Raptor System Requirements

[Edilma Howard]

TheTemecula Valley Unified School District considers the safety of our students and staff a top priority. This year (spring 2019), we added a visitor management system to all of our campuses. Knowing who is on the campus and having an orderly check-in/out process is a key component of providing a safe environment on our school campuses. After careful consideration, we are pleased to announce that we will be using Raptor Technologies as our visitor management system.

If the visitor is a known, Uniformed, government employee, no. If the visitor is not a known, and Uniformed, government employee, yes. Again, this is to allow us to know who is in our schools at all times and to not assume people are who they say they are without providing proper identification. However, law enforcement personnel visiting campus on official business can be given the option to have their information entered manually by presenting their badge or state-issued identification.

The Raptor system strives to require as little information as possible from visitors while still being able to provide the school with the information needed to uniquely and accurately identify entrants and provide for enhanced safety at the school. The minimum information required is full name, date of birth, first four digits of ID, and photo. No other data is collected from the ID and no copy of the ID is taken.

The district owns the data created by its use of the Raptor system (all visitor data, custom alerts, visitor logs, etc.). Raptor maintains ownership of the software and the sex offender database (used by all Raptor clients). Raptor does not use the data except as requested by the client (i.e., to create a custom report, etc.). The district may at any time terminate its relationship with Raptor and request that all data provided by TVUSD be copied to storage media and returned to the district or destroyed. In such an event, no backup or other copies will be maintained by Raptor. Raptor does not sell any client or demographic data to any outside entity and does not use that data for any purpose other than visitor management for TVUSD schools.

Raptor Technologies utilizes some of the most advanced technology for Internet security available. Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology protects the data using both server authentication and data encryption, ensuring that the data is secure and only available to the subscribing school or facility. The protected data is inaccessible to anyone not authorized to view the information. Strict access policies, 256-bit encryption, firewalls, and private secure bandwidth are in use to ensure the highest standards for our security requirements. Data is stored on the Raptor servers behind a firewall which requires a unique ID and password, through an operating system, which requires a second unique ID and password, and inside a database which requires a third unique ID and password.

Raptor Technologies, Inc. (Raptor) warrants that the confidentiality of data from our clients will be maintained according to all Federal and State laws, and any local policies that are communicated to us. Raptor acts as an agent and representative for the client in the storage, import, and/or analysis of data. Access to personally identifiable data will not be allowed for anyone other than Raptor staff directly responsible for the storage, import, and/or analysis of the data. Data will be provided by Raptor only to persons or entities authorized by the client. Data will be used by Raptor only according to the terms of our signed agreements.

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We are a Structural Engineering office using Archicad for many many years now. We built our workstations in 2016 following the AC19 and AC20 system requirements on Graphisoft's website and the workstations worked well enough for many many years, but it is finally time to build a new one as the old ones are not strong enough. Over the years we learned a few things, but the 2 main things are related to the CPU and Graphics card.

We work a lot with imported IFC and REVIT models and we noticed that for a lot of the operations that are related to the imported models Archicad uses only 1 core or sometimes only 1 thread from the CPU. Since it is the same in AC27 we ended up with the conclusion that speed/core is more important than the number of cores. If any of the people here could recommend an intel CPU (i7 or i9) we would greatly appreciate it.

Since we don't render any photos we found that the current NVIDIA Quadro graphics card is overpriced and often not strong enough to navigate in 3D (that has imported models of large projects). I would greatly appreciate any recommendations for a graphics card that could help.

Although I am more of a CAD technician than an IT professional I do build my own PCs for home and work so I did come up with a possible new build back in October 2023. Please check it and let me know if you would replace any parts:

You could try to run those workarounds in the videos and see if it makes a difference. Try to turn on the shadows to "overload" the 3d window, and you might have a 3x FPS increase. I can get 144fps with my setup, even on complicated scenes. Again, Graphisoft does not seem interested that this is possible.

I strongly doubt the Quadro has any benefit here, from what I understand it is for more niche applications. I would just stick to the normal gamer cards. More powerful for cheaper. I use a 3090, which is kind of the minimum for my work in Unreal Engine. That actually utilises the card and the VRAM 100%.

With regards to 2d, you can also play around with the drawing infrastructure in regedit. This can perform differently under different scenarios.

