1. Applications of the Globus Toolkit Butterfly Grid (http://www.butterfly.net/) Applications of the Globus Toolkit Butterfly Grid (http://www.butterfly.net/) The first commercial computing grid for the video game industryhttp://www.butterfly.net/

2. 2 Virtual Organization Members Content Providers Service Providers Gamers

3. 3 Components ► The Object Management System (OMS) ► The Network Protocol Stack (NPS) ► Gateway Servers ► Daemon Controllers ► Game Servers ► Datastore ► Grid Services ► Tools and Extras

4. 4 Multi-tiered, Fully-distributed “ Game OS ” The Butterfly Grid Client Library Gateway Server Daemon Controller Game Server Open Grid Service Infrastructure Gamer Client software

5. 5 ► Server: IBM eSeries* blade server  Gateway server  Daemon Server  Game server ► OS: Red Hat Linux ► Database Server: DB2 ► Application Server: IBM WebShpere ► Software: ► Software: Butterfly Grid MMOG (Massively Multiplayer Online Game) platform

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8. 8 Butterfly Grid diagram

9. 9 Globus ► Resource Management  GRAM  GASS ► Information Services  MDS ► Data Management

10. 10 Globus ► ► Globus Toolkit utilities run on all servers within the Butterfly Grid. ► ► Security, authorization, authentication, file transfer, access to secondary storage, Web services bindings, metacomputing directory service. ► ► Allow to manage all these blades and other resources that can be made available to the Grid. ► ► To monitor servers and distributes the processing needs of more popular games and populated areas to idle computing resources within the data center.

11. 11 Globus ► ► Gamers can now play with anybody, anywhere, anytime without being bound to any particular client platform or server. ► ► The ability to seamlessly migrate between servers marks the Grid as an example of truly autonomic computing — and most differentiates it from the standard “ singleserver ” online gaming configuration.