Minimum System Requirements

SEISMASTER^® runs under a wide range of operating systems as it is written in Java. The minimum requirements for the various systems are:

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• Windows Systems

  •  Microsoft Windows^®  2000, Windows^®  XP or Windows^®  Vista
  •  Pentium IV / 1.4 GHz processor
  •  512 MB RAM
  •  Graphics Card Accelerator (64 MB ) with OpenGL 1.3 support, e.g. RADEON or MATROX 
  •  SVGA true color display
  •  Java2 JRE1.6.0 or later, Java3D 1.5.1 (both supplied with SEISMASTER^®) and OpenGL 1.3 or later

     available from your graphics card manufacturer.

  •  50 MB free disk for Java JRE and Java 3D
  •  70 MB additional free disk space for sample data
  •  CD-ROM drive.

• Linux Systems
  • They must be of similar configuration to the Windows Systems and they must have Java2 JRE1.6.0, Java 3D 1.5.1 (both supplied with SEISMASTER^®)  and OpenGL 1.3, installed.
  • Graphics adapter with driver that supports the GLX extension: GLX 1.3 or later and OpenGL 1.3 or later. A graphics adapter with OpenGL 1.2 support will work, but with reduced texture mapping functionality
   

• Solaris Systems

  • Solaris 9 or higher with necessary patches installed.

  • 512 MB RAM

  • A Frame buffer with with OpenGL 1.3 support or better (XVR-600, XVR-1200, Expert3D, etc.). A frame buffer with OpenGL 1.2 support will work, but with reduced texture mapping functionality.

  • Sun OpenGL for Solaris/SPARC, version 1.3 (or later).

  • Java2 JRE1.6.0 or later,  Java3D 1.5.1 (both supplied with SEISMASTER^®)

  • 30 MB free disk space for SEISMASTER^®, Java JRE and Java 3D.

  • 70 Mb additional free disk space for sample data

  • CD-ROM drive

   

• Other Unix Systems

  • They must be of similar configuration to the Solaris Systems and they must have Java2 JRE 1.6.0 or later, Java 3D 1.5.1 or later and OpenGL 1.3 or later, installed.  

   

• Mac Systems

  • PowerMac G5 1.6 GHz or higher

  • Mac OS X 10.3 or later operating system

  • 512 MB RAM

  • Graphics Card Accelerator (64 MB+) with OpenGL 1.3 support, e.g. Nvidia FX 5200 or ATI Radeon 9600.

  • Java2 1.6.0 or later from Apple and Java3D 1.5.1 (supplied with SEISMASTER^® )

  • 1280 x 960 or higher resolution display  

  • 30 MB free disk space for SEISMASTER^® and Java 3D.

  • 70 MB additional free disk space for sample data

  • CD-ROM drive

Recommended System

While you can run SEISMASTER^®  with the minimum requirements listed above, we recommend that you run it on a computer that meets or exceeds the requirements below:

Processor                   Pentium IV 2.0 GHz, Ultra Sparc or PowerMac G5  

System Memory         1.0 GB or more, 128 MB Video RAM

Monitor/Display          19” Dual Monitors, 1280 x 1024 resolution

Hardware requirements are determined by the size of the data and the expected performance.

Example

A  seismic volume with a size of 1005 in-lines x 1953 cross-lines x 1000 samples (4 byte data) totaling 8.1 GB has been viewed with acceptable performance on a development PC with an AMD Athlon XP1900+ processor (1.61 GHz), 1.0 GB RAM and a RADEON 8500 Graphics card with 64 MB Video RAM, and on a DELL Inspiron 8200 Laptop with similar configuration, both running Windows XP.