Discovery System Recommendations

You must install Studio on Windows to access the Discovery user interface. The recommended TDV Server system configuration for using Discovery is listed below.

System Requirement

Description

Processor recommendations
• Recommended processor—Intel Core i7 CPU 920 @2.67GHZ eight core
• Minimum processor—Intel Xeon 5110 CPU @1.60 GHz quad core

Disk space

• Recommended—32 GB
• Minimum—16 GB

Physical memory for TDV
• Recommended RAM—16 GB
• Minimum RAM—8 GB

The physical memory requirements listed here are exclusively for running TDV and do not include the memory you might need to run non-TDV applications.

Operating system platforms
• Windows 64-bit
• Linux 64-bit

The Discovery user interface is an integral part of Studio and must be installed on a Windows platform. However, you can install TDV and its repository on any supported UNIX platform.

Studio memory

• Default RAM—768 MB
• Recommended minimum RAM for Studio with Discovery—512 MB

This setting is defined in the <TDV_install_dir>\bin\studio.bat file. The parameter that defines Studio RAM is MAX_MEMORY. For large relationship models, this value needs to be 512MB or larger.