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All Cadcorp products are supplied in 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Cadcorp recommends that wherever possible, the appropriate architecture version matches the operating system. Cadcorp provides the following information as a guide for minimum and recommended hardware specifications.
Cadcorp SIS Desktop - MINIMUM
| Operating system | Windows® 8.1 or above | |
| Processor | 12th Generation Intel® Dual Core™ i5 processor | |
| Memory | 8 GB | |
| Disk -Installation | 4 GB for software installation | |
| Disk -Data | 100GB 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s (dependent on local storage) | |
Cadcorp SIS Desktop - RECOMMENDED
| Operating system | Windows® 11 (64-bit) | |
| Processor | 12th Generation Intel® Dual Core™ i9 Processor | |
| Memory | 16 GB | |
| Disk :Installation | 4 GB for software installation | |
| Disk :Data | 100GB Solid State Drive (dependent on local data storage) | |
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Graphics Card |
ASUS Radeon RX 560 4GB | |
Additional Information:
- Additional processor power will be required if performing a large number of queries and other processing tasks. Generally it is advantageous to use the most powerful processors with as much memory as possible on 64-bit architecture.
- SIS Desktop 9.1 utilises multi-threading support for some operations across multiple cores or processors.
- The minimum specification does not include a graphics card. PCs with on-board and low specification graphics cards should ensure that Map Drawing Engine is set to ‘Simple’ under Options - Drawing and Printing.
- The recommended specification includes a high specification graphics card. PCs using such graphics cards should ensure that Map Drawing Engine is set to ‘Hardware accelerated’ under Options - Drawing and Printing.
- Additional disk space will be required if storing data locally and SSD is recommended.
- Some datasets can use large amounts of memory. These include internal datasets, BDS files, some raster formats and point data not held in a spatial database.
- If the Cadcorp OS MasterMap Manager will be run on this device, this can require up to 200GB (for a national load) of temporary space to process the data for loading into the database
Using Virtual Machines
- GeognoSIS deployment on a Virtual Server requires specific licensing and Server setup requirements.
- Licensing for GeognoSIS on virtual machines is locked to the processors created by the virtual machine. You should build a virtual machine to match the processors for which you are licensed to run GeognoSIS.
- VMware allows logical processors and cores to be built, based on the host machine processor specification. A VMware server should be built to match the GeognoSIS licences; e.g. a single GeognoSIS licence can be run on a VMware server built with up to 32 or 64 logical processors and as many cores as allowed (determined by the host machine specification).
- Hyper-V creates logical cores without defining processors. In this case, GeognoSIS reads each logical core as a processor.
Network Licence Server
Concurrent licencing requires a network licence server to be installed onto a network accessible machine, ideally with a fixed IP address. All PC’s which use Cadcorp SIS Desktop will need access to this network licence server.