingled and posed for photos.

Players intently watch their screens during Saturday's E6 gaming tournament in a new e-gaming facility recently completed at Six Flags Fiesta Texas. There was over $30,000 in prize money for the event.
Players intently watch their screens during Saturday’s E6 gaming tournament in a new e-gaming facility recently completed at Six Flags Fiesta Texas. There was over $30,000 in prize money for the event.
Robin Jerstad
Players from all over the country man their screens during Saturday's E6 gaming tournament in a new e-gaming facility recently completed at Six Flags Fiesta Texas. There was over $30,000 in prize money for the event.
Players from all over the country man their screens during Saturday’s E6 gaming tournament in a new e-gaming facility recently completed at Six Flags Fiesta Texas. There was over $30,000 in prize money for the event.
Robin Jerstad
Kyle Rapozo, better known in gaming circles as Kazify, plays during Saturday's E6 gaming tournament in a new e-gaming facility recently completed at Six Flags Fiesta Texas. There was over $30,000 in prize money for the event.
Kyle Rapozo, better known in gaming circles as Kazify, plays during Saturday’s E6 gaming tournament in a new e-gaming facility recently completed at Six Flags Fiesta Texas. There was over $30,000 in prize money for the event.
Robin Jerstad


Players from across the country watch their screens during E6’s recent gaming tournament at Six Flags Fiesta Texas’ new e-gaming facility. Kyle Rapozo, (bottom right) better known in gaming circles as Kazify, was one of those players vying for a piece of the $30,000 in prize money.

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UC San Diego heads energy to make computer chips do the job a great deal more quickly

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UC San Diego heads energy to make computer chips do the job a great deal more quickly

When doing work with large laptop information, the data can operate into a bottleneck, and shifting data from storage to processing normally takes way too lengthy. UC San Diego’s professor of pc science and engineering Tajana Simunic Rosing phone calls it a fundamental difficulty.

“When you evaluate significant data, this sort of as new equipment understanding types, what ends up occurring is you close up paying much more than 90% of the time shifting knowledge to the laptop,” Rosing claimed.

The resolution is to boost artificial intelligence by producing pc chips that course of action details and shop information in a way that is a great deal smarter and a lot more integrated.

“We transfer regardless of what processing we can to exactly where the info sits,” Rosing claimed. “That way it can run a whole lot more rapidly and we can waste a ton considerably less time.”

The center Rosing talks about is identified as PRISM, the Processing with Clever Storage and Memory Centre, founded in January and led by UC San Diego. The $50 million operation includes 10 universities and is mainly funded by the Semiconductor Research Company.

Examples of the personal computer bottleneck include just one that’s nicely known to news media that generate video clip information like KPBS: It will take a big total of time to send details-hefty movie documents to a personal computer to be processed and mined for movie clips.

Rosing indicates a future option, making use of superior computer system chips.

“What you would preferably like to do is you would like to deliver a small question. ‘Find me a clip when somebody talks about new personal computer chip design and style, and ship me only that clip,’” she reported.

That request, she added, would go out to wherever the full video clip is stored, the specified clip would be uncovered and sent to the user, whilst the unique whole video file could remain in which it is.

Rosing also explained the time it will take to determine successful, experimental drug compounds, prior to scientific trials, usually takes a long time. She explained strengthening the pc chips applied to review these substantial details suppliers could transform a yearslong course of action to a single that takes days.

The work to redesign personal computer chips and practice men and women to use them is in line with a federal work to boost laptop devices in the U.S. In August, President Joe Biden signed the Chips and Science Act, which allocates $52.7 billion for personal computer analysis, progress and manufacturing.

PRISM expects to create a far better computer chip in the near long run.

“The goal is to have this figured out by 5 yrs from now,” Rosing explained. “Hopefully in 5 a long time you will see some actual thrilling demonstrations.”

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