bcl2fastq Conversion Software Computing Requirements

 

v1.8.4

v2.19

Network Infrastructure

High-throughput Ethernet connection, at least 1 Gigabit, recommended High-throughput Ethernet connection, at least 1 Gigabit, recommended

Server Configuration

Single multiprocessor, multicore computer running Linux, or a cluster of Linux servers with a head node

Recommended cluster configuration: SGE

Single multiprocessor or a multicore computer running Linux

Operating System

CentOS 5 recommended

May be possible to install and run on other 64-bit Linux distributions or Unix variants

CentOS 6 (or later) or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 recommended

May be possible to install and run on other 64-bit Linux distributions or Unix variants

Memory Requirements 2 GB RAM per core 32 GB RAM
Software Requirements
  • GNU make (3.81 recommended)
  • Perl (≥ 5.8)
  • Libxslt
  • libxslt-devel
  • libxml2
  • libxml2-devel
  • gcc (4.0.0 or newer, except 4.0.2), with c++
  • ImageMagick
  • bzip2
  • bzip2-devel
  • zlib
  • zlib-devel
  • zlib
  • librt
  • libpthread
  • gcc 4.7 (with support for c++11)
  • boost 1.54 (with its dependencies)
  • CMake 2.8.9