Operating System Requirements
Linux or Unix operating systems (Note that Mac OSX is based on Unix)
For example:
Debian GNU Linux
Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u3 (2016-01-17) x86_64 GNU/Linux
Hardware Requirements
RAM Requirements:
8GB
Disk Space Requirements:
5GB (mainly for keeping an optional output data archive)
CPU Requirements
The solar power conversion process can easily process a single farm in less than 0.2 seconds on the following machine (no parallelization):
Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 8
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-7
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 4
Socket(s): 2
NUMA node(s): 1
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
CPU family: 6
Model: 23
Model name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5440 @ 2.83GHz
Stepping: 10
CPU MHz: 2826.182
BogoMIPS: 5652.48
Virtualization: VT-x
L1d cache: 32K
L1i cache: 32K
L2 cache: 6144K
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-7
NOTE: The solar power conversion process should run on comparable Intel I7 processors found in current laptops and pc's.