It looks like the Sparc 20s that Pixar used in Toy Story were 27.5066 MFLOPS each. A Tesla K40 add-in card does between 1.43 Tflops and 4.29 Tflops, depending on double or single precision. That's over 54k times more flops in a single add-in card. It may be out of the reach of your average Joe, but it could be done with sufficient dedication.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cameron Crum" <cc...@wispmon.com> To: af@afmug.com Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2015 8:45:26 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] App for Wireless signal visualization? I don't know Mike, some of those systems used distributed computing on dozens of Spark 20s and still took hours to run. None of them were using really advanced models so straight propagation wasn't that bad, but the interference analysis, and simulation stuff is what really killed it. On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 7:44 AM, David < dmilho...@wletc.com > wrote: Thats called the RF goggle APP On 08/25/2015 07:42 PM, Mike Hammett wrote: <blockquote> I bet a modern high-end machine (with good software) could do it. Might need to add a Tesla (not the car) to it. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com From: "Cameron Crum" <cc...@wispmon.com> To: af@afmug.com Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2015 4:03:06 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] App for Wireless signal visualization? You could do it....just take thousands of iterations at various elevations. I remember when running Planet, Oddessy, Cellcad, Wizard, Athena, and CE4 back in the day and it taking hours on end just to do a few sites in 2D. I don't think a 3D plot would be done today...LOL. On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Brian Webster < i...@wirelessmapping.com > wrote: <blockquote> This is kind of cool. If RF tools actually propagated in 3 dimensions rather than just two dimensions on a flat map it would be fairly easy to develop an app like this to visualize in 3D. In fact it might even be possible to do in Google Earth. To generate 3D propagations would take a much greater length of time but would be very useful information for many things. Thank You, Brian Webster www.wirelessmapping.com www.Broadband-Mapping.com From: Af [mailto: af-boun...@afmug.com ] On Behalf Of Ty Featherling Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2015 10:42 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] App for Wireless signal visualization? It's a fictitious rendering of what it might look like, but still that is wicked cool. One day in my life maybe I will get to see RF Goggles but this is pretty neat. Apparently it just pulled from databases the locations of satellites, cell towers, and something else and maps them in 3d kind of like Google Sky does with planets and stars. It doesn't actively listen for RF and paint the picture. -Ty On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 6:37 AM, Gino Villarini < ginovi...@gmail.com > wrote: http://gizmodo.com/if-our-eyes-could-see-wireless-signals-heres-what-the-1726215792 </blockquote> </blockquote>
