What are the system requirements for running EDEM?


 

COMPONENT

 

MINIMUM

 

RECOMMENDED

 

RAM

 

8 GB

 

32 GB or more

 

Processor

Intel Core i7

Intel Xeon Processor Family (8+ cores)

AMD Ryzen 7

Intel Core i9

Intel Xeon Processor Family (16+ cores)

AMD Ryzen Threadripper

 

Graphics Display

 

Graphics Driver support for OpenGL 2.0 or later.

Any modern NVIDIA or AMD graphic card in the market which has display connectors.

Note. Some of the GPU Cards listed below do not have display connectors and are designed for processing only

 

 

 

CUDA GPU simulation*

CUDA enabled GPU with compute capability at least 3.5

Nvidia driver minimum version 11.0 of the CUDA toolkit

NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit Release Notes.

NVIDIA Volta GPU cards (e.g. V100)

NVIDIA Ampere GPU cards (e.g. A100)

NVIDIA Hopper GPU cards (e.g. H100)

Note: Only NVIDIA GPU cards support the EDEM CUDA GPU Solver.  Other NVIDIA GPU cards are supported within the ranges highlighted.

 

Hard Disk Space

 100 GB (4 GB for the software)

 1 TB or more for simulation data files

 

*CUDA GPU is required for simulations using Sphero-Cylinder and Polyhedral particles. Multi-Sphere simulations are supported on both CPU and CUDA GPU solvers.

 

 

SUPPORTED PLATFORMS

 

OS

 

Version

 

Architecture

 

Windows

 

10 (64-bit)

11 (64-bit) (EDEM 2022.3 onwards)

 

x86_64

 

Linux

 

RHEL / CentOS 8.4 SLES 15 SP3

 

x86_64

For further hardware information on EDEM please see:

To get started using EDEM: