A month-to-month social occasion on Wolf Territories Grid. (Picture courtesy Wolf Territories Grid.)
In a transfer that guarantees a quicker, smoother, and extra responsive digital world expertise, Wolf Territories Grid has migrated to a brand new server cluster at a knowledge middle in Frankfurt, Germany.
The improve is predicted to considerably improve efficiency and reliability for the grid’s hundreds of customers, who can now get pleasure from lightning-fast teleports, faster rezzing of objects, and an total extra responsive setting.
The switchover incurred minimal downtime for the grid — simply 14 minutes.
Paul Clevett, often known as 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 Knowledge 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 previous cluster that we constructed up over time,” he instructed Hypergrid Enterprise. “Plus that knowledge middle had all our servers break up over completely different networks. What this successfully meant was that the site visitors between the servers must route across the knowledge middle. Plus, there was no excessive availability.”
The brand new server cluster boasts a formidable 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 subsequent stage,” Clevett stated.
Customers have already observed the distinction, with feedback like, “It’s way more wizzy!,” he stated. The enhancements transcend simply diminished lag, with teleports now being almost instantaneous and objects rezzing at a a lot quicker charge, he added.
The grid’s giant map, which beforehand took a while to load regardless of fast-loading tiles, has additionally seen a big enchancment.
“As a result of we now have an enormous map it used to take some time to load it in,” Clevett stated. “You’d click on on a area and it could take a while to convey up the area title. That’s fully fastened by this improve.”
The migration course of, whereas advanced, was made doable via the efforts of the Wolf Territories Grid group, together with grid directors DJ Illusions and Luna Stormfeather, in addition to the tech group 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,” stated Clevett. “The important thing actually was ensuring the cluster design was proper and that it met our wants. What we had in our previous cluster was one thing we form of constructed as we discovered.”
The grid additionally now has its personal community within the knowledge middle, he added.
“The whole lot is quicker as a result of we’re not having to route our knowledge spherical the info middle,” he stated. “There are noticeable velocity variations, particularly in heavier areas. This implies the entire grid is means quicker 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 previous one, he stated, though the grid has incurred a big one-time value this month attributable to working each clusters concurrently throughout the switch course of.
Clevett stated he’s open to serving to different grids with comparable tasks — even when they may be thought of opponents. He’s assisted different grids with technical points up to now, he stated, together with offering server sources throughout emergencies and even serving to revive grids that have been getting ready to closure.
“I simply assume we’re higher working collectively on this unbelievable OpenSim venture,” Clevett stated.
The complete Wolf Territories Grid group, together with the pleasant AI robotic “Bobby,” is worked up to welcome customers to the improved digital area, which is now higher geared up to deal with the grid’s purpose of reaching 100,000 areas and 100,000 registered customers, he added.
In keeping with Hypergrid Enterprise knowledge, 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 nicely. On this month’s stats report, it was solely 5 energetic customers behind OSgrid, the most well-liked 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 measurement, as a substitute of named areas, as a result of OpenSim permits for areas of assorted sizes. So, for instance, in OpenSim, you’ll be able to 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 angle 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 will probably 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 means, 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 means I can, and can run free advertisements for you, and introduce you to all of the grid house owners.
Again to Wolf Territories.
The grid presents 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,” stated 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 whole. 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 most recent stats. As of this writing, the grid stories 5,361 energetic customers and 28,512 commonplace area equivalents. OSgrid, the earlier chief, stories 5,280 energetic customers and 27,985 commonplace area equivalents.
So Wolf Territories is now within the lead by each metrics.
