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.
Solaris 10
- Memory and Disk Space
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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
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X11, the X window system.
- OpenGL
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ChIPS requires OpenGL, an interface for system graphics. Solaris users may not have this installed by default.
- gtar
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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
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The GNU zip package.
Linux
The 32-bit build of CIAO requires the basic 32-bit libraries to be installed, as explained in the Installing 32-bit CIAO on 64-bit Machines section of the Platform Support page.
- 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. OpenGL is part of the xlibs development package.
- gzip
-
The GNU zip package.
Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
The 32-bit build of CIAO requires the basic 32-bit libraries to be installed, as explained in the Installing 32-bit CIAO on 64-bit Machines section of the Platform Support page.
- 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 users should use the version of X11 that came with the operating system.
- OpenGL
-
ChIPS requires OpenGL, an interface for system graphics. OpenGL is included in the Apple Developer tools.
- gzip
-
The GNU zip package.
Mac OS X 10.4 PowerPC
- Memory and Disk Space
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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 users should use the version of X11 that came with the operating system.
- OpenGL
-
ChIPS requires OpenGL, an interface for system graphics. OpenGL is included in the Apple Developer tools.
- gzip
-
The GNU zip package.