Threading Successes of Popular PC Games and Engines

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Threading Successes of Popular PC Games and
Engines
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What did we cover?

• Thread for performance
• Supreme Commander
• Gamebryo Element Engine
• Thread for features
• Hellgate London
• Intels n-core experiment
• Use threaded middleware
• Allegorithmics Substance

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What should I avoid?

• Dont
• Get seduced by terminology
• Use complexity rather than concurrency as your
  measure of success
• Design for specific numbers of cores, or rely
  upon symmetry of cores
• Freak out nobody has cracked the problem yet and
  forgotten to tell you

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What should I do?

• Do
• Use threaded middleware to ease your design
  efforts
• Use a multi-threaded memory management scheme
• Put task parallel and data parallel tasks into
  the same thread pool
• Tell us about your progress and any problems
  youre having

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Some final thoughts...

• Thank you for attending todays tutorial!
• Special thanks to
• Stephen Chenney of Emergent Game Technologies
• Charles Bauchet of Allegorithmic
• Gas Powered Games
• Flagship Studios
• Paul and Brad will be at the Intel booth/lounge
  throughout the show come talk to us!

paul.lindberg_at_intel.com bradley.j.werth_at_intel.com
www.intel.com/software/graphics
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