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Sun Labs Open House Highlights Community Contribution to Research Projects

HPC Wire (04/10/08)

Sun Microsystems Laboratories' recent open house included demonstrations of the lab's current research projects, including Project Wonderland, a toolkit for building 3D virtual worlds, and Project Fortress, a new high-performance computing programming language. "Sun Labs has delivered measurable and results-oriented innovation through its history and by increasingly adding collaboration to our innovation, we're taking the our research projects even further," says Sun Labs director Bob Sproull. "Our open-sourced prototypes are effectively building communities of research partners, inviting participation and disruptive thinking from developers outside of Sun Labs and the broader Sun community." Other research projects underway at Sun include Project Darkstar, a Java-based software infrastructure platform designed to simplify the development and operation of massively scalable online games, virtual worlds, and social networking applications; and Project Caroline, which includes research into technologies for rapid and efficient development and delivery of dynamically scalable Internet-based services. Other projects include Project Sun SPOT (Small Programmable Object Technology), a Java-based platform for developing wireless sensor, robotics, and swarm intelligence applications.

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