System requirements

Get the best performance from EDEM by choosing the right hardware.

EDEM Simulation for SAG mill with 20M particles
EDEM simulation including 20 million particles displayed by AMD FirePro V5800.

COMPONENTS

RAM

  • Minimum – 4 GB
  • Recommended – 12 GB or more

Processor

  • Minimum – Intel Core i7 or Intel Xeon 5600 series.
  • Recommended – Intel Xeon E5 series with a total of 12 cores or more.

Graphics

  • Minimum – AMD Radeon with 512MB, or NVIDIA GeForce with 512MB. Alternatively see GPU.
  • Recommended – AMD FirePro V5800, NVIDIA Quadro 2000. Alternatively see GPU.

GPU

  • Minimum – NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080, NVIDIA TITAN X, NVIDIA Quadro M6000, NVIDIA Quadro P6000, AMD Radeon R9 Nano, AMD Radeon R9 Fury  X.
  • Recommended – NVIDIA Quadro GP100 or card with equivalent double precision processing performance.

Hard Disk Space

  • Minimum – 10 GB (2 GB for the software).
  • Recommended – 500 GB or more for simulation data files.

SUPPORTED PLATFORMS

  • Windows 7 – 64 bit
  • Windows 8 – 64-bit
  • Windows 10 – 64-bit
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 – 64 bit
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux 7 – 64 bit

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