Questions and Answers : Windows : Client requirements for various WU's
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Message 28654 - Posted: 25 Jan 2017, 4:54:41 UTC

In Q&A it would be great to have a post pinned that describes the RAM, hard drive and CPU cores usage of the various WUs from ALICE to vLHC.

New users and people who only have done sixtrack, could be well served when making choices of what to run instead of having headaches when they choose all jobs and run into issues.
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Message 28682 - Posted: 27 Jan 2017, 3:06:14 UTC
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When planning on the number of WU's to run on your client, add 256MB overhead per each work unit due to Virtual Box wrapper and headless management for Theory, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb.
Note that Sixtrack doesn't use Virtual Box.

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Message 28666 - Posted: 25 Jan 2017, 18:08:43 UTC

Here are the memory and disk requirements for running a single task of an application.

Sixtrack
Requires 512MB of RAM and 1GB of free hard disk space.

Theory
Requires 630MB of RAM and 3GB of free hard disk space ( 0.8GB uncompressed disk image size ) plus ~1GB of RAM overhead for the host operating system.

ATLAS
Requires 1.4GB of RAM and 4GB of free hard disk space ( 2.2GB uncompressed disk image size ) plus ~1GB of RAM overhead for the host operating system.

CMS
Requires 2GB of RAM and 4GB of free hard disk space ( 1.7GB uncompressed disk image size ) plus ~1GB of RAM overhead for the host operating system.

LHCb
Requires 2GB of RAM and 8GB of free hard disk space ( 3.9GB uncompressed disk image size ) plus ~1GB of RAM overhead for the host operating system
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