Parallelization and performance of interactive multiplayer game servers

Proceedings - International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2004 (Abstracts and CD-ROM)

Volumn 18, Issue , 2004, Pages 1017-1026

  Abdelkhalek, Ahmed ^a   Bilas, Angelos ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS; SIMULATORS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

MULTIPLAYER GAME SERVERS; PARALLELIZATION; SYNCHRONIZATION POINTS;

SERVERS;

EID: 12444314012     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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