1 @larGe : Massivizing Online Games using Cloud Computing Alexandru Iosup Parallel and Distributed...

1

@larGe: Massivizing Online Games

using Cloud Computing

Alexandru IosupParallel and Distributed Systems Group,

Delft University of Technology,The Netherlands

VENI – @larGe: Massivizing Online Games using Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing


Joe’s Small Online Gaming Studio

Variability is Joe’s Variability is Joe’s unsolvedunsolved problem problem

Predictor +

IT Source ($)

Dynamic@90 days

Own (10M$/iter)

Dynamic@minute

s

Cloud(1$-1M$)

Static Own (100M$)Year

# o

f U

sers Exponential

growth

+

+

+


My research:

The Scientific Challenge

Devise a software and hardware architecture that can tolerate high variability without service degradation, just by adding more resources. • Grow and shrink infrastructure automatically• Replace faulty parts automatically• Automation is efficient• One support engineer regardless of scale• I’ve tackled similar problems for grids and P2P systems


Variability is one of the Variability is one of the fewfew unsolvedunsolved problems in Computer Scienceproblems in Computer Science

Variability = Player + Non-Player

Interaction

?

?

?


Research Challenge

New IT Fabric = Cloud + New Variability-Aware Methods

?


Research Challenge

What if Joe is not into Gaming?

e-Science

e-Collaboratione-Architecture


VENI – @larGe: Massivizing Online Games using Cloud Computing 8

Extra Slides

Why Am I the Person to Work on This?

Why Should the Netherlands Fund This?• Gaming is entertainment branch with highest

revenue

Source: The Economist, Benchmarking IT industry competitiveness 2009 http://portal.bsa.org/2009eiu/study/2009_eiu_global.pdf

Human Capital:• NL is 27th +“A longer-term

challenge for some European countries is encouraging more graduates to choose science-related subjects.”but


Sources: MMOGChart, own research. Sources: ESA, MPAA, RIAA.

Gaming, the New World

• Market: 7BN$/year • 250,000,000+ players • 10,000+ online games• Success kills small

companies• Only big companies can

join market (1BN+)

Exponential growth

Stop innovating and Stop innovating and the growth the growth stopsstops tomorrow! tomorrow!


MSG, MMOG, MMO, …

1. Virtual world

+

2. Game dataPlayer activity, stats, and (social) relationships

Romeo and Juliet

Massivized Online Games =

online games with massive numbers of players (100K+), for which the social interaction improves the experience

“Data deluge” = New variability source

up to 40% revenue

up to 40% operation costs

Old variability source

Is Lack of Data a Risk? (Reviewer #2)Situation world-wide

• “Unfortunately, I am not able to release any of the data. Sony still considers it proprietary, and we can't control that.” – Sony “releases” EverQuest data

• “Unfortunately, CCP won't allow me to make their data publicly available for EVE Online.” – CCP “releases” EVE Online data

My situation: NO Risk• Spent three years collecting data for gaming and clouds

• KGS, OpenTTD, RuneScape, WoW, AmazonWS, GoogleAE, RightScale

• Prior to this, spent five years collecting data for grids, P2P, general

The Grid Workloads Archive• 6 traces online, over 20 in total• Toolset for analysis/statistical modeling

Why Near-Real-Time Gaming Analytics?(Reviewer #2)Situation world-wide

• More detailed/faster analysis is constant concern• “Data deluge” in E-Science etc.• TNO thinks it’s big

Online Gaming• Three years ago gaming analytics was not a market• Last year Zynga made ~700M$, mainly from it• Playtomic, Kontangent, Mochibot: using own infrastructure,

reduced refresh time from weeks to hours (minutes, early 2011)

• Zillians thinks it’s big

1 @larGe : Massivizing Online Games using Cloud Computing Alexandru Iosup Parallel and Distributed...

Documents

Transcript of 1 @larGe : Massivizing Online Games using Cloud Computing Alexandru Iosup Parallel and Distributed...