Hardware Solutions
Below is a list of minimal hardware requirements. The amount of RAM is often the limiting factor, especially if you plan to deconvolve large images.
Huygens works on Linux, Mac OS, and Windows workstations. For all these platforms we have 64 bit multi-core Huygens versions available.
We offer advise on which types of workstation or server will be the best solution for your image processing, visualization and analysis. We can also help you to find the best way to upgrade a current system.
Benchmark Results are available to help you select the optimal solution.
The Huygens software adapts its display to the size of your monitor automatically and optimal display is possible with monitors with 700 or more lines. When taking the bars above and under into account a range of 760 pixels from top to bottom remains.
Depending on the image processing needs you can divide hardware systems in three categories depending on your microscope data coming from conventional widefield/confocal systems up to lightsheet/SPIM systems which produce large datasets:
Laptop systems may contain:
- AMD Ryzen 5 / Intel Core i5
- 8-16 Gb of RAM
- small GPU or medium GPU
Basic Desktop systems may contain:
- Intel i7 / Intel Xeon CPU
- 32 or 64Gb of RAM
- medium GPU
Workstations may contain:
- Dual Intel Xeon CPU
- 256Gb of RAM
- One or two large GPU
(Rack)Servers may contain:
- Dual Intel Xeon CPU
- 1TB of RAM
- More than one extreme GPU
GPU benchmark results can be found here.
Huygens runs excellently on servers with 8 Large GPU cards.
Please contact us if you need more advice.