Microsoft Windows Vista, Business and Enterprise Editions, SP1
32 bit
+
+
Microsoft Windows 7, SP1
64 bit
+
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2
64 bit
+
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 4.0, Updates 4-7
32 bit
+
+
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0, Updates 4-7
64 bit
+
+
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Retail, Updates 1-7
64 bit
+
+
+
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0*
64 bit
+
+
SUSE® Linux Enterprise 10, SP2
64 bit
+
+
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
64 bit
+
* Queuing systems, public and private clusters, grids (LSF, PBS, SGE), and parallel computing has not been validated for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0.
Processor and RAM Requirements
Processor: An Intel-compatible ≥2 GHz with x86 or x86_64 architecture is required
(Intel or AMD).
RAM: A minimum of 2 GB of memory
for Discovery Studio Client and 2 GB for the Pipeline Pilot Server. Ideally, a total of 4 GB should be available if the client and server are installed on the same machine.
Disk Space Requirements
Basic Installation
Module
Windows
32 bit Linux
64 bit Linux
Discovery Studio Client
500 MB
900 MB
N/A
Pipeline Pilot with DS Component Collections
2.8 GB
3.5 GB
4.4 GB
License Pack
105 MB
200 MB
N/A
Total
3.4 GB
4.6 GB
4.4 GB
Additional Modules
Additional space is required if you plan to install the standalone applications separately and/or need to install Blast and Modeler databases for Protein Modeling and Sequence Analysis.
Module
Windows
32 bit Linux
64 bit Linux
Standalone Applications
500 MB
800 MB
N/A
BLAST Database
8.7 GB
8.7 GB
N/A
Modeler Database
23.1 GB
23.1 GB
N/A
Supported Graphics Cards
The following graphics cards are supported. 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: Some ATI drivers are known to have problems when DS is run as an administrator (root).
If you are planning to install on a grid, Pipeline Pilot 8.5 supports the following grid system versions:
Sun Grid Engine (SGE) 6.1
PBS Professional 9.2
Platform LSF 7.00 Update 3
Additional Software Requirements
BLAST and profile databases
The BLAST Search (DS server) and PSI-BLAST Search protocols require a separately installed BLAST database. Scan Sequence Profiles requires a separately installed profile database. For details, see Installing databases for BLAST Search (DS server) and PSI-BLAST Search and Installing and configuring a profile database.
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.
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.
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