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System Requirements for GeoDict

GeoDict can be used on a wide variety of hardware and operating system configurations, from mobile workstations or shared memory workstations to high-performance computing clusters. 

This page provides information on (a) minimum requirements, (b) typical configurations that work well (recommendations), and (c) high end systems (hardware and software combinations) for advanced users, available directly from Math2Market.

For perpetual licenses, the maintenance period may be prolonged for an additional year after the initial period. For leased licenses, the lease period is identical with the maintenance period. During the maintenance period, the user is also entitled to participate in the yearly GeoDict Innovation Conference without registration fee cost.

The maintenance includes the lease of a GeoDict viewer license. This viewer-license enables the user to open, view, and inspect GeoDict simulation results on an additional computer during the maintenance period.

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(A) Minimum Requirements

CPU

The minimum requirement is any CPU from either Intel or AMD with AVX2 instructions

  • Intel: since Haswell, 2013
  • AMD: since Excavator, 2015

The use on multi-core systems with a lot of main memory enables efficient modelling and simulation of extremely large and therefore relevant morphologies.
Whether on single laptops or workstations with multi-core processors or over distributed computer systems with the Message Passing Interface (MPI) - you benefit from the scalability of GeoDict.

Graphics hardware

The graphical user interface (GUI) of GeoDict requires a graphics card and an operating system that supports OpenGL 2.0 or newer. A graphics card from NVIDIA®  with Cuda® Cores and including ‘compute capability’ >= 7.5 is needed for the following functionalities::

  • Perform AI-segmentation with U-Net in ImportGeo-Vol
  • Use neural networks from FiberFind-AI (identify fibers) and GrainFind-AI (identify binder)
  • Training of own neural networks and use of advanced AI tools in GeoDict-AI, e.g. for FiberFind-AI and GrainFind-AI

This is satisfied by Nvidia RTX 2060 and above, and is only strictly required from GeoDict 2026 onwards.

Operating systems

Math2Market GmbH guarantees that the current GeoDict release is always compatible with the following operating systems:

  • Microsoft® Windows 10 (64 bit) or 11 for Current Business Branch (CBB)
    More about Ready-for-Windows promise
  • Linux (64 bit) glibc 2.17 (e.g. Red Hat 7)
    The best performance is achieved by GeoDict's high-performance version for 64-bit Linux-parallel computers.

Browser

Math2Market GmbH recommends the following browsers to access additional content, such as user manuals and tutorials:

  • Google Chrome™
  • Mozilla® Firefox®
  • Opera
  • Microsoft® Edge

RAM

The available RAM determines the size of the largest structures handled by GeoDict's algorithms and solvers. When working with large input datasets, large RAM is needed. As a minimum, the RAM should be larger than the dataset size.

Disk space

Required:  5 GB for the GeoDict installation

GeoDict itself requires about 5 GB of disk space. More storage space is needed to perform large experiments, such as filter life time experiments with FilterDict, and to store many results from different experiments.

(B) Recommended and Typical Workstations

Recommendations are difficult due to the diverse nature of GeoDict users and application types. In general, higher performance and faster computational times can be achieved with higher performance machines. Some recommendations are provided below.

  • 64-bit Intel or AMD multi-core processor
  • Recent Nvidia Graphics card with 8 Gb VRAM
  • 32 Gb RAM or more 
  • 1 Tb storage space for result files

The below specification is one typical laptop workstation, that works with decent performance. This is meant as an example and provides sufficient performance for regular day to day work with GeoDict.

(C) High-end Workstation Configurations available with pre-installed GeoDict

We offer high-end workstations for sale. 

GeoDict workstations are shipped with all required equipment, including external accessories needed for easy, safe, and reliable operation. These are high-end systems meant to handle large datasets and high-end computational requirements, usually only relevant to high-performance and large-scale organizational needs.

All three GeoDict systems shown below are directly available from Math2Market and include software maintenance (updates and support) for one year.