An Architecture with Automatic Load Balancing and Distribution for Digital Games

Distributed computing is being used in several fields to solve many computation intensive problems. In digital games, it is used mainly in multi-player games, where the majority of the game logic is processed in a mainframe or cluster. Single player games could also use distributed computing to proc...

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Published in2010 Brazilian Symposium on Games and Digital Entertainment pp. 59 - 70
Main Authors Joselli, M, Zamith, M, Clua, E W G, Montenegro, A, Leal-Toledo, R C P, Valente, L, Feijó, B
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.11.2010
Subjects
automatic load balancing
Computational modeling
Computer architecture
Computers
Data models
distributed computing
game loop
Games
multi-player
Physics
Real time systems
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Summary:Distributed computing is being used in several fields to solve many computation intensive problems. In digital games, it is used mainly in multi-player games, where the majority of the game logic is processed in a mainframe or cluster. Single player games could also use distributed computing to process the game logic, devoting host processing to renderization, which is usually the task that digital games spend most of its processing time. By using distributed computing, games could need softer system requirements, since the game loop would be distributed. This paper presents a game loop that can be applied in both multi-player and single-player games, using automatic load balancing and distributing game logic computation among several computers.
ISBN:1612843913
9781612843919
ISSN:2159-6654
DOI:10.1109/SBGAMES.2010.19