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System Requirements

ecerami edited this page May 5, 2015 · 12 revisions

Introduction

This page describes various system software required to run the cBioPortal.

Hardware

Hardware requirements will vary depending on the volume of users you anticipate will access your cBioPortal instance. As a guideline, we run cbioportal.org on an Intel Xeon 2.60GHz/8-core processor with 64GB of RAM. The public database consumes ~11 GB of disk space.

MySQL

As of this writing, the cBioPortal software runs properly on MySQL version 5.0.x. The software can be found and downloaded from the MySQL website.

Apache Tomcat

As of this writing, the cBioPortal runs properly on Apache Tomcat version 6 and above. The software can be found and downloaded from the Apache Tomcat website.

Java

As of this writing, the cBioPortal can be compiled and run from Java 7.0 and above. The software can be found and download from the Oracle website.

Apache Maven

The cBioPortal source code is an Apache Maven driven project. The software needs to be downloaded and installed prior to building the application from source code. It can be found on the Apache Maven website.