Tengu Yamabushi

They're probably ramping up the number of sims per physical server in proportion to the number of CPU/cores on the box/blade (with RAM bumped up as well). Multicore systems are fairly common on workstation/server class hardware nowadays (I'm typing this reply on a dual quadcore Xeon, for instance).

That's not to say that multiple sim performance necessarily scales well on that sort of rig... I'll defer to the hardware oriented folks here on that one.

Samantha Fuller

The OpenSim people say that memory is the main bottleneck so if they are running totally 64 bit Windows with 32 Gigs of Ram they might get by with it, but somehow i don't think so. Even so that points out that the anouncment is missing important data on what is being offered.

Magnet Homewood

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Porsupah Ree

There's a very tiny glimpse into that, over on Dusan's preliminary examination.

I'm wondering if any of the OpenSim brigade intend to come out with something similar. It'd be a considerable undertaking, as much of that potential revenue would go out in support costs, even assuming they felt the code ready for such turnkey deployment.

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