Hardware Recommendations
What hardware is best for graphics applications using VR-Vantage, VR-Engage & VR-Forces?
At MAK, we used the following specification for our 2018 IITSEC demonstration computers and our engineering staff builds and tests on this configuration. You know your specific needs better than we do, so scale up or down from here based on cost and performance tradeoffs.
- Operating Systems:
- Windows 10 Pro 64bit
- Redhat Enterprise Linux
- Intel Core i7/i9 (Recommend a minimum of 8 cores)
- Use Intel Xeons for Virtual Machines (Recommend a minimum of 8 cores per Virtual Machine (VM))
- Follow the recommendation for graphics applications except that no particular GPU is required in back-end only applications.
- Gamepad:
Logitech Gamepad F310 - Joysticks:
Thrustmaster HOTAS Warthog™ Flight Stick with HOTAS Warthog™ Dual Throttles
Thrustmaster T-Flight Hotas X - Steering Wheel:
Logitech G29 Racing Wheel with pedals - Varjo
- Vive
- Oculus Rift
- AWS - G3 Instance - g3.4xlarge (Graphics Card: NVidia M60)
- AWS - G4dn Instance - g4dn.4xlarge (Graphics Card: NVidia T4)
- Using Microsoft Windows Server 2019
- 2x - Xeon® Gold 6242 Processor 22M Cache, 2.8-3.9GHz, 16C/32T, 150W
- 8x - 64GB 4Rx4 8G x 72-Bit PC4-2933 CL21 Load Reduced w/Parity 288-Pin DIMM
- 3x - Quadro RTX 6000 24GB GDDR6 384-bit PCI-E 3.0 x16, 295W
- Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
- VMware vSphere/ESXi
- VMware vCenter
- VMware Horizon Client - Desktop Virtualization Client
- Memory (RAM): 32GB
Disk storage: 1TB Solid State Drive (SSD)
Graphics Processor (GPU): NVIDIA Turing™ architecture based cards - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 or Quadro RTX versions
GPU Memory: 8GB VRAM
Hardware for VR-Forces Simulation Engine (non-graphics) applications
The following input devices have been tested for use in VR-Engage.
Other devices can be configured through MAK’s software interface.
Virtual Reality Devices for VR-Vantage/VR-Engage.
Virtual Machine Setups
Public Cloud - We have tested VR-Forces, VR-Vantage, and VR-Engage on the Amazon cloud using the following configurations.
Instance Types:
Private Cloud - We have tested a private cloud system with virtual machines with full 3D graphics performance using NVidia GRID based technology running VR-Forces, VR-Vantage, and VR-Engage.
Computer:
Virtual Machine Software:
What hardware is required for VR-TheWorld Server?
VR-TheWorldServer is built on the Docker platform. This allows you to use Linux or Windows as platforms to run VR-TheWorldServer.
A VR-TheWorldServer installation has the following software and hardware components:
Docker: A web-based application used to deliver the VR-TheWorld Server database structure and data.
VR-TheWorldServer software.
VR-TheWorldServer database structure and data files. The database provided by MAK is optional. You can create your own database and use your own data files. You can also add your data files to those provided by MAK.
Hard drive. MAK provides a hard drive with installation scripts and data files.
The minimum recommended hardware configuration for running VR-TheWorld Server is:
Server:
– Quad core
– 32 GB RAM
– 250 GB hard drive
Data storage:
– 4 TB of usable space (after configuration).
Operating system:
– Red Hat 7
– CentOS 7
– Windows 10