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 heart in Frankfurt, Germany.
The improve is predicted 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 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 Techniques 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“We had a hodge-podge of servers from Ryzen 5’s to Ryzen 9’s within the outdated cluster that we constructed up over time,” he informed Hypergrid Enterprise. “Plus that knowledge heart 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 knowledge heart. 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, at the very least 128GB RAM, and 2TB Server Grade NVMEs in RAID one configuration. There was no worth enhance for individuals who hire land on the grid.
“We had been a just about lag free grid earlier than, however this takes us to the following degree,” 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 practically instantaneous and objects rezzing at a a lot sooner fee, he added.
The grid’s massive map, which beforehand took a while to load regardless of fast-loading tiles, has additionally seen a big 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 deliver up the area identify. That’s fully mounted by this improve.”
The migration course of, whereas advanced, was made attainable by means of 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 straightforward 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 sort of constructed as we realized.”
The grid additionally now has its personal community within the knowledge heart, he added.
“Every thing is quicker as a result of we’re not having to route our knowledge spherical the information heart,” he mentioned. “There are noticeable pace variations, particularly in heavier areas. This implies the entire grid is method sooner and prepared for the long run.”
Regardless of all of the enhancements, the price of operating the brand new cluster is about the identical because the outdated one, he mentioned, though the grid has incurred a big one-time price this month because of operating each clusters concurrently in the course of the switch course of.
Clevett mentioned he’s open to serving to different grids with comparable initiatives — even when they could be thought-about opponents. He’s assisted different grids with technical points previously, he mentioned, together with offering server sources throughout emergencies and even serving to revive grids that had been getting ready to closure.
“I simply assume we’re higher working collectively on this unimaginable OpenSim venture,” Clevett mentioned.
Your entire 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 objective 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 yr, changing into the largest grid by land space. It has held that spot ever since.
Wolf Territories has additionally been rising quickly in energetic person numbers as effectively. 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 normal areas.
Right here at Hypergrid Enterprise, I take advantage of “normal 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 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 could be simpler — and it is going to 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 method, begin your individual weblog.
I’m severe, please begin your individual weblog! We don’t have sufficient publications overlaying OpenSim! I’d like to assist in any method I can, and can run free adverts for you, and introduce you to all of the grid house owners.
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 might 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 normal 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 newest stats. As of this writing, the grid reviews 5,361 energetic customers and 28,512 normal area equivalents. OSgrid, the earlier chief, reviews 5,280 energetic customers and 27,985 normal area equivalents.
So Wolf Territories is now within the lead by each metrics.
