Build Specs

[ScottSnow13]

Hello,

I'm relatively new to Basilisk and have been diving through the documentation and forums. I had a question about the build specs for a machine to efficiently run the simulations, nothing blazing fast but also not stuttering. Does anyone know the minimum specs, like could it be run on a Raspberry PI 5 16GB board, or is that a pipe dream?

Thank you.

[loufla]

It depends on what you want to do, I'm also pretty new, but the issue I ran into was the RAM, as I think the DataLog saves the data in the RAM, limiting the duration of your simulation/number of datapoints you can save.

The workaround I found was to make incremental simulations (like in the BasicOrbitStream example) and publish the datapoints to a function that writes it in the storage of the system, not the RAM.

As for the CPU, I'm running it on a laptop and currently it only uses 2.5 GB of RAM and is pretty light on the CPU (<15%).

[ScottSnow13]

Thank you for the insight!