Comments on: Prototyping with OpenSim: Testing out Amazon S3 as a Grid-Mode Asset Server

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Web3D-Blog — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:04:56 +0000

[...] Further References: Adam Frisby’s take on setting up EC2 as a grid mode asset server [...]

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Could there be a future without big grids? « justincc’s opensim blog — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:23:40 +0000

[...] a grid. Asset services, for instance, are little more than basic storage (as described in one of Adam’s experiments) that a viewer could easily deal with directly. Inventory services are a little more involved, [...]

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Jeff Barr’s Blog » Links for Sunday, July 27, 2008 — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:50:53 +0000

[...] Adam Frisby: Prototyping with OpenSim: Testing out Amazon S3 as a Grid-Mode Asset Server - “The price is right, and the solution is fully programmable via a convenient web API, so it’s snuck itself into all sorts of places. What I’d like to experiment here is using it as a complete grid asset server, for those who haven’t toyed much with the OpenSim asset server under the hood - it’s effectively a webserver with two supported operations: “PUT” and “GET” - funnily enough this overlaps nicely with any network accessible storage system, S3 included.“ [...]

By: Adam Frisby

Adam Frisby — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:23:57 +0000

We’ve thought about (and implemented code) to host regions on EC2 in the past. (Might be something I discuss later)

However, this little module would complement them nicely, since S3 has exceptionally fast access to EC2 and vice versa - and it means you have one less server you need to run.

By: Dale Innis

Dale Innis — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:41:33 +0000

Kewl! Have you thought at all about / played with using, say, a server from Amazon’s EC2 as the compute box for a region? Just to be ultimately cloudy. Any changes likely to be required for that?

By: Rob Smart

Rob Smart — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:54:22 +0000

Very nice Adam, though I’m not sure i’d want to be the one paying for the S3 storage if it was hooked up to a real grid

Have you thought about using SVN for a grid mode asset server ? The performance might suck but it would allow you to roll back individual assets etc.

By: norgan

norgan — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:53:14 +0000

I a not sure about others but the idea is there i just hope it won’t be using amazon’s s3 service. It may just be the path from Australia to S3 but this services is one of the slowest download point i have had to use.

The idea is great but we need a system such as the mentioned Akamai that will be a much better solution with local mirrors in Australia.

Whatever the interop solution involves it must take into consideration the geographically sparse user base!

Commendations for attacking the issue i might try this out on a local grid server