Hardware Requirements

64-bit Intel® or AMD ™ x86_64 processor architecture.

1024 MBytes (1 GByte) main memory, with 2048 MBytes (2 GBytes) or more preferred.

At least one Gigabit Ethernet Network Interface Controller on each compute node.

Preferably two Gigabit Ethernet Network Interface Controllers on the master node.

A Gigabit network switch for the private cluster network.

Optional: An Infiniband network infrastructure for compute nodes. Infiniband controllers must use the Mellanox ™ chipset.