Powow is an open-source TCP packets exchange mesh. It allows many TCP clients to connect to a "Powow cloud" (several instances of Powow), to exchange data. Powow is a TCP socket server like Palabre or Oregano.

Features

  • Scalable TCP cloud
  • No single point of failure, with load balancing
  • Distributed, in-memory users and lobbies database
  • Binary data packets, with small overhead
  • Routing
  • Stackless Python
  • Flash / python or ... clients

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Categories

Networking, Distributed Computing, Multiplayer, Load Balancers

License

GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)

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Additional Project Details

Intended Audience

Developers, Information Technology, Science/Research

User Interface

GTK+, Non-interactive (Daemon)

Programming Language

ActionScript, Python

Database Environment

SQLite

Related Categories

Python Networking Software, Python Distributed Computing Software, Python Multiplayer Game, Python Load Balancers, ActionScript Networking Software, ActionScript Distributed Computing Software, ActionScript Multiplayer Game, ActionScript Load Balancers

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2010-10-31
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