Data center architecture for remote graphics rendering

A configurable data center architecture for remote rendering, wherein the data center architecture is configured to:

• perform GPU processing using one or more graphics processors;
• perform CPU processing using one or more hardware processors;
• and
• wherein the configurable data center architecture may be selectively configured to:
• independently add one or more graphics processors to provide GPU processing for servicing a plurality of clients interacting with the data center;
• or
• independently add one or more hardware processors to provide CPU processing for a servicing the plurality of clients interacting with the data center.

In a data center architecture for remote rendering comprising:

• a hardware processor;
• a memory;
• a storage device;
• a graphics processor;
• a virtual machine monitor functionally connected to the hardware processor, memory, and storage device;
• one or more virtual machine game servers functionally connected to the virtual machine monitor, each virtual machine game server comprising:
• a virtual processor;
• a virtual memory;
• a virtual storage;
• a virtual operating system;
• a game binary executing under the control of the virtual operating system;
• a rendering server functionally connected to the graphics processor, the rendering server comprising:
• an operating system;
• one or more renderers;
• a method comprising the following steps:
• receiving input from a client at a virtual machine game server of the one or more virtual machine game servers;
• generating a sequence of game binary instructions with the game binary of the virtual machine game server in accordance with the received input;
• executing the sequence of game binary instructions generated by the game binary with the virtual processor of the virtual machine game server to generate a set of graphics command data;
• transmitting the set of graphics command data over a network by the virtual machine game server;
• receiving the set of graphics command data by a renderer of the rendering server corresponding to the virtual machine game server;
• rendering one or more images from the set of graphics command data by the renderer;
• and
• transmitting the one or more images to the client.