Pithos is a reliable, responsive, secure, fair and scalable distributed storage system, ideally suited to P2P MMVEs (peer-to-peer massively multi-user virtual environments). The Pithos simulation model is implemented in Oversim, which runs on the OMNeT++ network simulator.

Pithos represents the implementation work of the PhD of John Sebastian Gilmore under Dr. Herman Engelbrecht at the Stellenbosch University’s MIH Media lab.