The NIH/NIGMS
Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing

Basic system

  • OS: Windows (64 bit) or Mac OS X
  • CPU: Intel or AMD 64-bit processors
  • Graphics card: Nvidia or AMD graphics cards
  • System memory: 4GB
  • Display resolution: 1280 x 1024

Example high performance system(s)

  • OS: Windows 10 Pro
  • Motherboard: Asus 270-WS
  • CPU: Intel Core i7 7700K
  • Graphics card: Nvidia Geforce GTX 1080 Ti, Quadro P6000 (10-bit support), or AMD Radeon RX Vega, FirePro WX9100 (10-bit support)
  • System memory: 64 GB
  • RAID: 2x Samsung NVMe SSD 960 PRO 1TB in RAID0
  • Display: Dell UltraSharp UP2716D (10-bit support)

Note: Only matching professional-level graphics cards and displays can support 10-bit output. Refer to the FluoRender user's guide for setting 10-bit output.