[sldev] AWG - Scope (Future SL Architecture versus Multiworld Interoperability)

[Argent Stonecutter]

On 26-Oct-2007, at 12:49, Matthew Dowd wrote:
> Yes - there are issues around this. Latency is one, although this  
> may not be a so much an issue if the components are on machines  
> within the same physical LAN.

I strongly believe that even adding the system call latency for  
communicating between separate processes on the same server would be  
an issue for *any* communication in the critical path of the physics  
engine.

> The particular partitioning may not be appropriate - another way  
> might be that the ground area controlled by a sim varies with the  
> load - a quiet 65536sqm region may be looked after by 1 simulator  
> but as it gets busier it may end up being controlled by 4  
> simulators each looking after a 16384sqm quadrant etc. (this of  
> course assumes much smoother transfer between sims and better  
> intercommunication between sim at the boundaries) etc.

Variable sized simulators is something that would be extremely  
useful. You could go the other way, too, and get more efficient  
Openspaces.