[Opensim-dev] Presenting unga: UGAIM grid servers with PHP

[Jeroen van Veen]

Impalah,

How does unga compare to simian? Does it use it's own connectors? About 
writing for django/tornado: i'm currently writing a webfrontend(hwios, 
http://forge.opensimulator.org/gf/project/hwios/) with python/django and 
twisted(comparable to tornado), and have done alot of basic stuff so far. I was 
wondering if it would be possible to combine some of the work being done by 
several teams(unga/simian/hwios), so we prevent reinventing the wheel. I'm 
most of the time in #hwios/#hwios-dev @ freenode if you have any questions(or 
through mail offcourse)

kind regards,

Jeroen / Phrearch 

On Friday 02 April 2010 17:00:30 Impalah Shenzhou wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> For those of you who could be interested I have uploaded to sourceforge the
> code and documentation for unga, my UGAIM server projects programmed in PHP
> and based on Code Igniter framework.
> 
> I haven't finished yet all the testing, but is 100% operative for Apache
> (windows & *IX) and php 5.2.X (5.3 NO!). It should work with all the
> opensim 0.6.X versions, but maybe some methods are not implemented yet
> (overall presence).
> 
> My tests have been done with 3 opensim servers running on different
> machines (an old Intel celeron 512 mb ram, one Intel core duo 3Gb ram and
> a brand new Amd64 4Gb ram) serving 6 regions each with a media of 4000
> objects per region (2 of the regions have 18000 prims). I have used 4
> avatar for the tests... yes... they are few, I know. I will try tests with
> libopenmetaverse bots in the near future.
> 
> Warning: the database model is almost totally incompatible with current
> opensim/Robust (I am developing a migration method actually) so, right now,
> please don't use unga for serving existing grids.
> 
> I haven't finished all the docs, and interesting sections about integrated
> caching, for example, are not event started, but I think the main docs
> should allow anyone with minimal knodlegge about apache to run an unga
> grid.
> 
> So... the links:
> 
>    - Project page on sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/unga/
>    - Documentation wiki (install instructions, project dos...):
> https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/unga
> 
> The last thing... unga is only another alternative or a complement to
> ROBUST. It has all the advantages and glitches of any application deployed
> on a web server. In this case, I feel more confortable having a well tested
> web server controlling all the "under http" stuff. PHP was only the
> inmediate language to make unga possible, but my future plans include the
> migration to Python platforms/frameworks (Django and Tornado).
> 
> Enjoy it.
> 
> Greetings
> 
>     Impalah