System Requirements for
Discovery Studio 2017 R2
The following sections cover the system requirements for Discovery Studio:
Supported Operating Systems
| Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 |
64 bit |
+ |
+*
|
| Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 |
32 bit |
+ |
|
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 |
64 bit |
|
+ |
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 |
64 bit |
+ |
+* |
| Microsoft Windows 10 |
64 bit |
+ |
|
| Microsoft Windows 2012 Server R2 |
64 bit |
|
+ |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux v6.3+ |
64 bit |
+ |
+ |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux v7 |
64 bit |
+ |
+ |
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 |
64 bit |
|
+ |
* The server has not been fully validated but there are no known issues reported when running in a single user environment. It is not recommended for multiple users.
Processor and RAM Requirements
- Processor: An Intel-compatible processor ≥2 GHz with x86_64 architecture is required.
- RAM: A minimum of 8 GB of memory.
Additional RAM will allow you to work with more and larger systems.
Disk Space Requirements
The following table gives approximate space requirements for Discovery Studio. The databases are optional but provide additional capabilities when installed.
| Discovery Studio Client |
1 GB |
| AEP Server with DS Component Collections |
15 GB |
| Antibody Database (redundant structures) |
3 GB |
| BLAST Database |
80 GB |
| PharmaDB |
5 GB |
Supported Graphics Cards
The following graphics cards are supported for the client. Cards that are certified have been validated with Discovery Studio. Non-certified cards are expected to work with Discovery Studio, but have not been tested. See Supported Graphics Card Drivers below for a list of supported drivers.
Note the following:
- Some ATI drivers are known to have problems when DS is run as an administrator (root).
- Limited testing has been run on Intel graphics cards on Windows. Some of these cards do not support all features used by Discovery Studio. The Optimize Graphics Setting startup option will detect this and disable those features.
| ATI FirePro V4900 |
mid |
+ (Win) |
|
| ATI FirePro V5900 |
mid |
|
|
| ATI FirePro V7900 |
high |
|
|
| AMD FirePro W5000 |
mid |
+ (Win) |
|
| AMD FirePro W8000 |
high |
|
+ |
| AMD FirePro W2100 |
basic |
+ (Win) |
+ |
| AMD FirePro W4100 |
mid |
|
+ |
| AMD FirePro W5100 |
mid |
+ (Win) |
+ |
| AMD FirePro W7100 |
high |
|
+ |
| AMD Radeon Pro WX4100 |
mid |
|
|
| AMD Radeon Pro WX5100 |
mid |
+ (Win) |
|
| AMD Radeon Pro WX7100 |
high |
|
|
| NVIDIA Quadro 600 |
basic |
+ |
|
| NVIDIA Quadro K620 |
basic |
|
|
| NVIDIA Quadro 2000/K2000 |
mid |
+ |
+ (Win only) |
| NVIDIA Quadro K2200 |
mid |
+ |
|
| NVIDIA Quadro 4000/K4000 |
high |
|
+ |
| NVIDIA Quadro K5000 |
high |
|
+ |
| NVIDIA Quadro 6000 |
ultra high |
|
+ |
| NVIDIA Quadro M4000 |
mid |
|
+ |
| NVIDIA Quadro M5000 |
high |
+ |
+ |
| NVIDIA Quadro M6000 |
ultra high |
|
+ |
Supported Graphics Card Drivers
Supported Grid Systems
If you are planning to install on a grid, BIOVIA Pipeline Pilot 2017 R2 supports the following grid system versions:
- Univa Grid Engine (UGE) 8.2.0
- PBS Professional 13.1.0
- Platform LSF 9.1
Additional Software Requirements
System Libraries (Linux)
Certain system libraries may be required for the correct operation of Discovery Studio. To automatically detect which libraries may be required for your system, run the check_system.sh script, available on the Discovery Studio distribution. For details, see Required System Libraries.
BLAST
The BLAST Search (DS server) and PSI-BLAST Search protocols require a separately installed BLAST database, which can be downloaded from the Download Center. For more details regarding the extraction and installation of the databases, see the installation instructions on the Download Center or the help topic "Installing databases for BLAST Search (DS server) and PSI-BLAST Search".
GNOME Desktop (Linux)
The Discovery Studio Client is optimized for the GNOME Desktop. We recommend that you install and configure this software, which is available on your Linux distribution media. Note that KDE Desktop is also supported.
