Correction - Abel Gordon's talk (the one after Alexandru Iosup's) will be two week after (on June 17th) Sorry for the mixup.
On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 8:35 PM, Eli Billauer <e...@billauer.co.il> wrote: > On Monday, June 3rd at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear a talk by > Alexandru Iosup: > > Massivizing OpenTTD: Distributed Computing Challenges and Quality Time > > Abstract > > Hundreds of online games entertain over 250,000,000 online gamers in a > maturing global market of over 30 billion Euros. A popular game genre is > Real Time Strategy (RTS), which includes games such as StarCraft II (one of > the best-selling games of 2010). Although Real-Time Strategy (RTS) games > already entertain hundreds of millions of online players, the current games > do not scale. For example, even popular RTS games such as the StarCraft > series support in the same game instance only up to 16 players and up to > only 3-400 moving units. We present the rationale for and the design of a > massively multiplayer online RTS (MMORTS) game, OpenTTD@large.OpenTTD@largeis > a derivative work from the popular open-source game OpenTTD, which in > turn has derived from the economic simulator Transport Tycoon Deluxe. > > We begin by analyzing the current technical and design limitations of > OpenTTD--although this game can service its target audience of 8-16 online > players very well, scaling it to even hundreds of players is currently not > possible. > > We further present an approach to co-scale the platform and the design of > OpenTTD, towards the OpenTTD@large MMORTS platform. We present here the > new game design and three elements of our approach: a new approach for > trading-off consistency for latency to support the future scalable game > world, a game analytics back-end to support the future social component of > the game design, and a mobile offloading system to support the future > mobile component of the game platform. > > (Warning: OpenTTD@large is ongoing work, and has many research and > technical unknowns.) > > The talk will be given in English. > > TEAM: Alexandru Iosup (Project Lead/Pricipal Investigator), Otto Visser > (Lead Dev/Lead Valorization), Siqi Shen (Lead Researcher), Yong Guo (Lead > Researcher), Alexandru Olteanu (Lead Researcher), Marcin Biczak (Lead > Dev/Researcher), Lucas van Dijk (Dev) > > ==============================**==============================**===== > > We meet in Taub building, room 6. For instructions see: > http://www.haifux.org/where.**html <http://www.haifux.org/where.html> > > Attendance is free, and you are all invited! > > ==============================**==============================**====== > Future lectures: > > NOTE: The next meeting is just a week away! > > 10/06/13 ELVIS -- Efficient and Scalable Paravirtual I/O System: > Abel Gordon > > ==============================**==============================**====== > > We are always interested in hearing your talks and ideas. If you wish to > give a talk, hold a discussion, or just plan some event haifux might be > interested in, please contact us at webmas...@haifux.org > > -- > Web: http://www.billauer.co.il > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Linux-il mailing list > linux...@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/**mailman/listinfo/linux-il<http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il> > -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org
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