Game cloud design with virtualized CPU/GPU servers and initial performance results

ScienceCloud '12 - 3rd Workshop on Scientific Cloud Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 23-30

  Zhao, Zhou ^a   Hwang, Kai ^a   Villeta, Jose ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Game benchmarking; Game cloud; Remote rendering; Scientific clouds; Virtual machines; Visualization

Indexed keywords

FRAME RATE; HIGH QUALITY; INTERACTIVE GAMING; LOCAL COMPUTER; PERFORMANCE GAIN; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; PRELIMINARY PERFORMANCE RESULTS; REMOTE RENDERING; TABLET COMPUTER; THIN CLIENTS; VIDEO GAME; VIRTUAL MACHINES;

CLOUD COMPUTING; FLOW VISUALIZATION; MOBILE DEVICES; QUALITY OF SERVICE; VISUALIZATION;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84863894546     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2287036.2287042     Document Type: Conference Paper

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