Peerium Application Platform

Peerium is building a highly scalable, serverless application platform. What will that mean for you? Whether a user or programmer, you'll find a more richly connected and less costly way to work and play.

 

Users of applications on the Peerium platform will enjoy running a new breed of internet-scale networked apps, as well as lower-cost alternatives to applications you already use. You will be able to work, play, and share with others in a secure, privacy-conscious network.

 

Developers of Peerium applications leverage our platform infrastructure that makes multi-user networked applications easier to write and cheaper to maintain than ever before. Apps can be distributed by users virally.

 

The first app on our platform is PVC, a voice chat program written in-house that is aimed at multiplayer online games. PVC is in beta testing and freely available. As we release developer tools and the suite of third-party apps grows, a wave of high-quality lower-cost applications will become available to you. We encourage you to download them, share with your friends, and let us know what you think!

 

Once PVC is out of beta testing and on the market, we will have a better idea of when developer tools will become publicly available. In the meantime, if you are interested in participating in a future beta test of our developer tools, please let us know via email at info@peerium.com. Be sure to include contact info, programming experience, and the kinds of apps you might like to write.


Developing on the Peerium Platform

The Peerium platform is for developers who want to create large-scale networked applications without paying the usual overhead of server costs. Developers who write Peerium platform apps will have free access to full documentation and libraries enabling them to create a wide range of programs. With our infrastructure, we also handle the fundamental yet tedious and error-prone processes that you need to get up and running. Some of these are summarized below:

  • Networking
    • Peer Discovery / firewall traversal
    • Security
    • Code mobility
  • Programming libraries
    • Data encoding/decoding
    • GUI widgets and OpenGL
    • Audio
  • Runtime system
    • Parallel garbage collection
    • Lightweight Concurrency
    • Transactional Memory
  • Cross-platform support
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • MacOSX

 

Peerium Platform Benefits

Rich, Multi-user applications: The Peerium platform provides access to graphically rich, interactive applications that easily engage other
users in your activities.

 

Zero Installation: New applications and services automatically install as needed, making applications easier to use, develop, and distribute.

 

Safety: All applications are automatically analyzed for safety and are run in a secure environment to protect our users and ensure high quality applications.

 

Real-time and direct communication: The Peerium platform searches for the most efficient connections to other clients, using direct communication links (with no intermediaries) whenever possible. Using Peerium applications, you can coordinate in real-time with hundreds of
other people.

 

Security: Not only are Peerium communications highly efficient, they are also secure. All communications are encrypted and verified using
industry-standard public-key cryptography: this keeps private the "what" of your communications. In addition, due to the way Peerium communications are handled, the "who" and the "when" of your communications are more secure.