Modern video games are among the most comp lex real-time parallel systems in consumer computing\, combining SIMD\, MI MD\, and pipeline parallelism within a typical frame budget of 16.6ms on h eterogeneous hardware. This talk begins with a brief look at how the expon ential growth of output complexity across console generations - in graphic s\, audio\, and CPU throughput - drove the transition from serial to massi vely parallel architectures. We then examine the domain-specific paralleli sm of the GPU and contrast its data-parallel strengths with gameplay logic \, where circular dependencies\, shared mutable state\, and unpredictable memory access patterns pose fundamental challenges to parallelization. Usi ng Unreal Engine as a practical case study\, we explore the parallelizatio n models and synchronization techniques a modern game engine employs to or chestrate sequential and parallel workloads across CPU threads and GPU und er real-time constraints.
Oliver Franzke is a Principal Engineer at Double Fine Productions (Xbox Game Studios) with nearly 25 years of profe ssional experience in the games industry. Across more than 20 shipped titl es at studios including LucasArts\, Sony\, and Double Fine\, he has worked on graphics\, engine systems\, and tools - from the Monkey Island Special Editions to Broken Age\, for which he was Lead Programmer. Oliver holds a Diplom in Media Computer Science from TU Dresden\, graduating with the h ighest distinction and receiving the Lohrmann Medal for outstanding academ ic achievement.
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