Scalify

About

Scalify offers Badumna, a platform enabling scalable 3D virtual worlds by shifting processing to end-user nodes, with congestion-aware traffic balancing and distributed validation to reduce cheating.

Mission

Scalify commercializes Badumna, a platform developed over four years at NICTA's Victoria Research Laboratory to enable scalable applications for 3D-generated virtual worlds. Badumna shifts much of the processing to end-user nodes rather than relying on centralized server clusters or parallel shard worlds. Key features include congestion-aware traffic balancing to end-user nodes and distributed validation to reduce cheating, with the aim that added users increase available resources and enable near-infinite scalability. Scalify released the first version of Badumna last year and the product is already being used to power virtual worlds in the US, EU and Asia. Santosh Kulkarni, who led Badumna's development at NICTA, moved to Scalify as CTO; the company plans to expand sales, marketing and supported development platforms. Starfish Ventures has injected $2 million to help scale growth and functionality, and NICTA's CEO noted potential non-gaming uses such as tele-health for bandwidth-intensive datasets.

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