that you could afford where I would define best as
1) fast duo core CPU - two duo-cores if you can afford them.
Fds Smv For Mac Osx
2) lots of memory, at least 3GB if you use a 32 bit OS and 1GB per core
if you have more than 2 cores,
Download Mac software in the Math/Scientific category - Page 7. FDS-SMV 6.2.3 Build 22541. A development support site for the Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS). FDS is an open source code for fire simulation in buildings developed at US NIST. We are evaluating the possibility of porting our project to Freecad, because we see of course much greater capabilities, in dealing with complex and precise geometries than Blender has. Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) is a computational model for the fire-driven fluid flow. Basically, it relies on the idea that fire can be studied numerically.
3) lots of hard drive space at least a couple of hundred GB's, You can
always supplement hard disk space later with external USB or e-sata drives.
4) OS that is 'best' supported by the FDS/Smokeview development team.
In my opinion this would be a Windows PC for Smokeview and a Windows PC
or Linux PC for FDS - unfortunately and again this is my opinion, though
the Mac has a lot of virtues it is not a good choice for FDS or
Smokeview for the simple reason that we do not develop FDS and Smokeview
on the Mac (or the Cray for that matter!) I develop Smokeview on a
Windows PC and FDS is developed on a Windows PC and a Linux PC (Kevin
can speak better to which platform he and others use more). So if there
are problem occuring on a Mac we have limited abilities to fix them.
(There was a period of several months last year when I couldn't even
build Smokeview on the Mac)
Fds Smv
For futher insight, go to the FDS - Smokeview download page under
http://fire.nist.gov/fds and see how many people are downloading which
versions of the software.
glenn
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Glenn Forney
National Institute of Standards and Technology
100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8663
Gaithersburg MD 20899-8663
Telephone: (301) 975 2313
FAX: (301) 975 4052
Reduce the time required to build complex models for the FDS (Fire Dynamics Simulator) from NIST. Import CAD models and use integrated parallel processing to speed analyses.
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