# Single Cell Toolkit System Requirements

* [Up to 100,000 cells per analysis](#up-to-100000-cells-per-analysis)
* [More than 100,000 cells per analysis](#more-than-100000-cells-per-analysis)

Because of the large size of single cell RNA-Seq data sets and the computationally-intensive tools used in single cell analysis, we have amended our system requirements and recommendations for installations of Partek Flow with the Single Cell toolkit.

## Up to 100,000 cells per analysis

#### Required

* Linux: Ubuntu® 18.04, Redhat® 8, CentOS® 8, or newer
* CPU: 64-bit 2 GHz quad-core processor
* Memory: 64 GB of RAM
* Local scratch space\*: 1 TB with cached or native speeds of 2GB/s or higher
* Storage: > 2 TB available for data and > 100 GB on the root partition

#### Recommended

* Linux: Ubuntu® 18.04, Redhat® 8, CentOS® 8, or newer
* CPU: 64-bit 2 GHz quad-core processor
* Memory: 128 GB of RAM
* Local scratch space1: 2 TB with cached or native speeds of 2GB/s or higher
* Storage: > 2 TB available for data and > 100 GB on the root partition

## More than 100,000 cells per analysis

#### Required

* Linux: Ubuntu® 18.04, Redhat® 8, CentOS® 8, or newer
* CPU: 64-bit 2 GHz quad-core processor
* Memory: 256 GB of RAM
* Local scratch space1: 2 TB with cached or native speeds of 2GB/s or higher
* Storage: > 4 TB available for data

#### Recommended

* Linux: Ubuntu® 18.04, Redhat® 8, CentOS® 8, or newer
* CPU: 64-bit 2 GHz quad-core processor
* Memory: 512 GB of RAM
* Local scratch space1: 10 TB with cached or native speeds of 2GB/s or higher
* Storage: 10 TB available for data

For fastest performance:

* Newer generation CPU cores with avx2 or avx-512 are recommended.
* Performance scales proportionality to the number of CPU cores available.
* Hyper thread cores (threads) scales performance for most operations other than principal component analysis.

*\*Contact Partek support for recommended setup of local scratch storage*

## Additional Assistance

If you need additional assistance, please visit [our support page](http://www.partek.com/support) to submit a help ticket or find phone numbers for regional support.