ShinmenTakezo said:
Orleans isn't a new way to cloud compute. It is a software framework MS developed to simplify the development of cloud services. Thats MS' own definition of Orleans. |
All cloud compute soltutions are based on software. Its a development platform for cloud computing which isn't something you can just easily dismiss. Its being able to leverage a language like C# to handle decrete portion of your code in the cloud and apply as many resources to process that call as needed. The difference in Orleans is that you have a full cloud development environment and framework to process pieces of your code.
Check this link out and the video how 343 is using it for their games
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/orleans/
At least now it appears you actually read up on it. Its a complete infrastructure to handle computation resources. Its MS implementation of cloud compute to solve a specific problem for game related code. The problem I had with your previous statements is that you dismissed something that MS has worked on for 3 years as if there is no significant development on the platform.