Polka: A Differentiated Deployment System for Online and Streamed Games, Meta-verses, and Modifiable Virtual Environments

Online gaming is the world’s largest entertainment industry by revenue, and supports over 3 billion consumers worldwide. Many of the world’s most popular online games must manage millions of concurrent players through a single unified service. Achieving performant and scalable online games is challenging. Online games are subject to stringent...

Evaluating and Improving Large-Scale Machine Learning Frameworks

Given the increasing popularity of Machine Learning, and the ever increasing need to solve larger and more complex learning challenges, it is unsurprising that numerous distributed learning strategies have been brought forward in recent years, along with many large scale Machine Learning frameworks. It is however unclear how well these...

Scaling Distributed Virtual Environments using Socially Aware Load Partitioning and Interest Management

Massively Multiplayer Online Games are played by millions of people from around the world who play together in large virtual environments. With sometimes even a million gamers playing the same game, the load on the virtual environments they play in needs to be distributed between servers to deal with this many players. Several techniques have...