[Opensim-users] standalone vs. grid

[Lc]

short answer :

 standalone : all services and regions are one program that can handle x
regions (the files under Regions/*.xml) as long as your system support it.
Grid : all the services could be spread on diferents computers eventually,
and the same or any other computer could run the region server.



On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Paul Fishwick <fishwick at cise.ufl.edu>wrote:

> Still trying to get my head around the exact differences between
> StandAlone vs. Grid. At one time, I thought the word "grid" meant
> the rectangular configuration of regions. Is this rectangular collection
> of regions called the "sim" instead ?  I can see that in grid mode, one
> could
> fire up each of the 5 main servers + the OpenSim process, each on
> a separate computer. One would just reset the .xml files to point to
> the correct IPs and database(s)?
>
> However, could one partition the sim by computer? If so, what is
> the mapping of computers to sim in terms of where the database(s)
> are located and where the 6 processes are located (UGAIM +
> OpenSim)?
>
> For example, if I were to recommend that at the university level,
> they should have a grid of, say, 16x16 regions, could this be divided
> into 4 4x4 sims, each having separate sets of computers? Thanks --
> I've looked online but have not seen this level of detail--I may be
> looking in the wrong place.
> -paul
>
>
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