add-sim-box-mix

ACTIVE BUILD

Rigor: architecture

Why

The live mix is designed as everything resident at 30 fps. fractal1’s 3090 cannot do that — 24 GB + 16 GB host — so it swaps one slot at a time and goes slowly. The same software streams realtime on a rented RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server 96 GB or on a local T4000. Truck 6000 stays quality / overnight. Cartridge costs need those four envelopes, not one Thor column.

What

• Four-box table: Thor T4000, fractal1 3090, RunPod PRO 6000 96 GB, truck 6000
• Named perception slots (depth, names, track, matte, body pose, camera pose)
• Residency policy: T4000 and PRO 6000 keep slots resident; 3090 swaps
• Quant / pack rows: SMALL on T4000, LARGE on 6000; 3090 loads SMALL
• Name the 30 fps lab SKU in VIDEO-PERCEPTION
• Keep docs/3090-SIM.md as the derate home and name the emulator role
• Feeds add-cartridge-model catalog costs

Impact

• Capabilities: MODIFIED hardware-kit (envelopes + residency)
• Product docs in web3d-space (HARDWARE.md, MODELS.md, VIDEO-PERCEPTION.md)
• ADRs: none

User journey & surfaces

No new UI because this is envelope tables in HARDWARE / MODELS / VIDEO-PERCEPTION and the existing 3090-SIM derate page.

Out of scope

• Renting the RunPod SKU (brief-runpod-30fps)
• VDA-S / RTMPose on fractal1 (add-3090-live-stages)
• Pose-net SHALLs (add-pose-depth-until-lidar)
• Implementing the packer (add-cartridge-pack)
• Treating 3090 as a T4000 TOPS proxy
• Terminating negotiated-gpu-*