Open Registry Editor and navigate to Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\GRAPHISOFT\ARCHICAD\Archicad 26.0.0 INT RC1\Graphix

Change the RenderingAPI value data from 0 to -1

Even with my specs, my performance leaves quite a lot to be desired in 2d. I am still not quite clear how plan performance relates to the CPU and GPU. Graphisoft have not provided much clarity around this topic and I am not sure they understand it themselves.

I run an i9-13900KF, and while it is a nice CPU there are some serious issues with it. My CPU should basically be RMA, but I haven't gone through that step because it would be debilitating. Keep in mind that the CPU uses turboboost which boosts the speed of the CPU's fastest cores. This does get utilised in Archicad so it should result in better performance. The issue is that it can sometime result in Archicad crashes in 3d to desktop, as well as many other applications. This is actually considered a hardware fault, stock settings are not supposed to do this. It gets very hot as well. The workaround is to set all Active Turbo Ratios to manual at x54 in BIOS. I have also adjusted my voltages. Only worth changing all this if you are running into crashes. My setup at the moment seems pretty stable and it's still very fast, so I think it's ok. In a program like Unreal Engine, it utilises those multiple cores to compile shaders and operations like that. I went up from an old 8 core i7, and the difference is very nice.

You can also reach out to me privately if you want me to test any files in advance, given that my hardware configuration is pretty similar. Practically all my projects run close to the 144fps mark, including projects with lots of Revit IFC geometry, but only after the workaround.

- I would go for the latest gen CPU, specifically, either the 14900K or the 14900KF for a bit less if you do not need an integrated GPU in your CPU, which you might not want if you will have such a strong dedicated GPU card.

- Unfortunately, it is true that the core functions of BIM applications, including Archicad, can utilize multi-core CPUs only till a certain point and so will give the best performance with CPUs with the highest single-core performance (except for a few scenarios where multi-core performance can be utilized very well, like rendering), which is why I would recommend the 14900K, which has single-core speed of 6.0 MHz max.

- I see you have selected a motherboard that supports PCIe 5.0, but you have not selected either a PCIe 5.0 GPU (none exists today) or a PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD. So, a PCIe 5.0 motherboard makes sense only if you plan to upgrade to these later. Otherwise, you can do with a motherboard that supports PCIe 4.0, which is much cheaper.

Thank you so much for the long and very detailed comment. A few of my friends recommended AMD and one of them has a 2 years old AMD machine. He will do a test for me. Depending on the test I might consider recommending AMD. I was told there is a significant price difference between AMD and Intel.

Another friend of mine sent me a link to a benchmark site, which I found very useful for our problem.

There are other pages for other parts, so this might be the most helpful link for those who are considering building a new PC and want to compare it to their current one.

I am one of those moderately professional users who are not afraid to use the Registry Editor, however, I try to do it only when it feels necessary. So first we will build the new PC and will see how it works.

Thank you for your advice.

There is a significant difference in price, but if we overlook that and focus on to build a PC that is good for another 6 years at least, which one would be more reliable? I know it is hard to answer such a question since the technology is continuously advancing so I am just curious about your opinion.

Thank you for the advice about the motherboard. This reminds me that I wanted to use M.2 NVMe SSD instead of the normal SSD. It made a noticeable difference in performance when we replaced the old SSD to the M.2 about 3 years ago.

I have very good experience with the AMD processor. I built my rig in 2017, used a Ryzen7 1700X CPU and it served me well for over 6 years now. I just recently upgraded it to a Ryzen 5900X, when I realized that my motherboard manufacturer recently released a BIOS upgrade that lets me use 5000-series Ryzens in my motherboard since those CPUs still use the AM4 socket. (The 7000-series uses a newer AM5 socket). So now, with a new CPU and new faster RAM, I have 2-3 more years before I need to buy a new machine. This was really great news for me because I was about to put together a new PC that has PCIe 5.0 components, including the motherboard, NVMe SSD, and GPU (actually, no PCIe 5.0 GPUs exist at the moment, but the motherboard supports it), but I found the technology is still very expensive, although provides great performance increases. Now I am happy I have a pretty fast machine for a few more years, and when it is time for me to build a new rig, PCIe 5.0 will be mainstream and will be reasonably priced.

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