AIR: Next-generation Graphics in the Cloud

AIR：云中的下一代图形

• 批准号: 1127777
• 负责人: Adrien Treuille
• 金额: $ 14.97万
• 依托单位: Carnegie-Mellon University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-01 至 2013-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1127777&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: AIR; Next; generation; Graphics; Cloud

The proposal seeks to establish a means to do high performance 3-D multiviepoint gaming in the cloud as a foundation for a fundamental change in the gaming industry now dominated by specialized hardware local to each gamer. The approach uses PLASM (Parallel Lighting and Animation Subscription Model), an architecture for multi-viewpoint computer graphics designed for large-scale computer systems, to exploit graphics computations across multiple users drawing on cloud data center and computational resources. The proposed method has the potential to achieve orders-of-magnitude increases in graphics computation at constant hardware cost for multiple concurrent users. The PI intends to create a startup company around this technology which has the potential to be disruptive to the current gaming solutions. The license by usage time suggested seeks to obtain a market share of the current 3B playing hours per week of gamers. PLASM has the potential to be enabling to the migration of other important graphics applications to the cloud computing environment including real time interactive maps, e-design, visualization and medicine involving multiple users and collaborators. The effort is linked with Project Olympus at CMU school of computer science aimed at bridging research and commercialization.

该提案旨在建立一种在云中进行高性能3D多视点游戏的方法，作为游戏行业根本性变革的基础，该行业目前由每个游戏玩家本地的专用硬件主导。该方法使用PLASM（并行照明和动画订阅模型），这是一种为大型计算机系统设计的多视点计算机图形架构，用于在云数据中心和计算资源上绘制的多个用户之间利用图形计算。所提出的方法有可能实现订单的数量级增加图形计算在恒定的硬件成本为多个并发用户。PI打算围绕这项技术创建一家初创公司，该技术有可能颠覆当前的游戏解决方案。建议的使用时间许可证旨在获得目前每周30亿玩家游戏时间的市场份额。PLASM有可能使其他重要的图形应用程序迁移到云计算环境，包括真实的时间交互式地图，电子设计，可视化和医疗涉及多个用户和合作者。这项工作与CMU计算机科学学院的Olympus项目有关，旨在连接研究和商业化。