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Information Technology News AMD gives developers a Second Life | AMD gives developers a Second Life |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Monday, 19 February 2007 | |
      
AMD Dev Central Island is located within the Second Life Developer Archipelago, a series of interconnected virtual "islands" dedicated to the Second Life developer community at large. The AMD Dev Central Pavilion includes the AMD Auditorium, a formal place for tech chat-style events and the AMD Display Hall, a virtual exhibition hall featuring interactive booths, scripted banners, informal gathering places and streaming videos. “The Second Life metaverse is a gathering place for both new and established developers,” said Paul Nolte, AMD project manager and contributing builder for the AMD Developer Central Second Life Pavilion. “Through the interactive virtual experience at the pavilion, we hope to provide developers with an outlet to learn and grow, such as helping them to optimize native code for multi-threaded applications.” As a lure for developers, AMD will host a three-month treasure hunt contest with interactive Linden scripting language and open source programming challenges. Developers who successfully complete the challenges in the Pavilion will be entered into a prize drawing for a highly configured Dell Dimension E521 system, including a dual-core AMD Athlon 64 X2 processor, 4GB DDR2 SDRAM, 320GB Serial ATA Hard Drive, and 20-inch widescreen digital flat panel monitor. "The treasure hunt and future developer challenges provide a creative outlet for developers to express their unique abilities," said AMD's Nolte.{moscomment} |
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