System Requirements

CIAO is supported on a number of operating systems, which are listed on the Platform Support page. Certain system requirements are necessary to successfully install and run CIAO.

Linux | Mac OS X Intel

Linux

The 32-bit build of CIAO requires the basic 32-bit libraries to be installed, as explained in the Installing 32-bit CIAO on 64-bit Machines section of the Platform Support page.

Memory and Disk Space: Chandra data files are large, which implies that certain processing and analysis operations will work more efficiently when they have access to large amounts of RAM. We recommend a minimum of 500Mb main memory and disk space on the order of 1-2 GB.
X11R6: X11, the X window system.
OpenGL: ChIPS requires OpenGL, an interface for system graphics. OpenGL is part of the xlibs development package.
gzip: The GNU zip package.

Mac OS X Intel

The 32-bit build of CIAO requires the basic 32-bit libraries to be installed, as explained in the Installing 32-bit CIAO on 64-bit Machines section of the Platform Support page.

Memory and Disk Space: Chandra data files are large, which implies that certain processing and analysis operations will work more efficiently when they have access to large amounts of RAM. We recommend a minimum of 500Mb main memory and disk space on the order of 1-2 GB.
X11R6: X11, the X window system. OS X users should use the version of X11 that came with the operating system.
OpenGL: ChIPS requires OpenGL, an interface for system graphics. OpenGL is included in the Apple Developer tools.
gzip: The GNU zip package.