Omicsoft Knowledge Base

Knowledgebase Home | Glossary | Favorites | Contact | Login Knowledgebase Home | Glossary | Favorites | Tutorials | Sample Data | White Papers | Customer Support | Contact
Search the Knowledgebase Browse by Category

[Advanced Search]
What are the hardware / software requirements for Array Server?
Article Details

Last Updated
31st of March, 2011
Would you like to...
Print this page Print this page
Email this page Email this page
Post a comment Post a comment
Subscribe me
Add to favorites Add to favorites
Remove Highlighting Remove Highlighting
Edit this Article Edit this Article
Edit this Article Quick Edit
Export to PDF
User Opinions (5 votes)
100% thumbs up 0% thumbs down
How would you rate this answer?
Helpful
Not helpful
Array Server works with the client software (Array Viewer or Array Studio) to provide structural data repository, search and integration. To maximize the user experience, Omicsoft recommend the following hardware configuration for our server customers.

Item 2-5
concurrent users		 6-10
concurrent users		 10+
concurrent users
Operating system Any major OS Windows or Linux Windows or Linux
Required windows version (for windows server) Windows 2000 or above Windows 2000 or above Windows 2000 server or above
CPU 1-4 CPUs (1.8G+) 4-8 CPUs (1.8G+) 8-16 CPUs (1.8G+)
Memory *1
 2G+ *1
 3G+ 4G+ recommended
Storage type IDE 5400+ rpm 2 or file server File server recommended File server recommended
Storage space 100G+ * 2 *3 200 GB+ * 2 400 GB+ * 2
Networking *4 1 GbE NIC 1 GbE NIC 1 GbE NIC













*1 Memory required was first dependent on the numbers of platforms, then dependent on the projects on the server
*2 Most of the 10k+ rpm IDE hard drives (or SCSI drives) have a maximal capacity 400GB.
*3 Two hard drives are required for backup purpose. We suggest a backup at least every week. If one hard drive fails, it only takes one simple configuration change to connect the server to the other hard drive.
*4 Networking speed between server and clients are largely dependent on the server upload/download speed.
Other Requirements / Suggestions:
1. The performance of the server is largely determined by the I/O speed. Therefore, we do not recommend USB external hard drives. Local hard drives or file servers are strongly recommended. File servers with parallel I/O support will have the best performance.
2. We recommend incremental backup because most of the data managed by the server will not be changed after publishing.
3. For Array Server v. 5.0, Microsoft PowerPoint must be installed.
Related Articles
No related articles were found.
Attachments
No attachments were found.

Knowledge Management Software by Interspire