System Requirements for Client Computer

The following are the system requirements for the hardware and the software to the client computers, which must be met for correct installation and work of Foresight Analytics Platform. Software requirements are different for work in desktop and web applications.

Hardware Requirements

	Minimum requirements	Recommended requirements
Processor	Clock frequency 2 GHz and higher	2 kernels, clock frequency 2.40 GHz and higher
Platform bitness	32-bit	64-bit
RAM memory	1 Gb and more	2 Gb and more
Video adapter	Video adapters DirectX 10 with the WDDM 1.0 driver or later version, with resolution 1024x768 or higher and with 64 Mb or more video memory	Video adapters supporting Shader Model 3.0, such as: Nvidia GeForce 6600 or later. ATI Radeon X1300 or later. Intel G35 (GMA X3500) chipset, Intel G4x, Q4x or later. Video adapters supporting hardware-software architecture CUDA if it is supposed to be used.
HDD	Free space 16 GB* or more	Free space 20 GB* or more.

* - Free space is given including the space needed to cache objects and data. By default, temporary files are unpacked to the disk, to which the operating system is installed. The temporary files location is determined in the TMP environment variable.

Software On Working Via Web Application

	Software
Browser	Three latest browser versions are supported: Mozilla Firefox. Google Chrome. Opera. Apple Safari for Mac OS X. Microsoft Internet Explorer. Microsoft Edge. Sputnik.
OS	Any versions of operating systems where supported browser versions work that are specified above.

NOTE. If Foresight Analytics Platform web application is supposed to be used in the work, DBMS front end is not necessary.

Software On Working Via Desktop Application

	Software
DBMS	Front End of Used DBMS: Postgres Pro, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Teradata. Before installing the front end, study the list of supported DBMS versions. NOTE. To correctly connect to Oracle, PostgreSQL DBMS, bitness of Foresight Analytics Platform and Oracle DBMS front and must match. Built-In SQLite DBMS 3.X. The required driver is included to the selected distribution file in software package of Foresight Analytics Platform.
Operating system	Windows 7 Service Pack 1 family. Windows 8 family. Windows 8.1 family. Windows 10 family. Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 family. Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 family. Windows Server 2012 family. Windows Server 2012 R2 family. Windows Server 2016 family. NOTE. To provide correct work of Foresight Analytics Platform, color depth value must be at least 16 bit.
Video adapter drivers	The latest version of the driver for the installed video adapter.
Add-in software	Depending on the add-ins in use, the client computer must have: Microsoft Excel. Microsoft PowerPoint. Microsoft Word. Supported versions are Microsoft Office 2010 SP1 (14.0.6029.1000 - 14.0.7015.1000) or later, Microsoft Office 2013, Microsoft Office 365.
Software for Tree Map, Bubble Tree, Bubble Chart and Map visualizers	Graphics libraries: DirectX 9 or later or OpenGL 3.1 or later (provided with Windows OS).
Software for CUDA use	CUDA Toolkit 7.0. Installation is required if video adapter supports hardware-software architecture CUDA.