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Before you begin with the installation, it is important to determine the configuration you wish to use.

This section describes the configurations to be applied to your RT-LAB system. RT-LAB makes a distinction between the computer or computers used for development, and the computer or computers used to run the simulation, although the same computer may be used for both development and simulation.

Definitions

Command Station

Development is always done on Windows. The computer used to run the RT-LAB user interface, design software including Simulink, and/or monitoring software such as Dashboard, is known as the Command Station. Users can include more than one Command Station in an RT-LAB system.

Target Nodes

The computers used to run your simulation are called target nodes, targets, or simulators. The Windows command station can be used simultaneously as a target node for slow pseudo-real-time purposes. For super-computer performance, RT-LAB can be set up using a network of multi-processor computers.