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Recommendedhardwarerequirements
Duetoitsversatility,OLConnectisusedforawidevarietyofapplications.Consequently,itisdifficultto
determinewhichhardwareconfigurationwillproducethebestresultsforanygivenimplementation.
Thefollowingspecsshouldthereforebeviewedasageneralguidelinethatismostlikelytoproduce
expectedresultsformostimplementations.Youshould,however,keepinmindthatitmaynotrep-
resenttheoptimalsetupforyourparticularapplication.
Formoreinformationandtipsaboutperformanceconsiderations,see"PerformanceConsiderations"
onpage20.
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Filesystem:NTFS(FAT32isnotsupported)
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CPU:IntelCorei7-4770Haswellorbetter
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RAM:16GB
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DiskSpace:4GBforthesoftwaremodules,20GBforworkfiles*
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StorageType:SolidStateDrive(SSD)
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Networking:10GbEthernet
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ThisrequirementdependsupontheamountofdatayouprocessthroughOLConnect.Forinstance,
aPostScriptfilecontainingseveralthousandsofdocumentscouldeasilytakeupseveralGBs.
Note: AswithanyJAVAapplication,themoreRAMthatisavailable,thefasterPrintShopMail
Connectwillexecute.
RequirementsforindividualConnectmodules
OLConnectProductscomprisesmultiplemodulesthatcanbeoperatedseparatelyonmultiplePCs.
Eachmodulehasitsownsetofrequirementsthatmaydifferfromtheothermodules.Whilethehard-
warerequirementsdescribedabovearerelativelygenericwheninstallingallConnectmodulesona
singleserver,theyshouldnotbeinterpretedliterallyforeachindividualmodule.
WheninstallingonmultiplePCs,keepthefollowingrulesofthumbinmind:
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TheConnectWorkflowmodulerequireslessRAMbutfastharddriveaccess.Italsobenefitsfrom
fastmulti-coreCPUs,inordertorunprocessesinparallel.
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TheConnectServermodulerequiresmoreRAMandbenefitsfromfastmulti-coreCPUs.Disk
accessspeedislessofaconcern.
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TheConnectDesignermodulerequiresmoreRAMandfastdiskaccesstoprovidearesponsive
user-experience.
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