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Project Darkstar - Sun Game Server Talk and SIGOS

On March 29th I gave my second tech talk as Student Ambassador at Purdue University. Just as with the ZFS tech talk, this one was very well received. This time, I gave a talk over Project Darkstar and the Sun Game Server. Although this time, 18 people attended, it was still a great tech talk.

For those of you who are not aware. Project Darkstar is a project for the Sun Game Server. SGS is an open source game server which handles communication and threads/processes. To the programmer using SGS, all game development is synchronous, single-threaded, and event driven. This is a game server for which to place any type of game over. The SGS is also scalable. It has 4 tiers (think MVC with a server view and a client view).

At Purdue's local ACM Chapter we are currently starting a SIG called SIGOS (Open Solaris SIG). Although the primary intent of this SIG is driver development, we will be experimenting with other technologies such as SGS.

SIGOS at Purdue University: Here

Posted at 01:25AM Mar 30, 2007 by jmicklos in Sun  |  Comments[1]