Scaling in Games and Virtual Worlds.

The article discusses Project Darkstar, a distributed infrastructure geared towards the market for online games and virtual-reality applications. Several issues are discussed. Unlike with many other computational environments, in online gaming the client is thick rather than thin. Latency demands a...

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Publicado en:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 51; no. 8; pp. 38 - 45
Autor principal:	Waldo, Jim
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Association for Computing Machinery Aug2008
Materias:	Distributed computing Massively multiplayer online role-playing games Microprocessors Virtual reality Computer network architectures Client/server computing
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