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The Second Life Grid Architecture Working

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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 ofvirtual 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

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Region

Region

Region

Region

Second Life tomorrow?

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The Grid

Region

Central Databases

The current architecture

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Agent Domain

Region Domain

Region Region

AgentAgent

The new architecture as proposed byLinden Lab

Region

Agent

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Agent Domain Agent Domain

Region Domain Region Domain

Region Domain Region Domain

Linden Lab Company X

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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-

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