GridGain will be presenting at Jazoon09 - International Conference on Java Technology at Zurich, Switzerland, on Tuesday June 23rd. If you are around the Zurich and attending the conference - come see our presentation.

As usual you can expect lively discussions in the areas of:

• Compute and Data Grids
• Cloud Computing
• MapReduce
• Scalability

And of course as always plenty of live coding that you won't see anywhere else - live grid application in 10 minutes from scratch!

Hope to see you there.

 

It turns out that guys at GC3D have been busy. I have recently found out that they have created a web-based 3D distributed rendering engine, using GridGain as a distributed computing framework.

Here is a pretty cool animation created with this framework - Meteor Shower by Marijn Swenne:



Here are some other interesting examples created with POV-Ray or MegaPOV.

The project allows you to submit POV files for processing from the website and provides some monitoring on the status of grid topology and active grid tasks while rendering happens in the background on the grid.

Technologies used involve GridGain as Grid Computing framework, POV-Ray / MegaPOV as 3D Rendering engine (ray-tracing), MEncoder to encode the video, x264 as video codec, JQuery as JavaScript library, Tomcat as web-server, etc...

It is really nice to see what amazing things you can achieve using the right tools at hand and distributed computing to speed things up.