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Would it be reasonable to suggest that we could help improve the
experience for those first dipping their toe in the Croquet waters by
providing a runnable Croquet image in Amazon's EC2?
* Provide a pre-configured pubic Amazon AMI (always improving and
stable for a good first experience)
* Amazon's virtual server (acting as peer) would communicate
(securely ?) only the 3D models, texture, and keyboard/mouse
interactions with interested person's browser by already present
plug-in (Java / Flash / etc.)
* Servers (acting as peers) would be working in Amazon's LAN, so
WAN & firewall tunneling is not needed.
* No bandwidth expense/cost between servers so massive numbers of
message passing between servers (acting as peer) is free
* Minimal latency between servers on Amazon's LAN
* Servers might automatically be located closer to interested
person's local PC
* SMS message queues are available if needed
* Interested person only needs to have the server running while
they are testing
* If they already have an Amazon account, it's almost an impulse
test (no changes to local PC) or security concerns.
* Pre-configered AMI might be faster to load than it would take to
download the Croquet client software
* Smalltalk images could be saved to S3 (and shared)
* More servers could demonstrate Croquet's scaling capabilities
(and reliably and repeatably test them)
* Amazon's AMI provides a stable, consistent hardware
configuration as a stable platform target
* Different AMI's could be targeted to interested people who have
different motivations (teacher, student, simulator, developer, gamer,
corporate, academic researcher, etc.)
* Distributing large Croquet Smalltalk images with large amounts
of textures and 3D models would not cost the host or the interested
person in bandwidth charges
* Consolidating hosts of large Croquet Smalltalk images with large
amounts of textures and 3D models could minimize storage costs which
could also be shared among "members"
* any other ideas?
Cheers,
Darius
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