Google Inc.

Sanjeet Singh Mehat

Michael H Waychison

Joseph S Beda, Iii

Evan K Anderson

Andrew John Thornton

Eric Northup

Alan Merzon

Alexander Mohr

Robert H Earhart, Iii

Cory Todd Maccarrone

David T McWherter

Erin Hoffman-John

Frank Berreth

Bradley Richard McKee

Iii Joseph S Beda

Eric R Northup

Cory T Maccarrone

A game platform manages, on behalf of a game program, platform nodes used to execute game operations, such as physics operations, artificial intelligence operations, and player messaging operations. Via the game platform, the game program can implement relatively sophisticated and complex game operations. The game platform can implement each game operation at a corresponding platform node, wherein the platform node employs associated hardware to execute the game operation. The game platform can distribute the platform nodes at different sets of hardware resources, such as different servers, different hardware accelerators, and the like, and thereby implement more sophisticated game operations than can be implemented by the game program directly. The game platform communicates data between the game program and the platform nodes using a zero-copy transfer technique, thereby transferring data with relatively little latency.

Game platform using zero-copy data transfer

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving one or more respective socket commands from a virtual machine socket core, the one or more respective socket commands being associated with a respective socket destination address; determining, based on the one or more respective socket commands and the respective socket destination address, whether to communicate data associated with the one or more respective socket commands to a host virtual socket device; and in response to determining to communicate the data associated with the one or more respective socket commands to the host virtual socket device, converting the socket destination address to a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) address and communicating the data associated with the one or more respective socket commands and the URI address between the host virtual socket device.

Virtual machine networking

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for service bridges. In one aspect, a method includes a host operating system performs operations comprising: receiving, using one or more service bridges that execute in the host operating system, a plurality of requests from the one or more virtual machines, wherein each service bridge is associated with a different virtual machine of the one or more virtual machines, and wherein each request is a request to interface with one or more external services; modifying, using a respective service bridge, each request to be processed by the one or more external services; and providing each modified request from the respective service bridge to the one or more external services, where the respective service bridge communicates with the one or more external services over a network.

Service bridges

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for measuring virtual machine metrics. In one aspect, a method includes initializing a virtual machine, the virtual machine being associated with virtual hardware comprising a virtual metrics device, the virtual metrics device being configured to report values of a virtual machine metric that measures the performance of the virtual machine; receiving data identifying the virtual machine metric and a virtual machine memory address to which the virtual machine writes values of the virtual machine metric; reading one or more values of the virtual machine metric from the virtual machine memory address; and generating a report based on the one or more metric values.

Measuring virtual machine metrics

Techniques and systems for managed boot are described. A described technique includes creating, at a server system, a boot image based on one or more user-specified parameters associated with virtual machine booting, providing a first virtual drive that includes the boot image, booting a virtual machine using the boot image on the first virtual drive, and providing a second virtual drive to the virtual machine, where the virtual machine mounts the second virtual drive as a root file system.

Managed boot in a cloud system

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Seattle, WA, United States of America

Sanjeet Singh Mehat