System Requirements

Before installing BarraCUDA, please ensure that your computer has:

- A modern x86-based processor

- 8 GB of system memory (for large genomes)

- At least 50 GB of disk space (for large genomes and large sequencing libraries)

- An NVIDIA Kepler GPU with at least 1GB RAM (see below) and CUDA capability of 3.0 or above

- A Tesla K20 or above is recommended for large genomes

- A Linux/UNIX operating system

VRAM Requirements

BarraCUDA needs a video memory space of at least the size of the BWT-encoded genome
(the size of .bwt + .rbwt files)+ another 675 MB of buffer to perform alignments.

Software Requirements

The software also requires:

- NVIDIA CUDA toolkit SDK version 6 or above

- GCC and G++ Version 4.5 or above

- NVIDIA graphics driver version 340 or above

- zlib-devel (or zlib1g-dev) library