XPU: A Distributed Architecture for Metaverses
Francis Chang, C. Mic Bowman, Wu‐chi Feng · PDXScholar (Portland State University) · 2010
A significant problem of designing 3D virtual worlds (such as metaverses) is developing a scalable architecture that can manage millions of simultaneous users in an interactive 3D environment. This paper presents XPU (Extremely Partitioned Universe), a hierarchical client-server architecture for developing highly scalable metaverses. This design addresses the problem of dynamically partitioning the world to manage network and computing resources.