Efficient management of data center resources for massively multiplayer online games

2008 SC - International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Nae, Vlad ^a   Iosup, Alexandru ^b   Podlipnig, Stefan ^a   Prodan, Radu ^a   Epema, Dick ^b   Fahringer, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING RESOURCE; DATA CENTERS; DYNAMIC PROVISIONING; DYNAMIC RESOURCE PROVISIONING; INDUSTRY PRACTICES; INTERACTIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; MASSIVELY MULTI-PLAYER ONLINE GAMES; NOVEL NEURAL NETWORK; RESOURCE DEMANDS; RESOURCE PROVISIONING; TRACE-BASED SIMULATION; WORK-LOAD MODELS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SIMULATORS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 70449479165     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SC.2008.5213940     Document Type: Conference Paper

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