A month-to-month social occasion on Wolf Territories Grid. (Picture courtesy Wolf Territories Grid.)
In a transfer that guarantees a sooner, smoother, and extra responsive digital world expertise, Wolf Territories Grid has migrated to a brand new server cluster at an information middle in Frankfurt, Germany.
The improve is anticipated to considerably improve efficiency and reliability for the grid’s 1000’s of customers, who can now get pleasure from lightning-fast teleports, faster rezzing of objects, and an general extra responsive surroundings.
The switchover incurred minimal downtime for the grid — simply 14 minutes.
Paul Clevett, also called Lone Wolf in-world, is the director of Wolf Software program Methods Ltd., the corporate that owns the grid. It was hosted on the Myloc Information Centre in Dusseldorf for the previous three years.
“We had a hodge-podge of servers from Ryzen 5’s to Ryzen 9’s within the outdated cluster that we constructed up through the years,” he instructed Hypergrid Enterprise. “Plus that information middle had all our servers cut up over totally different networks. What this successfully meant was that the site visitors between the servers must route across the information middle. Plus, there was no excessive availability.”
The brand new server cluster boasts a powerful array of {hardware}, together with AMD Ryzen 9 processors with 32 cores, not less than 128GB RAM, and 2TB Server Grade NVMEs in RAID one configuration. There was no value improve for individuals who hire land on the grid.
“We have been a just about lag free grid earlier than, however this takes us to the following stage,” Clevett mentioned.
Customers have already seen the distinction, with feedback like, “It’s way more wizzy!,” he mentioned. The enhancements transcend simply lowered lag, with teleports now being almost instantaneous and objects rezzing at a a lot sooner fee, he added.
The grid’s giant map, which beforehand took a while to load regardless of fast-loading tiles, has additionally seen a major enchancment.
“As a result of we have now an enormous map it used to take some time to load it in,” Clevett mentioned. “You’d click on on a area and it will take a while to convey up the area identify. That’s fully mounted by this improve.”
The migration course of, whereas advanced, was made doable by the efforts of the Wolf Territories Grid workforce, together with grid directors DJ Illusions and Luna Stormfeather, in addition to the tech workforce comprised of Clevett himself, Busty, and Daja.
“From a technical perspective, it was not simple and with out the assistance of Busty and Daja we positively wouldn’t be the place we’re,” mentioned Clevett. “The important thing actually was ensuring the cluster design was proper and that it met our wants. What we had in our outdated cluster was one thing we type of constructed as we realized.”
The grid additionally now has its personal community within the information middle, he added.
“The whole lot is quicker as a result of we’re not having to route our information spherical the info middle,” he mentioned. “There are noticeable velocity variations, particularly in heavier areas. This implies the entire grid is approach sooner and prepared for the longer term.”
Regardless of all of the enhancements, the price of working the brand new cluster is about the identical because the outdated one, he mentioned, though the grid has incurred a big one-time value this month as a result of working each clusters concurrently in the course of the switch course of.
Clevett mentioned he’s open to serving to different grids with related tasks — even when they is likely to be thought of opponents. He’s assisted different grids with technical points prior to now, he mentioned, together with offering server assets throughout emergencies and even serving to revive grids that have been on the point of closure.
“I simply suppose we’re higher working collectively on this unimaginable OpenSim undertaking,” Clevett mentioned.
The complete Wolf Territories Grid workforce, together with the pleasant AI robotic “Bobby,” is worked up to welcome customers to the improved digital house, which is now higher outfitted to deal with the grid’s objective of reaching 100,000 areas and 100,000 registered customers, he added.
In line with Hypergrid Enterprise information, Wolf Territories Grid, based in 2021, surpassed OSgrid in land space in November of final 12 months, turning into the largest grid by land space. It has held that spot ever since.
Wolf Territories has additionally been rising quickly in energetic consumer numbers as properly. On this month’s stats report, it was solely 5 energetic customers behind OSgrid, the preferred grid in OpenSim.
The grid had 5,271 energetic customers in March, and the equal of 28,496 commonplace areas.
Right here at Hypergrid Enterprise, I exploit “commonplace area equivalents” as a measure of land dimension, as an alternative of named areas, as a result of OpenSim permits for areas of varied sizes. So, for instance, in OpenSim, you possibly can have 4 Second Life-sized areas, every with, say, 15,000 prims — or a single two-by-two area with, say, 60,000 prims. From the attitude of a customer to that grid, the two-by-two setup will look the identical as 4 particular person areas, besides that border crossings can be simpler — and it will likely be labeled as a single area on the map. But in addition, I’m the boss right here. If you wish to measure land in another approach, begin your individual weblog.
I’m critical, please begin your individual weblog! We don’t have sufficient publications protecting OpenSim! I’d like to assist in any approach I can, and can run free advertisements for you, and introduce you to all of the grid homeowners.
Again to Wolf Territories.
The grid affords areas in four-by-four, eight-by-eight, and 12-by-12 configurations, with a most capability of as much as 1.2 million prims.
“We could go loopy and see how a 32-by-32 performs however that’s for testing,” mentioned Clevett.
Prices start at US $25 a month for a four-by-four area — the equal of 16 commonplace Second Life areas — with as much as 20,000 prims complete. The costs go as much as $76 a month for the 1.2 million prim configuration, and there are reductions for bulk orders.
I simply went and checked the newest stats. As of this writing, the grid studies 5,361 energetic customers and 28,512 commonplace area equivalents. OSgrid, the earlier chief, studies 5,280 energetic customers and 27,985 commonplace area equivalents.
So Wolf Territories is now within the lead by each metrics.
