Minecraft signs partnership with UK supercomputing startup Hadean - Business Insider

"Hadean effectively makes a giant supercomputer out of the internet, so anything you build on top of Hadean is distributed by default," Hadean's CEO Craig Beddis told Business Insider."It allows you to access power as and when you need it, and what Hadean does is it allocates that power to the part of the game where you need it, and de-allocates the boundaries where you don't," said Beddis.Simply put, the Aether engine is able to dynamically decide whether a part of the game should or shouldn't exist depending on whether there's a player in it for the time being.Aether's capabilities made a splash in March last year when Hadean held a test showing it was capable of hosting 10,000 players simultaneously for a virtual space-battle in Eve Online.Beddis said the future of gaming will increasingly need services like the Aether Engine to facilitate huge, multiplayer games, driven by the success of battle royale-style games."Everyone's kind of got 'Fortnite' envy," Beddis said.