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paulie Femto
Into the dark
Join date: 13 Sep 2003
Posts: 1,098
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01-01-2004 18:37
Call me a geek, but I was just wondering..what does the actual hardware that hosts SL look like? Is it racks and racks of servers? Any Lindens have pictures? Just curious.
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Morse Dillon
Lifetime Member
Join date: 11 Dec 2003
Posts: 142
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01-01-2004 18:43
was wondering this myself...particularly what the specs are on the cluster nodes.
Or maybe this is a "trade secret", heheh.
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Eggy Lippmann
Wiktator
Join date: 1 May 2003
Posts: 7,939
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01-01-2004 20:44
They are racks of servers, and not located in LL's HQ, but rather in some colo company called Level 3 or something.
Each rack has a "theme", like the sims in the north are all named after colors, and the ones in the south are all named after streets around LL's HQ.
I vaguely recall hearing someone say they were all 1GHz P3s but it wasnt a linden.
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Lordfly Digeridoo
Prim Orchestrator
Join date: 21 Jul 2003
Posts: 3,628
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01-01-2004 20:46
Someone that has benchmarking scripts told me that the older sims in the south are actually slower than the sims in the north. Maybe the northern sims have upgraded system specs?
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Eggy Lippmann
Wiktator
Join date: 1 May 2003
Posts: 7,939
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01-01-2004 20:47
Did "someone" take into account that southern sims are usually busier?  |
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Bino Arbuckle
Registered User
Join date: 31 Dec 2002
Posts: 369
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01-03-2004 02:34
1U rackmount Pentium 4 servers running Linux, costing about $1000 each. That's all that's been said and that's all I know.
Level3 appears to be their colo provider, Level3 being one of the larger owners of network infrastructure in the U.S.
I have heard rumors that not all the servers are equal in specs, but none has been confirmed by the Lindens.
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Jim Lupis
Fuzzy Taberite
Join date: 8 Jul 2003
Posts: 78
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01-03-2004 06:59
Level 3 is a "Tier one" ISP, on the same level as worldcom (uunet), Global Crossing, etc...
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