rec.autos.simulators

    I was told once that the higher end computer games were among the most
resource hogging things that can be done with a computer.  I can only assume
that Autocad being used in the auto industry would be the biggest hogs(?).
Any case, I need a small list of at least three items, weather the above is
true or not, that are resource hogs in a scale of 1-3...  Something(s) that
will put racing sims in to perspective and justify large amounts of money to
be spent on regular upgrades.

--
Michael A. Barlow

Technical justifications are one thing, what about personal ones?
Do you enjoy ***?   Do you enjoy spending money on systems.

If yes and yes, then you can make almost anything justifiable!  ;-)

:     I was told once that the higher end computer games were among the most
: resource hogging things that can be done with a computer.  I can only
assume
: that Autocad being used in the auto industry would be the biggest hogs(?).
: Any case, I need a small list of at least three items, weather the above
is
: true or not, that are resource hogs in a scale of 1-3...  Something(s)
that
: will put racing sims in to perspective and justify large amounts of money
to
: be spent on regular upgrades.
:
: --
: Michael A. Barlow
:
:

    Maybe I should have also added, "With the exception of Personal
Enjoyment", to that list.  I'm after some things that say that I would do
better at Racing/Race Driving, if I had the next best
video/sound/CPU/ram/ect../ect.. there is on the market.  Something that says
to my "Boss" that I'm lacking if I don't have X component(s).  and on the
same note, something that says only people who run X type of software need
to spend more money.

    On the "personal justification" classification, It's easy to justify to
your self spending money for maximum enjoyment on something that you're
***ed to, or need to be better at.  I need to justify it to my "Boss"
(not wife, girlfriend, ect..).  or even justify it to a friend.

--
Michael A. Barlow
FILSCA (www.filsca.com)

MSC.Nastran!  When you've got a job running on two 600+ MHz RISC
processors, with a gig of memory allocated *each* and 40+ Gb of
scratch space striped across a 4-disk array with its own dedicated
SCSI controller, that's starting to be a resource hog... (especially
when it still takes several hours to run!)

AutoCAD's wussy - it's mostly used for 2D IME, which is nothing ;-)

Jonny

memconf:  V1.39 30-Mar-2001 http://www.webpak.net/~tschmidt/unix.html
hostname: hemmelig
banner:   8-slot Sun Enterprise E4500/E5500
model:    Sun Ultra-Enterprise
Solaris 2.6 5/98 s297s_hw3smccServer_09 SPARC, SunOS 5.6
12 UltraSPARC-II cpus, cpu freq: 400MHz, system freq: 100MHz
CPU Units:
                    Run   Ecache   CPU    CPU
Brd  CPU   Module   MHz     MB    Impl.   Mask
---  ---  -------  -----  ------  ------  ----
 0     0     0      400     8.0   US-II    10.0
 0     1     1      400     8.0   US-II    10.0
 2     4     0      400     8.0   US-II    10.0
 2     5     1      400     8.0   US-II    10.0
 3     6     0      400     8.0   US-II    10.0
 3     7     1      400     8.0   US-II    10.0
 4     8     0      400     8.0   US-II    10.0
 4     9     1      400     8.0   US-II    10.0
 6    12     0      400     8.0   US-II    10.0
 6    13     1      400     8.0   US-II    10.0
 7    14     0      400     8.0   US-II    10.0
 7    15     1      400     8.0   US-II    10.0
Memory Units:
                                                     Intrlv.  Intrlv.
Brd   Bank   MB   DIMMs   Status   Condition  Speed   Factor   With
---  -----  ----  -----  -------  ----------  -----  -------  -------
 0     0    2048  8x256   Active      OK       60ns    4-way     A
 2     0    2048  8x256   Active      OK       60ns    4-way     A
 3     0    2048  8x256   Active      OK       60ns    4-way     A
 4     0    2048  8x256   Active      OK       60ns    4-way     A
total memory = 8192MB (8GB)

This is just one of the machines in the system. It's running trading
software. (It's probably a little bit overkill though.)

Still, this is nothing. Try looking at weather forecasts or oil
reservoir modeling stuff.
--
  -asbjxrn

I run a cad program called CadKey on a fresh boot with not too much
running in the background I go from 92% system resources to somthing
like 15% system resources, no way can I run more than one instance of
this program.  Very difficult to run other programs such as Excel or
Word at the same time as well.  I also run Autocad 14 and 2000, 14 I
can have 5 or 6 instances open at one time and still multi task all I
need to.  There are some people in my office who have win2000 and they
do not have this problem, but I'm running win 98se, can't wait till
the bos gets me a new puter.

Try running some finite element codes. Depending on the size of the model and
the type of analysis (stress, thermal, fluid dynamics, etc) a fast PC can take
from hours to several days to come up with the results on a fast system.  Video
resources aren't that critical, but better cpu, memory, and hard drives sure
count.  But seeing as the yearly license fees for some of these codes are in the
range of five figures $US, spending a little extra on hardware doesn't seem that
bad. ;-)

Ken