Second Life Architecture
Hardware
2000+ Servers in 2007
~6000 Servers in early 2008
Plans to upgrade to ~10000 (?)
4 sims per machine, for both class 4 and class 5
Used all-AMD for years, but are moving from the Opteron 270 to the Intel Xeon 5148
The upgrade to “class 5″ servers doubled the RAM per machine from 2GB to 4GB [...]
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