[Opensim-users] revised terms...

[Diva Canto]

For sake of completeness, the hypergrid is a concept both at the logical 
and physical levels.

At the logical level, it's a web of maps. As someone put it this 
morning, it's "Mr. Spock's weird chess game" :-)
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Image:Spock_McCoy_3D_chess.jpg
http://www.hemptrek.com/parmen/parmen.html

At the physical level, it performs a mashup of servers; region servers 
end up interacting with a plurality of glue servers, instead of just one 
of each type of service.

Diva Canto wrote:
> Paul,
>
> Your division of logical vs physical space is right on. But I think 
> this is closer to reality, though:
>
> 1 Logical Space
> 1.1 A region is 65,536 sq. meters and infinite Z space, which provides 
> a 3D space *service*
> 1.2 A Map (logical grid, matrix) contains one or more regions.
> 1.3 A collection of *services* glue the regions together. Those 
> services are:
>       grid service, user service, asset service, inventory service, 
> and others.
>
> 2 Physical space
> The different *services* mentioned above are implemented by *servers*. 
> Servers can run one or more of those services.
> 2.1 In the simplest case, there is only one server running all the 
> services. This is known as "standalone".
> 2.2 In another common configuration, one or more servers run the 3D 
> space service (1 or more regions per server) and independent servers 
> run the glue services. This common configuration is known as "grid".
>
>
> Paul Fishwick wrote:
>> Here is a suggested rewrite. Hopefully, I have
>> not confused matters:
>>
>> 1. Logical Space (map) is defined as follows:
>>
>>    1.1 A Grid contains one or more Regions,
>>          where each region is managed by
>>          a different Region Server. A Grid map
>>          is indexed by Grid coordinates.
>>          [Example: OSGrid]
>>    1.2 A Sim contains one or more Regions,
>>          where each region is managed by
>>           the same Region Server. A Sim map is
>>           indexed by Sim coordinates.
>>    1.3 A Region is 65,536 sq. meters, and
>>          contains one or more Parcels
>>       
>>
>> 2. Physical space (architecture) is defined as follows:
>>
>>     2.1 StandAlone Mode is one computer running
>>           one Sim (one instance of OpenSim).
>>     2.2 Grid Mode is one or more computers in the
>>           following configurations:
>>           2.2.1  Region Server: Region servers  are
>>                     defined by an instance of OpenSim, and
>>                     they are clients of the Grid Server.
>>                     [Example: a region that connects to OSGrid]
>>           2.2.2  Grid Server: Grid servers (UGAIM) connect
>>                     the Region Servers together to form a Grid.
>>                     [Example: OSGrid servers]
>>      2.3  Hypergrid Mode is a hyperlinked configuration
>>             involving Sims and Grids
>>
>>
>>  
>>
>> p
>>
>> John Hopkin wrote:
>>   
>>> Paul Fishwick wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>     
>>>> A Region is the same thing as a Sim (65,536 sq. meters)
>>>>     
>>>>       
>>> Rightly or wrongly, I've been making a distinction between those two
>>> terms since using Opensim, although they're pretty much equivalent in
>>> SL:
>>>
>>> - A Region is a 64K area
>>> - A Sim is an instance of OpenSim.exe
>>>
>>> A single Sim can host several Regions; Linden tend to run each Region
>>> in a separate Sim, so they can be split in hardware terms, but I
>>> prefer to run my four Regions with just one Sim, and this is normal
>>> for Opensim.
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