Analyze is a highly memory-intensive and processor-intensive application. In general, the more processing power and RAM that exists on the workstation, the better the performance of Analyze. We do not observe substantial performance differences of Analyze on different platforms that have similar hardware specifications.

Analyze 10.0requires the following minimum hardware specifications on all supported platforms:

• 200 MHz or better processor
• Network card
• CD-ROM drive
• 512 MB RAM
• 24/32-bit graphics capability
• 450 MB disk space

Analyze 9.0 is compatible with the following platforms and operating systems:

Windows Systems

• Windows 7
• Windows Vista (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Windows XP (32-bit and 64-bit)

UNIX Workstations

• Sun Microsystems (32-bit) workstations running Solaris 10+
• Sun Microsystems (64-bit) workstations running Solaris 10+

Linux Systems

• AMD64 Linux (64-bit) CentOS 4+ (or compatible)
• Intel Linux (32-bit) CentOS 4+ (or compatible)
• Intel Linux (Itanium 2 64-bit) SUSE 9+ (or compatible)

Macintosh Systems

• Mac (Intel 32-bit and 64-bit) OS X 10.5 +
• Mac (PowerPC 32-bit) OS X 10.3 +

+later operating systems supported if compatible with the OS listed above.

While Analyze will run adequately on systems that have the minimum specification, we find that Analyze runs practically every processing task extremely well on a system with dual processors and at least twice the RAM of the largest file size you are working with.