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Java-Centric Grid Computing: Ibis 1.0 Released

Posted by michael on from the run-everywhere dept.

rvannieuwpoort writes "Ibis 1.0 has been released. Ibis is a flexible and efficient Java-based programming environment for Grid computing. Ibis improves Java's serialization and RMI performance up to a factor of 10. It also extends Java with a range of communication paradigms, including group communication, divide-and-conquer and collective communication. An additional nice feature of Ibis is that it can communicate through firewalls, without opening ports, using TCP. Ibis is free software (BSD-style license). It runs on any platform that has a Java 1.4 or higher JVM."

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  1. Included in Sun Java? by 0x461FAB0BD7D2 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Could this ever be included in the Sun's Java SDK or JRE/JVM?

    It uses a BSD-style license, so it should be fine. Schwartz and McNealy claim to be open-source friendly. And given that it improves development for Java, would Sun consider adding it to their Java, in some form? This would definitely put it over .NET, IMO.

    1. Re:Included in Sun Java? by shodson · · Score: 3, Informative

      No, Sun has its own grid computing product that I'm sure it would rather support.

  2. Sample code? by Saiyine · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They should include in the web some sort of example of a working distributed program, maybe something so simple as a "Hello world!" with every node writing a single chat in a array...

    Just an idea!

    As a developer I just love working examples.

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