Distributed Virtual Environments

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Distributed Virtual Environments
Bob Marcus
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Networked Virtual Environments Agenda

• 1000 Forterra Systems (Mike Macedonia) - Dealing
  with Zillionics            
• 1100 Colorado Technical University (Prof.
  Cynthia Calongne)  Research in Second Life
• 1200 Microsoft  (Scott Anderson)  ESP Platform
• 100 Lunch
• 200 Intel  (Mic Bowman)  Virtual Worlds Intel's
  Perspective
• 300 Cisco  (Randy Sisk)  How networked virtual
  environments are evolving the concept of "Place
• 400 NOAA (Eric Hackathorn) Virtual Worlds and
  their Impact on Government Communications
             
• 500 IBM (Sandra Kearny) Future of the 3D
  Internet Landscape

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Related Activities

• Federal Virtual World Consortium
  http//www.ndu.edu/irmc/fedconsortium.html
• Virtual Worlds Interoperability Forum
  http//vwinterop.wikidot.com/
• NCOIC Session on Utility Computing, Grids and
  Virtualization in December 2007
• Adaptable Computing Infrastructure
  (Distributed Virtual Environments) Federal
  Community of Practice being formed
• http//semanticommunity.wik.is/Adaptable_Computing
  _Infrastructure has more information and
  proceedings of NCOIC Session

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Distributed Virtual Environments
Layers
Virtualization enables access at any layer while
hiding the layers below
Examples
3D Virtual World Interface
Layers can be distributed transparently to the
layers above
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Some Virtual Environment Alternatives

• 1. Virtual World Simulations
• 2. Software as a Service
• 3. Utility Computing
• 4. Computational Grids
• 5. Transaction Grids
• 6. Data Grids
• 7. Storage Grid or Utility
• 8. Application Virtualization
• 9. Virtual Server
• 10. Virtual Machine Monitor (Hypervisor)
• 11. Virtual Appliance

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Virtual Environments as a Software Engineering
Discipline
Some Front-end Users of Shared Resources
User Interfaces
Applications
Guest OS
Appliances
Virtual Worlds, Utility Computing, Grid
Middleware, Virtual Machines, Hypervisors
Virtual Interface
Some Virtualization Enabling Layers
Real Interface
Some Back-end Shared Resources
Applications
Computers
Data Sources
Storage
Host OS