System requirements
The system requirements of
CLC Server are:
Server operating system
- Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows Server 2008.
- Mac OS X 10.7 or later.
- Linux: Red Hat 5 or later. SUSE 10.2 or later. Fedora 6 or later.
- The CLC Server and its backends, including the CLC Server job nodes and the grid nodes, must run on the same type of operating system.
Server hardware requirements
- Intel or AMD CPU required
- Computer power: 2 cores required. 8 cores recommended.
- Memory: 4 GB RAM required. 16 GB RAM recommended.
- Disk space: 500 GB required. More needed if large amounts of data are analyzed.
Special memory requirements for working with genomes
A 64-bit computer and operating system is necessary if you wish to utilize more than 2 GB RAM.
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: 4 GB RAM
- Recommended: 8 GB RAM
- Zebrafish ( 1.5 gigabases)
- Minimum: 8 GB RAM
- Recommended: 16 GB RAM
- Human ( 3.2 gigabases) and Mouse ( 2.7 gigabases)
- Minimum: 24 GB RAM
- Recommended: 48 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://www.clcbio.com/white-paper for examples of the memory usage of various data sets.