May 29, 20179 yr I got a chance to see our procedures trainer in its load mode and the processors supporting it. Realize this is just the procedures trainer and not the actual Full Flight Simulator i.e. it is the lowest end of training device and designed for checklist procedures, runups, and avionics integration training. It flies, but you cannot log time in it. The procedures trainer is, of course, a rack mount server with multiple blades. The main server is the Xeon E5 2670 v3 x 4 for a total of 32 cores running at 3.2 ghz.64Gb of memory support the trainer. The Instructor's Operating System is a pair of Xeon E5 2620s with 11 cores available (not sure where the 12 core went.) Visuals are through multiple Quadro P6000s. (This is not a visual sim) On multiple touch screen monitors. Cost with avionics licensing and custom software, approaching $100K. My i7 4770K is so insignificant after seeing this. :)
May 29, 20179 yr 10 minutes ago, KenG said: I got a chance to see our procedures trainer in its load mode and the processors supporting it. Realize this is just the procedures trainer and not the actual Full Flight Simulator i.e. it is the lowest end of training device and designed for checklist procedures, runups, and avionics integration training. It flies, but you cannot log time in it. The procedures trainer is, of course, a rack mount server with multiple blades. The main server is the Xeon E5 2670 v3 x 4 for a total of 32 cores running at 3.2 ghz.64Gb of memory support the trainer. The Instructor's Operating System is a pair of Xeon E5 2620s with 11 cores available (not sure where the 12 core went.) Visuals are through multiple Quadro P6000s. (This is not a visual sim) On multiple touch screen monitors. Cost with avionics licensing and custom software, approaching $100K. My i7 4770K is so insignificant after seeing this. :) Yet we still demand our sims try to match such systems. We load up our computers, seeking greater and greater detail of every sort, then pout at the framerates and other compromises. I've wondered for years whether it will ever come to a point where simmers finally concede that we've asked as much as we can from our computers, especially given the age of our current favorite sims. We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
May 29, 20179 yr Well Ken, your Aircraft software goes in the same direction I am afraid. Starts from around say $500K and goes way north of that too, and it does not include external, internal, or VC modelling. Makes complaining about PMDG, and FSLabs prices moot. Waleed N
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