System Requirements

CIAO is supported on a number of operating systems, which are listed on the Platform Support page. Certain system requirements are necessary to successfully install and run CIAO.

The CIAO binaries are built for 32-bit machines. In order to run CIAO on a 64-bit machine, regardless of operating system, the basic 32-bit libraries must be installed. A list of required libraries is available in the 64-bit Machines section of the Platform Support page.

Solaris 8

Memory and Disk Space

Chandra data files are large, which implies that certain processing and analysis operations will work more efficiently when they have access to large amounts of RAM. We recommend a minimum of 500Mb main memory and disk space on the order of 1-2 GB.

X11R6

X11, the X window system.

OpenGL

ChIPS requires OpenGL, an interface for system graphics. Solaris users may not have this installed by default.

gtar

The GNU tar package. Solaris users must use GNU tar (usually aliased to "gtar") to unpack the tarfiles. If native Solaris tar is used, some of the test filenames will be truncated.

gzip

The GNU zip package.

Solaris 10

Memory and Disk Space

Chandra data files are large, which implies that certain processing and analysis operations will work more efficiently when they have access to large amounts of RAM. We recommend a minimum of 500Mb main memory and disk space on the order of 1-2 GB.

X11R6

X11, the X window system.

OpenGL

ChIPS requires OpenGL, an interface for system graphics. Solaris users may not have this installed by default.

gtar

The GNU tar package. Solaris users must use GNU tar (usually aliased to "gtar") to unpack the tarfiles. If native Solaris tar is used, some of the test filenames will be truncated.

gzip

The GNU zip package.

Fedora Core 4

Memory and Disk Space

Chandra data files are large, which implies that certain processing and analysis operations will work more efficiently when they have access to large amounts of RAM. We recommend a minimum of 500Mb main memory and disk space on the order of 1-2 GB.

X11R6

X11, the X window system.

OpenGL

ChIPS requires OpenGL, an interface for system graphics.

gzip

The GNU zip package.

Fedora Core 8

Memory and Disk Space

Chandra data files are large, which implies that certain processing and analysis operations will work more efficiently when they have access to large amounts of RAM. We recommend a minimum of 500Mb main memory and disk space on the order of 1-2 GB.

X11R6

X11, the X window system.

gfortran

The Fedora Core 8 build requires the GNU Fortran compiler.

OpenGL

ChIPS requires OpenGL, an interface for system graphics.

gzip

The GNU zip package.

Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 Intel

Memory and Disk Space

Chandra data files are large, which implies that certain processing and analysis operations will work more efficiently when they have access to large amounts of RAM. We recommend a minimum of 500Mb main memory and disk space on the order of 1-2 GB.

X11R6

X11, the X window system. OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and 10.5 (Leopard) users should use the version of X11 that came with the operating system.

OpenGL

ChIPS requires OpenGL, an interface for system graphics.

gzip

The GNU zip package.

Mac OS X 10.4 PowerPC

Memory and Disk Space

Chandra data files are large, which implies that certain processing and analysis operations will work more efficiently when they have access to large amounts of RAM. We recommend a minimum of 500Mb main memory and disk space on the order of 1-2 GB.

X11R6

X11, the X window system. OS X 10.4 (Tiger) users should use the version of X11 that came with the operating system.

OpenGL

ChIPS requires OpenGL, an interface for system graphics.

gzip

The GNU zip package.