Activities

Our current activities include:

On Demand Service Platform for Online Games

First-of-a-Kind project with Almaden Research Center and IBM Digital Media Sector

 

Customer engagements

Supporting our colleagues in Sales and Distribution with technology presentations

 

New technology development

We are working on a number of new technologies for online games including serverless game architectures, general performance monitoring for games, and client characterization for online games.

On Demand Service Platform for Online Games

Deploying a large, dedicated server infrastructure to support a few game titles is a risky and expensive approach that does not make the best use of available resources. In this project, we are developing a shared, on-demand service platform, along with a set of communications and data management services, for hosting on-line games based on grid technology.

The FOAK service platform aims to help game publishers move from a dedicated, inflexible infrastructure with specialized deployments for various game functions, to a shared, virtualized, on-demand infrastructure that supports many different games and functions.

Platform functionality

• Server and network provisioning and management
• Game partitioning and migration
• Player, publisher, and system administrator services