Oct 28 2007
Mt. Tamalpais modeled on 49 OpenSim regions
Whee! The OpenSim experience grows more wondrous each week. My humble trash-to-testing server, 1 GHz Celeron, 1.5 GB memory, Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon, is now running at capacity: 49 standalone OpenSim regions, seamlessly covered in 1:4.57-scale real-life terrain, a single user and just the first couple of prims.
The scale works out to a real-life terrain square almost 8.2 kilometers on a side.
The very first couple of prims have gone in to mimic the Gardner Fire Lookout on top of East Peak.
This feels like a bona fide breakthrough for me, knowing that prototypes of Berkeley could be set up, perhaps 49 regions to a test box, on just 10 servers for starters. That would be supporting a 1:1 scale, 500-region model of the City. Much to think about!