Tribal Net: Decentralized Grid on the OpenSim Framework
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Posted on UgoTrade is a long and fascinating dissection of Tribal Net's OpenSim for PC, as well as a long interview with Tribal Media's two founders, Darren Guard and Stefan Andersson.
UgoTrade notes that Tribal Net has brought the concept of a decentralized grid to OpenSim. This means that areas of the grid are not hosted at server farms, but rather on each individual PC. Says Andersson:
"Everybody brings their own computing power [to Tribal Net] and we’ve packaged it for end users. I mean that basically joe schmoe can install it, set it up, and run it... Also we’ve done some ...