Server

Operating Systems

Supported Operating System Notes

Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows Server 2016

Unsupported Operating Systems by Module

All modules support the Windows operating systems listed in the previous section.

Disk Space

New Installation Upgrade
  • The disk where you are installing Spectrum™ Technology Platform must have 4 GB of free space to install all modules, less if installing fewer modules.
  • The disk where the temp folder is located must have at least 10 GB of free space for the installation to extract the files it needs. You may need more depending on the options you are installing. If necessary, modify your TEMP environment variable (Windows) or IATEMPDIR environment variable (Unix and Linux) to point to a location with enough space.
  • The disk where you are installing Spectrum™ Technology Platform must have free disk space equal to three times the size of your current installation. To determine the size of your current installation, look at the size of the folder where you installed Spectrum™ Technology Platform.
  • If you are adding modules as part of your upgrade, you will need 3 GB to install all modules, less if installing fewer modules.
  • The disk where the temp folder is located must have 10 GB of free space plus four times the size of your current installation. For example, if your current installation is 5 GB, you would need 30 GB of temp space: (4 x 5 GB) + 10 GB = 30 GB. If necessary, modify your TEMP environment variable (Windows) or IATEMPDIR environment variable (Unix and Linux) to point to a location with enough space.
Note: If you are installing a module that uses a reference database, such as a postal database, geocoding database, or data normalization tables, you will need space for this data. The total disk space varies, depending on which modules and databases you are installing.

Memory

  • Basic memory requirement: 16 GB
  • The Data Normalization Module and Universal Name Module require additional memory if you use these name databases:
    • Arabic Plus Pack: 5.5 GB
    • Asian Plus Pack - Chinese: 32 MB
    • Asian Plus Pack - Japanese: 1.6 GB
    • Asian Plus Pack - Korean: 8 MB
    • Core Names: 1.1 GB

  • The minimum memory requirement for the Machine Learning Module is 1 GB RAM. The allocation (java process – jvm memory) should be three to four times the size of the input file used in jobs where models are created.

    To increase the JVM memory of the Machine Learning Module, open the %install_home%\server\modules\machinelearning\java.vmargs file and set the -Xmx and -Xms parameters so that -Xmx is three to four times the size of the input file used in jobs where models are created, for example:

    -Xmsdefinitionm -Xmxdefinitiong

Additional Requirements

  • Windows administrator rights are required to install .
  • In order to use the enhanced system tray notification application the server must have .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (also known as 3.5.1) or higher. Current versions of Windows Server come with the required version of .NET Framework.

System Requirements for Enterprise Geocoding and Global Geocoding modules

  • The Enterprise Geocoding Module and Global Geocoding Module system requirements:
    • minimum: 16 GB RAM, 4 CPU, 100 GB storage
    • recommended 32 GB RAM, 8 CPU, 200 GB storage, sufficient for all datasets.

The amount of RAM will depend on how many users on the sytem and how many datasets are loaded.

Requirements for the Big Data Integration Module

For the stages using Hadoop, which are Read from Hive File, Read from Hadoop Sequence, Write to Hadoop Sequence, and Write to Hive File, and for the activities Run Hadoop MapReduce Job and Run Hadoop Pig:
  • Hadoop version 2.6 and above
For the activities using Spark, which are Submit Spark Job and Spark Sorter:
  • Spark 2.0.1 and above.