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System Requirements

Platform HPC

System Requirements

Platform HPC Enterprise Edition
Operating System Support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 and 6.1 x86 64 bit
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 x86 64 bit
Scientific Linux 5.5 x86 64 bit
CentOS 5.6 x86 64 bit
Installer Node/Head Node Minimum Requirements 2 GB of physical memory (RAM)
80 GB of free disk space
Two Ethernet interfaces.(public network and compute node connections)
DVD drive
Compute Node Minimum Requirements for Package-based Installation 1 GB of physical memory (RAM)
40 GB of free disk space
One Ethernet interface
Compute Node Minimum Requirements for Image-based Installation 3 GB of physical memory (RAM)
40 GB of free disk space
One Ethernet interface
Compute Node Minimum Requirements for Diskless Installation 4 GB of physical memory (RAM)
One Ethernet interface
Compute Node Minimum Requirements without using Platform HPC provisioning 512 MB of physical memory (RAM)
10 GB of free disk space
One Ethernet interface
Max Number of Compute Nodes Platform HPC Workgroup: 32 nodes
Platform HPC Enterprise: Unlimited
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