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Regardless of whether Partek^® Flow^® is installed on a server or the cloud, users will be interacting with the software using a web browser. We support the latest Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Apple Safari browsers. While we make an effort to ensure that Partek Flow is robust, note that some browser plugins may affect the way the software is viewed on your browser.

Hardware Requirements (Single-node Linux

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If you are installing Partek Flow on your own single-node server, we require the following for successful installation:

• Linux: Ubuntu^® 12 18.04, Redhat^® 6¹ 8, CentOS^® 6, or newer
• Mac: OS X Yosemite 10.10 or newer
•  8 or later versions of these distributions
• 64-bit 2GHz quad-core processor²¹
• 48GB of RAM³²
• 1TB > 2TB of storage available for data/opt – 100GB of storage available for installation
• > 100GB on the root partition

• A broadband internet connection

¹We Highly recommend using Redhat^® 7 since 6 has been  in "Product retirement" since May 2017

²We support Docker-based installations. Please contact support@partek.com for more information. 

¹Note that some analyses have higher system requirements for example to run the STAR aligner on a reference genome of size ~3 GB (such as human, mouse or rat), 16 cores are required.

³²Input sample file size can also impact memory usage, which is particularly the case for TopHat alignments. For using our Single Cell Toolkit, analysis of multiple samples with over 5000 cells per sample will require at least 64 GB of memory. 

Increasing hardware resources (cores, RAM, disk space, and speed) will allow for faster processing of more samples.

If you are licensed for the Single Cell Toolkit, please see Single Cell Toolkit System Requirements for amended hardware requirements.

Hardware Requirements (Cluster or Cloud)

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• Store data on 'removable' USB drives. Partek Flow will not be able to see these drives.
• Store data across multiple partitions or folder locations. This will increase the maintenance burden substantially.
• Use non-Linux file systems like NTFS. 

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