Difference between revisions of "Project Motivation"
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* 20 thousand avatars per region ([[Talk:Project_Motivation|calculated here based on 2 bn users]]). | |||
Revision as of 16:30, 25 September 2007
According to Zero Linden, the project was motivated by thoughts a year ago when Second Life was growing rapidly and Linden Lab was thinking about how to scale the grid.
There have been two timeframes set back then: The next few months and the next years. This architecture discussion is about the next years.
Scary numbers
If we assume that virtual worlds will be a significant part of the future, then the following numbers might not be so far off:
- 60 million regions (probably more) (60 was mentioned here by Zero Linden )
- 2 billion users
- 50 - 100 million concurrency (on whatever device)
- 20 thousand avatars per region (calculated here based on 2 bn users).
These numbers will not be possible with the grid right now and additionally some more use cases need to be solved like connecting 3rd party hosted regions to the grid.