Recent content by doctor_of_physics

Thank you all for taking the time to respond to my messages. I am looking into creating some addons eventually so the SDK should really come in handy...(Handy Smurf there's another one) I haven't had a look at the SDK or the Application Programming Interface yet, but I have plans on researching...

Astrosmurf I remember that episode where Dreamy Smurf wanted to go to space. :) Thanks for your advice as well. I haven't had an opportunity to have a look at the SDK yet but from what I was told it is a closed source program which means the source code isn't available. Without the source code I...

I agree, I've watched Orbiter evolve over the years (since 2006-2007 when I was informed about the simulator by a colleague). Even in the 200x release it had awesome graphics and now it is stunning even without the high resolution texture addons. I guess I was just throwing an idea out there...

Hello, Yes, STK and Treecode are good and there are many others. I didn't relay my thoughts correctly. I wasn't planning on using Orbiter for NBODY calculations and simulations. What I meant was model complexity and the physics calculations that Orbiter performs brings the bigger systems to...

I've been playing with Orbiter since 2006 and have been very impressed with every aspect of the program including the attention to detail, it's ability to simulate many aspects (if not all) of gravitational attractions, perturbations, velocity calculations, etc. We have truly come so very far...

Thanks for responding. I was thinking that support for OpenMP could be developed and the same for SMP support. Yes, sadly, IRIX was dropped along with SGI'S MIPS line of workstations and servers in 07-08 when the switched away from MIPS to IA64. I'm running the last release 6.5.30 It was a sad...

Hello, Thanks for letting me know this. I wasn't sure if it was open source or closed source. That clears that up. Do you think the Orbiter programming team would be willing to undertake such a task? It would open the simulator up to running on massively parallel systems via NUMA Link and CRAY...

Hello Everyone, Has anyone tried porting Orbiter to run on SGI hardware such as an Octane 2 or Fuel? Maybe even an Onyx or Tezro? These workstations and servers run an operating system called IRIX and they utilize a MIPS processor for those of you who are not familiar. I just wanted to ask to...