Huygens Server

64 bit

The Huygens has been a 64 bit software since the year 1999. As a matter of fact, SVI was the first commercial company which introduced a fully 64 bit computation in the deconvolution market. The Huygens Software has been running in 64 bit mode both on SGI Irix and IBM Aix servers since then.

Huygens 64 bit for Linux became available at the start of 2005 (from release 2.7) on Linux X86-64 machines, like Athlon64, Opteron and Xeon-EMT CPUs.

Huygens 64 bit for Windows (Vista or XP-64) is officially available since end 2007 (release 3.1).

Huygens 64 bit for Mac is already available for testing on MacOSX 10.5 "Leopard", both for Intel and PowerPC processors.

With the Huygens 64 bit you will be able to process even bigger datasets while the amount of addressed memory is not limited anymore as under 32 bit systems.

Software versions

The Huygens Linux distribution contains both the binaries for the 32 and the 64 bit platforms, and all of them are installed in /usr/local/svi/bin (or equivalent directory, depending on the platform). Both are multi-threaded.

The Huygens applications are launched with the initialization scripts: essential, huygenspro and huscript in /usr/local/svi/bin (or clicking on the icons) which start the proper binary.

Other platforms have specific 32 and 64 bit distributions, you have to download the appropriate one from our software download section.