System requirements
Supported computer systems
Both single and multiple (SMP) CPU systems are supported. The
software is multithreaded (using pthreads), allowing efficient
use on SMP
servers with multiple microprocessors. Clusters and other systems
that communicate using the Message Passing Interface (MPI)
standard are also supported.
Supported microprocessors and operating systems
SENCEL PARALIGN™ has been designed to work
with the following combinations of operating systems and microprocessors:
Operating system |
Microprocessors |
Linux kernel 2.4 (i386)
or later |
Intel Pentium MMX, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium 4,
Celeron, Xeon or Xeon MP.
AMD K6, K6-2, K6-III, Duron, Athlon, Athlon XP, Athlon MP,
Athlon 4.
|
Linux kernel 2.4 (x86_64)
or later |
AMD Athlon 64, Opteron. * |
Linux kernel 2.4 (IA64)
or later |
Intel Itanium 2 |
Linux kernel 2.4 (PPC64)
or later |
IBM PowerPC 970 |
HP-UX 11i version 2
or later |
Intel Itanium 2 |
Mac OS X version 10.2
or later |
Motorola PowerPC G4
IBM PowerPC G5 (970) |
HP Tru64 Unix version 5.1 or later |
HP Alpha 21264 EV6 or later |
* Only 32-bit executables of PARALIGN are currently available
for the AMD 64-bit processors.
Disk and memory requirements
The software itself does not need more than a few megabytes of
storage. However, you will need disk space for the databases,
which
can be rather large. The programs work best if you have enough
memory (RAM) in the computer to hold all the sequence information
from
the database in memory. Note that the nucleotide databases are
stored on disk and in RAM in a compressed form, requiring only
about one byte
for every four nucleotides.
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