Apr
Project Caroline, Other Research Projects Highlighted During 2008 Sun Labs Open House
Sun Labs Open House last week focused on the many and varied projects the research teams at Sun are working on. One of these is the research platform Project Caroline. Richard Zippel described this team project, of which he is a part, as:
“…a really cool platform that allows you to programmatically control all of the infrastructure resources you might need in building a horizontally scaled system. You can allocate and configure databases, file systems, private networks (VLAN’s), load balancers, and a lot more, all dynamically, which makes it easy to flex the resources your application uses up and down as required.”
External partners can test out a Project Caroline grid and internal Sun users can try an internal grid that is available, Zippel notes.
Find out more about his project at its website and be sure to check out the article “A Platform… as a Service.”
Other research projects highlighted during the 2008 Sun Labs Open House include:
- Project Fortress - Led by the Sun Labs Programming Language Research Group, Fortress is a new programming language designed for high-performance computing (HPC) designed to deliver high programmer productivity. Project Fortress Version 1.0 was released March 31, 2008, as open source and is available at http://projectfortress.sun.com/Projects/Community/
- Project Darkstar - A Java technology-based software infrastructure to simplify the development and operation of massively scalable online games, virtual worlds, and social networking applications. Project Darkstar is open source and is available at http://www.projectdarkstar.com/
- Project Sun SPOT - An experimental platform for developing wireless sensor, robotics and swarm intelligence applications entirely in Java technology. The entire system, including hardware, operating system Java Virtual Machine, drivers and applications is available as Open Source on Java.net. Sun SPOT Developer Kit available at http://www.sunspotworld.com/
- Project Wonderland - A toolkit for building 3D virtual worlds, powered by Project Darkstar, is the basis for research into collaborative work and education environments. More information at https://lg3d-wonderland.dev.java.net/
