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How exactly is this distributed? The readme isn't really useful...

diggan 9y ago
I'm not a .Net developer but: > MineCase is a cross-platform, distributed Minecraft server application developed using .NET Core that uses the Orleans framework. Orleans seems to be what makes this distributed I think, following the trail leads me to: https://dotnet.github.io/orleans/ https://dotnet.github.io/orleans/ > Orleans is a framework that provides a straightforward approach to building distributed high-scale computing applications, without the need to learn and apply complex concurrency or other scaling patterns. It was created by Microsoft Research and designed for use in the cloud.
- lwansbrough 9y ago
  I can elaborate a little further having extensive experience with Orleans: - Various parts of this Minecraft server have been built as Grains - Grains are basically class instances which are activated (instantiated) somewhere in a network - Orleans has a very clean interface which allows one to use a class instance in regular code as though the instance were stored in local memory. In reality, the class instance may be instantiated on a different machine in the cluster. - Orleans clusters are generally controlled/private, though I suppose there's nothing stopping someone from building an open network of Orleans silos. That means the distributed aspect of this project is in regards to how the code behaves within a datacenter, in most cases. This seems to be an exploration of how to build game infrastructure using Orleans. Microsoft has done this with the Halo franchise in their most recent games (Halo 4 + Halo 5.) Seems to work pretty well. On a fast network you can operate on distributed instances of just about anything and have sub-millisecond response times. Mind you, that'll depend greatly on what work is being done.
- zamalek 9y ago
  Think Akka if you're familiar with Java. It's not a port, but both are actor frameworks.
JasonWang1027 9y ago
The readme doesn't show these. It needs to be improved.

I'm not a .Net developer but: > MineCase is a cross-platform, distributed Minecraft server application developed using .NET Core that uses the Orleans framework. Orleans seems to be what makes this distributed I think, following the trail leads me to: https://dotnet.github.io/orleans/ https://dotnet.github.io/orleans/ > Orleans is a framework that provides a straightforward approach to building distributed high-scale computing applications, without the need to learn and apply complex concurrency or other scaling patterns. It was created by Microsoft Research and designed for use in the cloud.

lwansbrough 9y ago
I can elaborate a little further having extensive experience with Orleans: - Various parts of this Minecraft server have been built as Grains - Grains are basically class instances which are activated (instantiated) somewhere in a network - Orleans has a very clean interface which allows one to use a class instance in regular code as though the instance were stored in local memory. In reality, the class instance may be instantiated on a different machine in the cluster. - Orleans clusters are generally controlled/private, though I suppose there's nothing stopping someone from building an open network of Orleans silos. That means the distributed aspect of this project is in regards to how the code behaves within a datacenter, in most cases. This seems to be an exploration of how to build game infrastructure using Orleans. Microsoft has done this with the Halo franchise in their most recent games (Halo 4 + Halo 5.) Seems to work pretty well. On a fast network you can operate on distributed instances of just about anything and have sub-millisecond response times. Mind you, that'll depend greatly on what work is being done.
zamalek 9y ago
Think Akka if you're familiar with Java. It's not a port, but both are actor frameworks.

JasonWang1027 9y ago

The readme doesn't show these. It needs to be improved.