Recommended hardware resources.

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dds
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Recommended hardware resources.

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Hello.
What hardware resources are needed to achieve a great performance on VREP?

coppelia
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Re: Recommended hardware resources.

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Hello,

there are no special requirements, but maybe keep an eye on:
  • have a relatively decent graphic card. But this also depends on the complexity of your simulation scenes
  • have a high CPU clock
  • have 4 cores, maybe more if you have a lot of different remote API clients/ROS nodes or similar.
It is important to understand that the main simulation loop is running on a single core (except for some sections that can run parallel, refer to the default main script for details), since we need to guarantee a synchronous and sequential execution of several items. The typical simulation loop is:
  • Remote API command handling
  • Actuation (e.g. child script execution, IK, dynamics, etc.)
  • Sensing (e.g. vision sensor handling, collision detection, distance calculations, sensing child script execution, etc.)
  • optional display
Cheers

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