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SYBYL System Requirements

SYBYL®-X requires the following:

  Windows®  Linux® 

 OS

 Windows XP  RedHat Enterprise Linux version 4 or 5
 CPU  Pentium IV or higher  1.0+ GHz minimum
 Memory  2 GB  2 GB
 Swap Space (MB)

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 500+ MB
 Screen Resolution  1280x 1024  1280x 1024
 Graphics Card  NVidia Quadro or better strongly recommended  NVidia Quadro or better strongly recommended

1). Intel x86-compatible processors running at 1.0 GHz or better. 
          Note:  The 32-bit compatibility layer provided as an optional part of the RedHat installation process must be installed to run SYBYL on 64-bit Linux machines. This compatibility layer is comprised of the following packages: libXmu, libXpm, and libXp.

2). This is a recommended minimum. Greater processing power, higher speed processor, and more memory are all recommended for any heavy duty use.

The following amounts of space are needed:

   Windows®  Linux®  
 Software Installation   1.2 GB  1.7 GB
 Database Installation    
  •   PRODAT
   1.03 GB   1.09 GB
  •  Advanced Protein Modeling (includes FUGE)
  10.9 GB  12.88 GB

SYBYL® 8.1 remains available for Mac OS® X users and requires the following: 
  • OS: OS X 10.5.4
  • CPU: 2.4 GHz
  • Memory: 2 GB
  • Swap Space (MB): 500 +
  • Screen Resolution: 1280x1024

1. Updates to SYBYL 8.0 were not supported on RHEL 3.x. Users must upgrade their OS prior to upgrading their SYBYL installation to v8.0.1 or higher.

2. Intel x86-compatible processors running at 1.0 GHz or better.  Tripos does not support running SYBYL on Intel Itanium processors. 

3. This is a recommended minimum. Greater processing power, higher speed processor, and more memory are all recommended for any heavy duty use.

The following amounts of space are needed:

Software Installation Default Option (all platforms, same directory) 3.17 GB
  Default Option (IRIX platform) 1.79 GB
  Default Option (Linux platform) 1.77 GB
Database Installation Sample 2 MB
  NCI 307 MB
  PRODAT 1.09 GB
  Advanced Protein Modeling (includes FUGUE) 12.88 GB