Christian Scholz / Tao Takashi
The Second Life Grid
Architecture Working
Group
Christian Scholz / Tao Takashi
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based on the talk given by Zero Linden of Linden Lab at the first
Architecture Working Group Meeting on Sep 13th 2007
Second Life is a registered trademark of Linden Lab
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How might the future of
virtual worlds look like?
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60 million regions*
* half of the existing web servers today
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2 billion users*
* about the amount of email addresses worldwide
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50 million concurrent
users*
* wild guess by Linden Lab ;-) being online might
mean something a lot more lightweight in the future
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Second Life today
Viewer
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Second Life tomorrow?
Region
Region
Region
Region
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The current
architecture
Region
The Grid
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Central Databases
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The new architecture as proposed by
Linden Lab
Agent Agent Agent
Agent Domain
Region Region Region
Region Domain
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Agent Domain Agent Domain
Region Domain Region Domain
Linden Lab Company X
Region Domain
Region Domain
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This is an open
project
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Everybody is
invited to
participate!
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How can you participate?
• SLDev Mailinglist
• Wiki
• Zero Linden‘s office hours
• to be announced meetings
• AWGroupies group in SL (ask Zha
Ewry for an invite)
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How can you participate?
The official wiki:
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Architecture_Working_Group
Transcript of holding this talk:
http://taotakashi.wordpress.com/2007/09/24/second-life-grid-architecture-meetup-
transcript/
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