System requirements
The system requirements of
CLC Server are:
Server operating system
- Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 or Windows Server 2012
- Mac OS X 10.9, 10.10, 10.11 and 10.12
- Linux: RHEL 6.0 and later, SUSE 13.1 and later
- 64 bit
- For CLC Server setups that include job nodes and grid nodes, those nodes must run the same type of operating system as the master CLC Server
Server hardware requirements
- Intel or AMD CPU required
- Computer power: 2 cores required. 8 cores recommended.
- Memory: CLC Genomics Server: 4 GB RAM required, 16 GB RAM recommended. Biomedical Genomics Server Extension requires 16 GB RAM at least.
- Disk space: 500 GB required. More needed if large amounts of data are analyzed.
Special memory requirements for working with genomes
The numbers below give minimum and recommended amounts for systems running mapping and analysis tasks. The requirements suggested are based on the genome size.
- E. coli K12 (4.6 megabases)
- Minimum: 2 GB RAM
- Recommended: 4 GB RAM
- C. elegans (100 megabases) and Arabidopsis thaliana (120 megabases)
- Minimum: 2 GB RAM
- Recommended: 4 GB RAM
- Zebrafish (1.5 gigabases)
- Minimum: 2 GB RAM
- Recommended: 4 GB RAM
- Human (3.2 gigabases) and Mouse (2.7 gigabases)
- Minimum: 6 GB RAM
- Recommended: 8 GB RAM
Special requirements for de novo assembly
De novo assembly may need more memory than stated above - this depends both on the number of reads and the complexity and size of the genome. See http://resources.qiagenbioinformatics.com/white-papers/White_paper_on_de_novo_assembly_4.pdf for examples of the memory usage of various data sets.
Special requirement for the shared filesystem used by the job node setup or grid integration
The file locking mechanism is required to ensure that all nodes see the latest version of the data stored on the shared filesystem.