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http://dx.doi.org/10.7583/JKGS.2012.12.4.13

A 2-Tier Server Architecture for Real-time Multiple Rendering  

Lim, Choong-Gyoo (Dept. of Multimedia System Engineering, Sungkonghoe University)
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Journal of Korea Game Society / v.12, no.4, 2012 , pp. 13-22 More about this Journal
Abstract
The wide-spread use of the broadband Internet service makes the cloud computing-based gaming service possible. A game program is executed on a cloud node and its live image is fed into a remote user's display device via video streaming. The user's input is immediately transmitted and applied to the game. The minimization of the time to process remote user's input and transmit the live image back to the user and thus satisfying the requirement of instant responsiveness for gaming makes it possible. However, the cost to build its servers can be very expensive to provide high quality 3D games because a general purpose graphics system that cloud nodes are likely to have for the service supports a single 3D application at a time. Thus, the server must have a technology of 'realtime multiple rendering' to execute multiple 3D games simultaneously. This paper proposes a new architecture of 2-tier servers of clouds nodes of which one group executes multiple games and the other produces game's live images. It also performs a few experimentations to prove the feasibility of the new architecture.
Keywords
+cloud computing; remote gaming; live streaming; multiple rendering;
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