 
Sun Labs Virtual Tour
In active support of Sun's commitment to Open Source, Sun Labs researchers develop and contribute a wide variety of Open Source projects. Links to current Open Source projects are listed below. Additional projects will be added as they become available. Project CelesteProject Celeste is building a distributed, master-less, peer-to-peer, byzantine and fault-tolerant mutable data store made up of nodes in which no single node is responsible for an operation. Nodes are heterogeneous, they come and go arbitrarily, and they participate with other nodes by communicating through a peer-to-peer overlay network. This large scale, distributed storage systems is designed to work not only in dedicated data centers but in open and potentially hostile environments such as the Internet. Project DarkstarProject Darkstar is an easy to use, open source software infrastructure for the development and execution of horizontally scalable online games, virtual worlds, and social networking applications. Project Darkstar is designed to help developers and operators avoid a range of serious, yet typical, problems associated with online games today, including zone overloading, data corruption, and server under-utilization. In addtion, Project Darkstar will enable developers to support new dimensions of play such as evolvable virtual worlds and very large scale battlefields. Project Darkstar is freely available to all and is today advanced by the Project Darkstar community. Project FortressA new programming language designed for high-performance computing (HPC) with high programmability. It is intended to be a modern replacement for Fortran. the Fortress design has not been tied to legacy language syntax or semantics; all aspects of HPC language design have been rethought from the ground up. JVoice BridgeSoftware written in the JavaTM Programming Language that handles Voice over IP (VoIP) audio communication and mixing for tasks such as conference calls, voice chat, speech detection, and audio for 3D virtual environments. This versatile software adapts depending on remote user bandwidth connection, and supports a range of voice qualities from telephone to CD-quality. Sun Labs Lively KernelA new web programming environment which supports desktop-style applications with rich graphics and direct manipulation capabilities, but without the installation or upgrade hassles. Written entirely in the JavaScript programming language, a language supported by all the web browsers, the system can run in commercial web browsers without installation or any plug-in components and can function as an integrated development environment (IDE), making the whole system self-sufficient and able to improve and extend itself dynamically. Project MaxineProject Maxine Research VM, a virtual machine for the Java language, written entirely in Java, gives researchers a more productive way to explore new software technologies. The Maxine Research VM has the potential to greatly improve productivity - reducing implementation timeframes and maintenance costs, while giving researchers more flexibility to explore innovative technologies. Already well-integrated with powerful development tools (NetBeans right out of the box, IntelliJ, JBuilder, Eclipse), the Maxine VM will be fully compliant with the genuine Java Development Kit (JDK) within the next few months. Project Maxwell Assembler SystemThe Project Maxwell Assembler System (PMAS) is a collection of Java 6 packages which implement several assemblers, disassemblers, automated testing for both and an extensible framework with generators for all of the above. The currently covered instruction set architectures (ISAs) are SPARC, PowerPC, AMD64 and IA32. Open Media Commons
Sensor.Network
Project YggdrasilA Flexible Framework for Collecting Sensor Data. The Yggdrasil framework is designed to make it easier for scientists, researchers and other domain experts to create applications that collect sensor data over long periods of time. The framework also captures metadata (data about the data, e.g. units of measurement, normal range, sensor location) which is useful in analyzing, interpreting and cross-comparing data from multiple sources. |