<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Apologies for hijacking this list, I thought some of you may be interested in this! :-)</div><div><br></div>I've just announced a new open source data grid project - Infinispan.<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><a href="http://infinispan.blogspot.com/2009/04/infinispan-start-of-new-era-in-open.html">http://infinispan.blogspot.com/2009/04/infinispan-start-of-new-era-in-open.html</a><br><br>Why is Infinispan sexy?<br><br>1. Massive heap - with consistent-hash based distribution, and a configurable amount of data redundancy, the collective memory of all nodes in a grid is exposed and addressable via a single data structure.<br><br>2. Extreme scalability - communications are based on peer-to-peer design, where nodes speak directly to one another. No single point of failure or bottleneck.<br><br>3. Very fast and lightweight core - using state of the art lock-free and synchronization-free algorithms and data structures wherever possible. Lighting fast even for LOCAL mode as a result!<br><br>4. Not Just for Java (PHP, Python, Ruby, C, etc.) - on the roadmap is a server module that speaks the memcached protocol. As such, in addition to being a distributed drop-in replacement for memached, we also leverage memcached's plethora of client libraries.<div><br></div><div>In addition to announcing the project, our second alpha is now available for download along with a nifty GUI demo:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="http://www.jboss.org/infinispan/downloads">http://www.jboss.org/infinispan/downloads</a><br><br></div><div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Give it a whirl, I'd love to hear your feedback!</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>--</div><div>Manik Surtani</div><div><a href="mailto:manik@jboss.org">manik@jboss.org</a></div><div>Lead, Infinispan</div><div>Lead, JBoss Cache</div><div><a href="http://www.infinispan.org">http://www.infinispan.org</a></div><div><a href="http://www.jbosscache.org">http://www.jbosscache.org</a></div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></body></html>