What hardware to run Huygens on Linux or Windows?
We recommend good quality hardware like HP/Compaq, IBM, Dell. We have seen problems with cheap Intel systems and not so cheap systems with AMD Athlon processors. These problems are most likely caused by inadequate power supplies and cooling.
Huygens is fully 64 bit for all our OSes (Windows, Mac, Linux). When it's budgetary possible it might be good to consider 8 GB of memory per 2 or 4 threads or cores. You can scale that up according to your data through-put. (so 2-4 threads -> 8 GB, 4-8 threads ->16GB etc)
The rule of thumb for your data through-put: 3 times as much FREE memory as the data-size.
Which graphical card you choose is irrelevant as all the processing is done directly on the processors. So no need to spend money on that. Currently the Xeon processors are fast and the price performance relation is really good.
Keywords: Linux RAM AMD IBM Dell
Categories: Faq Platforms, Huygens Faq, Imported Faqs
Platforms: Linux Windows<br>
Related products: Hu Ess Hu Pro
