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Hardware Recommendations

You can install and run VIVO on most modern PC, laptop, or server hardware. Whilst the application layer needs a reasonable amount of memory, the majority of the workload is placed on the storage layers, which as a semantic web application means the triple store. As VIVO aims to be agnostic to the triple store, the precise requirements will depend on your choice of triple store. However, the default configuration is to use Jena SDB backed by MySQL - in this setup, it is recommended that you have very high IO bandwidth for the file system used by MySQL, and significant memory for caching layers of the database engine.

Minimum Specification

2 core x64 processor, 2GB RAM, 100GB HDD

Recommended Specification

4 core x64 processor, 16GB RAM, 500GB SSD

Note: I/O performance for MySQL is critical to the responsiveness of the application. The fastest SSD you can specify will help, as will having direct (e.g. not virtualised) access to it.

Prerequisite Software

Operating System

Java 7 or later

Maven 3.0.3 or later

MySQL / MariaDB 5.5 or later

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