Tag Archives: ScienceSim

Wed, Nov 2 2011
ScienceSim land grants announced

ScienceSim land grants announced

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Press release: Fashion Research Institute Announces ScienceSim Land Grant Program Awardees New York, NY  – Fashion Research Institute has been collaborating with Intel Labs since 2009, helping to push... 

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Mon, Aug 8 2011
Grants available: free regions, up to 100,000 prims, 1,000 avatars

Grants available: free regions, up to 100,000 prims, 1,000 avatars

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Press release: Fashion Research Institute Oversees a Third Round of the Science Sim Land Grant Program with Intel Labs NEW YORK — Fashion Research Institute is pleased to announce the third round... 

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Fri, Jul 8 2011
Intel’s DSG to be part of core OpenSim

Intel’s DSG to be part of core OpenSim

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Intel’s Distributed Scene Graph — the technology that allows OpenSim to handle thousands of avatars on a single region – is now available for download. In the future, the technology will... 

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Thu, Jun 9 2011
1,000 avatars soon coming to a region near you

1,000 avatars soon coming to a region near you

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Intel will release the code for its Distributed Scene Graph 3-D — which allows thousands of avatars on a single OpenSim regions — at the end of June, the company told Hypergrid Business today. The... 

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Wed, Feb 16 2011
ScienceGrid back on hypergrid

ScienceGrid back on hypergrid

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The non-profit, research-focused ScienceSim grid is now accessible via hypergrid teleports again, after more than a year of no hypergrid connectivity. ScienceSim turned off the hypergrid last January,... 

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Wed, Nov 3 2010
Survey: 84% of OpenSim users would recommend platform

Survey: 84% of OpenSim users would recommend platform

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OpenSim users overwhelmingly said that they would “absolutely” recommend the platform to others. Out of 114 people who responded to our survey this week and answered this question, 84 percent... 

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Thu, Oct 28 2010
ScienceSim expands land grant project

ScienceSim expands land grant project

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OpenSim’s ScienceSim grid is expanding its land grant program, with an offer of super-powered regions of up to a million primitive objects and 1,000 simultaneous avatars per region. ScienSim and... 

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Tue, Oct 26 2010
Fashion Research Institute brings premium content to Science Sim

Fashion Research Institute brings premium content to Science Sim

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Press Release: Fashion Research Institute Collaborates with Intel Labs to Bring Premium Digital Content to Science Sim New York, NY – “Content is King” has long been the mantra of the gurus... 

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Wed, Oct 13 2010
An OpenSim grid primer

An OpenSim grid primer

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There are a lot of different kinds of OpenSim grids out there — it can get a little confusing. Well, a lot confusing. Here’s a quick primer. Social grids Social grids attempt to replicate the... 

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Tue, Oct 5 2010
How to choose an OpenSim hosting company

How to choose an OpenSim hosting company

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Yes, you can run OpenSim for free on your own computer -  you can even run it on a USB stick. But do you want to? Here’s a question — would you run your own Apache Web server for your website,... 

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Mon, Oct 4 2010
Advice to educators

Advice to educators

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Today, Linden Lab announced that the price of land for educators and non-profits will double in January. As a result, the price differential between Second Life land and OpenSim becomes even more significant. You... 

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Fri, Jul 9 2010
Grant available for virtual butterfly exhibit

Grant available for virtual butterfly exhibit

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The New York-based Fashion Research Institute, Inc. is giving away five copies of its ground-breaking butterfly exhibit to researchers or educators. The exhibit, available in the form of an OpenSim archive... 

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Sun, Mar 14 2010
OpenSim grids grow 10% this month

OpenSim grids grow 10% this month

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The world’s top 40 OpenSim-based grids gained over 900 regions over the past month, from 8,626 to 9,533, an increase of more than 10 percent. As usual, OSGrid was the single biggest gainer, with... 

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Sun, Feb 28 2010
The Maria Awards

The Maria Awards

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Can’t wait for Oscar night? I know I can’t. So here at Hypergrid Business we’re doling out our own awards. First, a little video introduction. This is a little sailboat trip that OpenSim’s... 

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Sat, Dec 19 2009
Germans set half million prim record

Germans set half million prim record

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Germany’s Talentraspel virtual worlds Ltd.  announced they reached a record number of prims this week, with half a million separate objects in a single OpenSim region. According to the company,... 

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Wed, Nov 18 2009
OpenSim in Intel spotlight

OpenSim in Intel spotlight

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Intel CTO Justin Rattner introduced OpenSim superstars Shenlei Winkler and Crista Lopes to the world yesterday at the at the SC09 supercomputing conference in Portland, Ore. According to Rattner, super... 

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