According to CrunchGear OnLive is a "cloud gaming service": http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/03/24/can-onlives-cloud-gaming-service-threaten-traditional-consoles/

According to CrunchGear OnLive is a "cloud gaming service": http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/03/24/can-onlives-cloud-gaming-service-threaten-traditional-consoles/ http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/03/24/can-onlives-cloud-gamin... One user per core would probably work fine, if you leave one core for the operating system. Of course you will need a lot of memory and probably a video card per user as well. Edit: Just checked out the Wikipedia entry and it looks like they're doing something like that and with virtualization. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnLive#Architecture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnLive#Architecture