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They have up to three racks for a flight simulator? I would've never thought they're that complex. Do they need that much computing power or is it other devices
by dx034 4y ago
They have up to three racks for a flight simulator? I would've never thought they're that complex. Do they need that much computing power or is it other devices that are needed?
- sithadmin 4y ago2/3rd's ish compute, 1/3 other stuff from what I've seen. A good chunk of the compute are appliance-type boxes supporting simulation of particular embedded systems in a traditional environment. Most of the complexity comes from integration of these misc accessory systems. In general aside from the boxes handling the graphics projection, most of the 'compute' is idle a lot of the time, even when the simulator is running. There's usually a big burst of work to prep and load the simulation into the simulator, then minimal (but very latency sensitive) chatter back and forth between the various simulator components and the backend compute as the simulation runs.